Reinder Bruinsma | 13 March 2024 | I had heard the name of Sister Bertken but knew little about her. That changed when I attended a meeting of the Dutch Society for Church History, where the program was a lecture about Sister Bertken. It was a fascinating story. Sister Bertken was born in 1457 as […]
by Reinder Bruinsma | 28 February 2024 | I don’t scare easily, but I recall like yesterday how terrified I was. It happened in the mid-1980s when I worked in Yaoundé, the capital city of Cameroon, about 250 kilometers from the coast. I was the manager of the Imprimerie Adventiste, the denominational publishing house and […]
by Reinder Bruinsma | 7 February 2024 | This essay is about life and death, and about life after death. It is an intimate and personal topic, because it touches directly on my own life and inevitable death. I know that I am alive. The fact that I am writing this is sufficient proof […]
by Reinder Bruinsma | 2 January 2024 On Tuesday mornings I can usually be found in the basement of the office of the Netherlands Union of Seventh-day Adventists. I am one of a small number of volunteers who are steadily working on building and optimizing the denominational archive in our country. Documents from the past […]
