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 ...

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, ...

“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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The celebration of the bicentennial of the birth of Albertus C. Van Raalte in October 2011 provided a distinct opportunity to evaluate the enduring legacy of one of the best-known Dutch immigrants of ...

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 ...

The story of the Ottawa Indians is told primarily through the diaries and memoirs of missionaries George and Arvilla Smith. “This book is a welcome addition to the documentary history of western ...

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

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 ...

From Groningen and Overijssel they came — Hollanders, Bentheimers and Friesians joined the trek. Whether they were fleeing religious restrictions or seeking economic opportunity, intrepid and ...