“It is an informative and fascinating read, and it is past time that someone penned an account of this most extraordinary event. That the Pull has survived at Hope College for well over a century, ...

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

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 ...

Read summaries of the projects and activities that VRI Research Fellows are carrying out. Within each annual report, VRI research fellows detail their current research and publication projects, as ...

A tribute to Dr. Jacob E. Nyenhuis, scholar, servant, leader. Thirty-six authors tell the story of Jack's personal character and his distinction as a scholar and leader in academia, with two chapters ...

Dr. Paul G. Fried (1919–2006), professor of history and director of international education at Hope College (Holland, Michigan), often spoke of writing a memoir of his family’s World War II ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Edited by Donald A. Luidens, Donald J. Bruggink, and Herman J. De Vries Jr. Sola scriptura, decreed the Reformers, and thereby launched a literacy frenzy. The newly christened “priesthood of all ...