Edited by Robert P. Swierenga, Nella Kennedy and Lisa Zylstra Since the mid-nineteenth century, the successful prosecution of American wars involved the entire population. Wars had become total, ...

Family Quarrels focuses on the religious history of the Dutch Calvinist emigration from the Netherlands to West Michigan and the church struggles of the early settlers. It explores the reasons that ...

Generation Spark gives church leaders a research-based action plan to not only retain youth (ages 16–24) and adults (ages 45 and older) but also attract and fully integrate them into the life and ...

The role of Dutch American immigration to and settlement in Wisconsin — in contrast to the accounts of the Dutch in Michigan and Iowa — has been overlooked or minimized over the years. Early ...

“Dickason fleshes out this… biography with background material on the complex interactions among Arab society, Omani tribal and religious politics, missionary initiatives, and British imperial ...

There has always been music at Hope College. Indeed, making music has been so pervasive, it is a wonder that Hope students have had time to do anything else. But if, as in the words of the student ...

The celebration of the bicentennial of the birth of Albertus C. Van Raalte in October 2011 provided a distinct opportunity to evaluate the enduring legacy of one of the best-known Dutch immigrants of ...

An international conjoined course with students participating from Hope, Lebanon and Slovakia, this South Africa study-tour provides a holistic view of transformation and reconciliation processes in ...

The fifteen essays in this festschrift pay homage to a colleague, mentor and friend, whose professional career has spanned more than fifty years. After retiring in 1992 as the Blekkink Professor ...

“This story is a beautiful testimony of generations of a community committed to educating children to love and serve God by loving their neighbor and doing the right thing. There are hard financial ...

Events of the early 1940s reverberated across the globe and through the young Boelkins family in West Michigan. Nazi Germany ravaged Europe and western Russia, and by 1941, England was under threat of ...

These ninety-four letters of Albertus C. Van Raalte, founder of Holland, Michigan, to Philip Phelps Jr., who became the first president of Hope College, are significant for two reasons in particular.