The
Reformed Church Center of New Brunswick Theological Seminary, New Brunswick,
N.J. will co-host an event titled The Colonial Clergy Conference: Dutch
Traditions and American Realities with the Collegiate Church of New York,
the Van Raalte Institute in Holland, Michigan, the Roosevelt Study Center in
Middelburg, Netherlands, and the Reformed Church in America Archives. Planned as
part of a larger celebration this year of Henry Hudson’s voyage for the Dutch to
the Hudson River and New
York, it is an international event on
twosites.
The
conference will be held September 27-28th
at the Haworth Center at Hope College
in Holland, Michigan and October 24th at First Reformed
Church, 9 Bayard St.,
New Brunswick, N.J.
Additional information about registration, etc. can be found on the website: http://www.nbts.edu/clergyconference/
In Holland,
Michigan, the speakers will be Dr. Leon van den
Broeke, Assistant Professor in Religion, Law and Society and Director of the
Center for Religion and Law at Free University in Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Dr. Willem Frijhof,
Emeritus Professor of Early Modern History at Free University; Dr. Hans
Krabbendam, Assistant Director of the Roosevelt Study Center in Middelburg, The
Netherlands; Dr. Earl Wm. Kennedy, Senior Research Fellow and Professor of
Religion Emeritus at Northwestern College in Orange City, Iowa; Dr. Firth Haring
Fabend, Fellow of the New Netherland Project and Historian for The Holland
Society of New York,; and Dr. John Coakley, L. Russell Feakes Memorial Chair and
Professor of Church History at New Brunswick Theological
Seminary.
Speakers in New
Brunswick, New Jersey will include
Dr. Leon van den Broeke; Dr. Joyce Goodfriend, Professor of History at the
University of Denver; Dr. John Coakley; Dr. Dirk Mouw, past Albert
A. Smith Fellow at New Brunswick Theological Seminary; Dr. Firth Haring Fabend,
and Dr. Robert Naborn, Director of the Dutch Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania. Also included in the day is
a tour of the church’s historic cemetery and bell tower, lunch, and an
opportunity to order a book which will be based on the papers presented. First
Reformed Church was founded in 1717 and the current building dates to
1765.