“By any measure, Tena Huizenga lived a remarkable life, a life of service to humankind in the name of her Lord. Herein is her story of 17 adventurous years as a missionary nurse in the hinterlands of ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Here is a heart-warming and soul-touching story of personal calling and mission endeavor, world travel and geography, history and politics, human frailty and profound resilience, and clashing empires ...

Edited by Earl Wm. Kennedy, Donald A. Luidens, and David Zwart This collection of papers from the Twenty-First Biennial Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Dutch American Studies, ...

Nicolaus Martin Steffens is a fine illustration of the discontinuous aspect of the Reformed tradition. He stood in this tradition like Melchizedek, with no Reformed teachers at whose feet he could sit ...

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 ...

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 ...