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/_ 
(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.