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City:Holland's First Twenty-Five Years," ORIGINS, Vol. 16 (1998), Nr. 2,

pp. 11-16; "Decisions, Decisions:Turning Points in the Founding of

Holland," MICHIGAN HISTORICAL REVIEW, Vol. 24 (1998), Spring,pp.

48-72; and "Van Raalteand Scholte:A Soured Relationship and Personal

Rivalry," in THE SESQUICENTENNIALOF DUTCH IMMIGRATION

[Holland MI:Joint Archives of Holland and the A. C. Van Raalate

Institute, 1997), pp. 29-45.

The book ROMANIANPOLITICS, 1859-1871 by Paul E. Michelson

(Huntington College) was named by by CHOICE Magazine ofthe ALA as

"An Outstanding Academic Book for 1998). Hespent some (probably

deserved) time in a Romanian concentrationcamp this summer, giving a

paper at the SighetMemorial Conference on the Victims of Communism

in Romania. He has beennamed associate editor of the NEW

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ROMANIAN STUDIES, publishedin

Romania by the Romanian Cultural Foundation.

Mark Elliotthas been named director of the Beeson Divinity

School's Global Center at SamfordUniversity AL. THE EAST-WEST

CHURCH ANDMINISTRY REPORT, edited by Prof. Elliott, is now also

located at Beeson. Theirnew eMail address=EWCMReport@samford.edu;

their website is at www.samford.edu/groups/global/global.htm.

John D. Roth (Goshen College)delivered the 1999 Inaugural Schrag

Lectures at Messiah Collegeon the theme of "Anabaptism in

Conversation with Contemporary Culture."The lectures are namedin

honor of Martin Schrag, a charter member ofthe CFH who retired from

Messiah College in 1985.

Mark Sidwell (Bob Jones University)has published THE DIVIDING

LINE: UNDERSTANDING AND APPLYING BIBLICALSEPARATION

(Bob Jones University Press), a theological andhistorical apologetic for the

Fundamentalist position writtenon a popular level. His H-Net review of

Ron Wells, ed., HISTORY AND THE CHRISTIANHISTORIAN (1998)