This is a special edition of The Counsel of Chalcedon. Its primary focus is on the history and strength of the Reformed Faith in South Africa. It is addressed to our distinctively Christian readership. We pray that you take time to read every word of this issue. The future of the United States of America is inseparably entwined with the future of the Republic of South Africa. Both our nations have the same roots--in the Biblical Calvinism of the Protestant Reformation of the Sixteenth Century; and the worldview of the heart of South Africans is still in large part, shaped by the foundational principles of that Calvinism, in a manner that the heart of Americans is not.