WASH POST COMMENTARY re CRC & RCA "Burying the hatchet (almost literally) -" The Washington Post

I remember when Michaelson was leading the RCA..he was on my mailing list for a while. The Lund Principle is a good point of reference. I applaud reconciliation,albeit I'm not comfortable with church members also being freemasons or other secret societies.
".Delegates were presented with a proposal to adopt the so-called "Lund Principle," which originated out of a
World Council of Churches gathering in 1952. The
document has captured the ecumenical imagination
for half a century, particularly its call to "act together
in all matters except those in which deep differences
of conviction compel us to act separately."
The Lund Principle flips the paradigm of ecumenical
relationships, asserting that the starting point is
always acting together, and demanding a conviction
to justify acting apart. The proposal resonated among
the delegates, and in good Reformed fashion, they
even tried to amend it. In the end it was adopted in a
miraculously unanimous vote..."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/religion/commentary-burying-the-hatchet-almost-literally/2014/06/18/15aad198-f726-11e3-9e63-ec28e320b8bf_story.html