Sioux Center, Iowa — The recipients have been announced of the Lambertus Verberg Prize for Excellence in Kuyperian Scholarship, one of the largest scholarships made available to Dordt students.
Joya Schreurs, a sophomore studying theology and English, will receive a one-year $15,000 scholarship. Anna Herman, a sophomore studying accounting, is runner-up and will receive a one-year $10,000 scholarship. Three other students wrote essays that received honorable mention.
Schreurs’s essay is titled “The Depth of Depravity and the Remedy of an All-Embracing Life System: A Kuyperian Response to the Crisis of Sexual Abuse in the American Evangelical Church.”
Herman, whose paper is titled “Love your Neighbor: The Church’s Response to Individualism’s Impact on Interpersonal Engagement,” was familiar with Kuyper’s writings from readings in the Kuyper Honors Program. When she heard about the scholarship, she was interested in integrating his thoughts into a modern-day issue.
The Lambertus Verberg Prize for Excellence in Kuyperian Scholarship is funded by an estate gift from Rimmer and Ruth de Vries, in memory of Rimmer’s great-grandfather, who settled in Sioux Center in the 1890s.
