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Supporters of Women’s Ordination Collection, 1977-2008

Collection Overview

Title: Supporters of Women’s Ordination Collection, 1977-2008

ID: COLL/503

Extent: 2.0 Boxes

Arrangement: Folder level description

Abstract

An ad hoc group of individuals who supported the ordination of women in the Christian Reformed Church. The collection includes interviews, articles, reports, devotion booklet, calendar, papers, news clippings, a banner, custom T-shirts, Cloud of Witnesses events, synodical  materials, and conference materials regarding women in office.

Box and Folder Listing

Box 1
Folder 1: Material Regarding Conference on the CRC in Canada --- November 1979
Folder 2: Material Regarding Decisions of Synod --- 1992
Folder 3: Letter to Synod from Marie Boersma Vander Ark --- 1985
Folder 4: Synod Press Release RE: Women --- 1993
Folder 5: Material Regarding: Decisions of Synod --- 1994
Folder 6: Material Regarding Petition Sent to Synod --- 2000
Folder 7: "Cloud of Witnesses" event materials --- 2007
Folder 8: Interviews for "History of Women in the CRC" --- 2008

Boot, Joel

Brink, Emily

Cok, Vicki

DeJong, James

DeMoor, Henry

DeVries, Frank

Diephouse, Evelyn

Evenhouse, Neva

Flikkema, Joan

Grissen, Lillian

Hofman, Ruth

Hoksbergen, Al

Hugen, Mel & Sylvia

Huizenga, Nick & Joan

Hulst, Mary

Johnson, Sandy

Knoppers, Barthie

Konyndyk, Irene

Kuyvenhoven, Andrew

Leunk, Thea

Likkel, Lynn

Lopers, Rosanne et. al.

Mahaffy, Cheryl

Oudyk-Suk, Irene

Pereboom, Pieter

Peterson, Mary

Plantinga, Cornelius (Neal)

Posthumns, Katheryn et. al.

Rienstra, Marchiene

Rietkerk, Eleanor

Roeda, Jack

Suk, John

Van Dyk, Leanne

Van Hammersveld, Dorothy & Dale

Van Harn, Roger

Van Wyk, Lucy et. al.

Vanden Berg, Sophie

Vander Grift, Kathy

Vander Laan, Betty

Vander Laan, Rika et. al.

Vander Venen, Mary

VanMilligen, Lesli & Tom

VanTil, Marian

Vergrigge, Verlyn

Vissor, Louise

Witvoet, Bert & Alice

Zwart, Willemina

Folder 9: Grand Rapids Press articles by Charles Honey --- 2008
Folder 10: Committee for Women in the CRC Steering Committee minutes --- undated
Folder 11: Report of the Committee Appointed to Deal with Tensions in First CRC Calgary --- 1978
Folder 12: Articles Regarding Women in Office --- 1986, 1991

"A Double Standard?" by Raymond Sikkema in Christian Renewal, 1986

"Women in Office in the Christian Reformed Church," by Andrew Kuyvenhoven, 1991

Letter to the Editors of The Outlook by Andrew Kuyvenhoven, undated

Folder 13: Articles of Incorporation of the Committee of Concerned CRC Members and Suggested Synod Agenda --- undated
Folder 14: Paper: "Reformed Faith and the Global Church" --- undated
Folder 15: Devotional Booklet: "Transformed Lives" --- undated
Folder 16: Papers by Amy Plantinga Pauw --- undated

"A Natural Theology of Revelation"

"Nicene Christology and Woman Wisdom"

"Qohet's Word to the Missional Church"

Folder 17: Newsclippings --- 1977-2008
Folder 18: CD Listing

HHD01134 - Edmonton Interviews: Mahaffy, Cheryl; Visser, Louise; Knoppers-Boon, Barthie, 2008

HHD01135 - Women in the CRC: Oral History Project, 2008

HHD01136 - Osterhaven Lecture Series: Amy Pauw on "Qohelet's Word to the Missional Church," 2008

HHD01137 - Osterhaven Lecture Series: Amy Pauw on "A Natural Theology of Revelation," 2008

HHD01138 - Osterhaven Lecture Series: Amy Pauw on "Nicene Christology and Woman Wisdom," 2008

Box 2
Item 1: Banners and T-shirts
Item 2: Audio Recordings of Interviews for "History of Women in the CRC" --- 2008

10 CDs

See Box 1, folder 8 for list of speakers