The controversy over dropping the word Dutch from the name of the Reformed Church

The Reformed Church in America has been known by a bewildering variety of names during its long history. When first established on American soil by Dutch settlers in 1628, it was commonly called the Hervormde Kerk, or Reformed Church, after the mother church in Holland. With the fall of New Netherland to England in 1664, it became popular to refer to American religious groups by their ethnic origins, such as the English Church, the Scottish Church, the Dutch Church, and so forth. Following ecclesiastical independence from the Hervormde Kerk in 1772 and the outbreak of the American Revolution a... Mehr ...