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Our purpose is to publish Christian writing that delights readers and engages the world in a Reformed Way.<\/p>

In 1951, a group of ministers and theologians in the Christian Reformed Church, recently home from World War II and frustrated with the restraints of traditional publishing within their denomination, began The Reformed Journal<\/em>. The original magazine was published by the Wm. B. Eerdmans company from 1951 to 1990. In the 1980s, the Reformed Church in America began its own publication called Perspectives: A Journal of Reformed Thought<\/em>. After the original Reformed Journal<\/em> stopped publication in 1990, the mantle was passed to Perspectives<\/em>. Over the years, Perspectives<\/em> became independent from the Reformed Church in America. In 2011, Perspectives<\/em> began a daily blog, called The Twelve<\/em>. In 2019, Perspectives<\/em> changed its name to the Reformed Journal<\/em> and moved entirely online.<\/p>

We\u2019re Reformed. We call ourselves generously Reformed\u2014meaning open, curious, progressive, more interested in building bridges than walls, while still standing in the historical line of Christian orthodoxy. Our roots and our community are predominantly in the Dutch Reformed community in North America-\u2014the Reformed Church in America and the Christian Reformed Church in North America-\u2014but people with all sorts of backgrounds, beliefs, and locales participate in our community.<\/p>

Today\u2019s digital Reformed Journal<\/em> is independent of any denomination or institution and governed by a Board of Trustees and managed by a group of editors<\/a>. We stand on the shoulders of both the original Reformed Journal<\/em> and Perspectives Journal<\/em>.<\/p>

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