243pp., paperback, (Cape Town), 2020

Former minister and theologian Frits Gaum was one of 12 members who took the Dutch Reformed Church to court over the General Synod's 2016 decision to reverse most of a 2015 decision to support same-sex unions. In 2019, a secular court overturned the 2016 decision

"Wat ŉ uiters lesenswaardige boek! Getrou aan sy roeping en aard neem Frits Gaum sy leser op reis met die NG Kerk die afgelope klompie dekades. Maar hy doen baie meer as dit. Die boek is ŉ geloofspelgrimstog wat die leser nie net oor berge en dale voer nie, maar ook rig op ŉ reis na binne. Dit is ŉ tog van selfontdekking en van selfverantwoording. Die leser word as’t ware verplig om self standpunt in te neem deur oor uiters kontensieuse sake na te dink, maar – let wel – nie sonder skaamte en berou en, ewe belangrik, ook nie sonder hoop nie. Die boek is bedoel vir elkeen op watter vlak ook al wat erns maak met die pyn van mense, veral veroorsaak deur kerkbesluite van die verlede. En die Afrikaans van die skrywer is sprankelend en kontemporêr.” Johan Buitendag, former Dean of the Faculty of Theology and Religion at the University of Pretoria. From the foreword.

Frits Gaum is Minister Emeritus of the Dutch Reformed Church and former editor of the Church's official mouthpiece, Kerkbode. He served as Secretary of the General Synod and authored the DRC's confession about it's involvement in and support of apartheid, He is the author of Op pad met God en mense, Praat verby grense (co-authored with is son, Laurie) en Fluit-fluit, die kerk is uit?, which won the Andrew Murray Prize in 2012.

KERK OOR DIE MUUR OF OOR DIE RUBICON? Oor geloof, onreg en 'n hofsaak

: Gaum (F.)

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