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colleagues presentedhim with a festschrift, DUTCH-AMERICAN STUDIES:

ESSAYS IN HONOR OF ROBERT P. SWIERENGA(Amsterdam: VU Press,

2000). This was quite a way to celebrate his 65th birthday. Congratulations!

Paul R. Waibel (Belhaven College) is the author ofQUIKNOTES:

CHRISTIAN HISTORY, published by Tyndale House.It is a concise and

comprehensive survey of church through the 20th centuryintended for the

layman. Paul has also published BELHAVEN COLLEGE (Arcadia), acollection

of over 200 historic pictures from the archives of Belhaven College.

8. Lee Cheek, Jr (Lee University), recentlyedited POLITICAL
   
   PHILOSOPHY AND CULTURAL RENEWAL,available from Transaction
   
   Publishers (Rutgers University).

Richard Kyle (TaborCollege) recently completed a stay at a Fulbright

Scholar at the National University of Kiev-Mohyla Academy in theUkraine.

He published 'The Occult Roars Back: ItsModern Resurgence," DIRECTION

29, no. 2 ( 2000 ), 91-99 and gave two papers, on "The Role of Religion in

America." andon "Religious Pluralism in America." at the American Studies in

Ukraine conference in Kiev in ths summer of 2000.

Alan Kreider is theauthor of THE CHANGE OF CONVERSION AND

THE ORIGIN OF CHRISTENDOM (Harrisburg PA:Trinity Press

International, 1999). As of summer 2000, he has relocated to Elkhart IN.

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public universities overseas to teach? Whetherfor one semester, one year or

for a career, International Institute for Christian Studiesis committed to

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