Notes from a Byzantine-Rite Calvinist

03 March 2004

REC news

The Reformed Ecumenical Council, which unites some 10 million Reformed Christians around the world, publishes regular news reports from member churches. According to their latest, not everyone is happy with the forthcoming merger of the three Dutch churches into the Protestantse Kerk in Nederland. In both the Nederlandse Hervormde Kerk, the historic national church, and the smaller Gereformeerde Kerken in Nederland, there are groups with principial objections to the merger.

Further south, not all French citizens are pleased with the proposed law to ban headscarves in public buildings. In particular, Jean-Arnold de Clermont, President of the French Protestant Federation, has spoken out against the measure.

Finally, the Anglican Church in Uganda disinvited the Episcopal Church in the US from sending a representative to the installation of its new archbishop in January. The dividing issue is the recent approval of Eugene Robertson as the first openly homosexual bishop in the Episcopal Church.

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David Koyzis, Global Scholar

David Koyzis is a Global Scholar with Global Scholars Canada. His work for this organization sees him delivering online lectures, recording remote courses, being interviewed for radio programmes and podcasts, and engaging in conversations with readers of his books around the world.

David holds the PhD in government and international studies from the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of the award-winning Political Visions and Illusions (2019), We Answer to Another: Authority, Office, and the Image of God (2014), and multiple scholarly and popular articles.

His new book, Citizenship Without Illusions: A Christian Guide to Political Engagement, is now available from IVP, local bookstores, and the many online vendors.

David currently writes for First Things, Christian Courier, Kuyperian Commentary, and Cateclesia Forum. He has maintained this blog since 2003. He taught undergraduate political science at Redeemer University College for thirty years.

David is the recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012 and the Canada 150 Flamborough-Glanbrook Nation Builder Award in 2017.

David has enjoyed a growing relationship with the Christian community in Brazil, which he visited in 2016 and where the second Brazilian edition of Visões e Ilusões Políticas (2021) was published by Edições Vida Nova in São Paulo. He has delivered many remote lectures to audiences in Brazil in recent years on subjects related to his two books.

A Spanish translation, Visiones e Ilusiones Políticas, was published in 2022.

David's interests are many and varied, but he takes special interest in the biblical Psalter. He recently completed a 36-year-long project of setting the 150 Psalms to verse to be sung to their proper melodies in the 16th-century Genevan Psalter. He is also engaged in another ongoing project which he has named The Niagara Psalter. His Genevan Psalter blog can be found here.

Born near Chicago of Greek-Cypriot and American parents, David now lives with his family in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.