1. Andries Knevel grew up in a Christian-Reformed family with a municipal civil servant father and stay-at-home mother.
18 Facts About Andries Knevel
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In interviews, Andries Knevel pointed at a specific moment that God entered his life during an economics lecture, and that he decided that he wanted to become a minister instead.
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Andries Knevel changed his field of study to theology: first at the Vrije Universiteit, but after a year he switched to Utrecht University, where he graduated in 1979.
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In 1978, Andries Knevel started as free lance desk reporter at the Evangelische Omroep, a Dutch public broadcasting organisation with evangelical-protestant roots.
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Andries Knevel quickly became a staff member in 1979, and in 1989 took the position of head of informative programs.
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Between 2001 and 2004, Andries Knevel had his own national talkshow on Saturday, Andries Knevel op Zaterdag.
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In 2013, Andries Knevel started a series of interview or conversation programs about religion.
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Andries Knevel got national recognition for his show Het Elfde Uur.
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Andries Knevel's style was sometimes confrontational and sharp, which was both appreciated and criticized.
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In 2005, Andries Knevel declared in a radio talk show that he no longer accepted the classical creationism teaching that the earth was created in six days.
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Andries Knevel was at the time still a director at the EO, and considered it no longer scientifically acceptable to rely on the historical accuracy of Genesis 1.
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Andries Knevel stated that he could be an devout orthodox Protestant, without believing that the world was created six thousand years ago in six times 24 hours, and that he regretted that he misled viewers and children in the past.
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Andries Knevel later had to offer apologies for giving an impression that his personal view was the view of the EO.
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Andries Knevel authored a number of books on theology and television.
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Andries Knevel was editor and secondary author of a number of theological publications, Theologische Verkenningen.
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Andries Knevel was editor-in-chief at the Christian opinion magazine Koers and wrote various opinion columns for evangelical and catholic magazines.
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Andries Knevel is a member of the Christian Reformed Churches and visits the evangelical international church Crossroads in Amstelveen.
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Andries Knevel often preaches as a theologian in numerous churches.