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 ...

From the earliest years, Hope College students have gained valuable lessons and attained goals beyond the classroom through athletics. And in so doing, they have added a stimulating dimension to ...

From Groningen and Overijssel they came — Hollanders, Bentheimers and Friesians joined the trek. Whether they were fleeing religious restrictions or seeking economic opportunity, intrepid and ...

A fully illustrated biography of A.C. Van Raalte (1811–1876), founder of a major settlement of Dutch immigrants to America. It discusses the causes for emigration, the hardships of travel to and ...

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 volume details the history of the sculpture of the Reverend Albertus C. Van Raalte, created in honor of the sesquicentennial of the city that he founded in 1847. Included are photographs of the ...

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 ...

There is a close relationship between highly successful Dutch American entrepreneurs and their Calvinist values and upbringing, and their success in business has led to major works of philanthropy.

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.

Margaret Doorenbos begins her story in 1965 when her family arrived on the little desert island of Bahrain. I remember well the moment the Doorenbos family joined the Arabian Mission, in what we ...

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 ...

Edwin and Ruth Stegenga Luidens, still in their early twenties, set sail in October 1944 from Philadelphia for mission work in the Middle East. While World War II raged in Europe, they hopscotched ...