This article includes two perspectives, Christian and Muslim. Late last year, this Christian, Gregory Mox, noticed how the health of this Muslim, Eric Rackard, had sharply declined. Settling into my desk-nesting...
I noticed, while examining readings from one of my Jubilee Fellows’ classes, the kenotic model of emptying oneself was extremely apparent and matched well with the servant leadership paradigm established...
Last week, Calvin’s board of trustees (BOT) made public its report to Synod 2025 – a document detailing Calvin’s plan to deal with faculty dissent on certain key topics, including human sexuality.
The...
Calvin University leaders released a report late last week detailing a long-anticipated update on how the school will handle faculty disagreement with certain positions of the university’s parent denomination,...
As we celebrate Women’s History Month, the Calvin Center for Faith & Writing, in partnership with Brazos Press, invited author Beth Allison Barr to Calvin on Thursday, March 20, to discuss her newest...
How do people respond when their higher institutes and organizations make empty promises? Dr. James Bratt, a former Calvin history professor that retired in 2016, plans to discuss this question at his...
Graham Kort, General Assignment Editor February 24, 2025
In the mid-1990s, Calvin welcomed a Sunday evening worship service to campus in addition to daily chapels. The service was known as “Living Our Faith Together,” abbreviated as “LOFT.” According...
Addy Offutt, General Assignment Reporter February 17, 2025
In spring 2023, Professor Nate Glasper Jr., a campus worship associate, had an idea. He brought together five students and encouraged them to form a group for multicultural worship on Calvin’s Campus....
Anna Caruso, General Assignment Reporter December 9, 2024
Whether it’s the rich tones of the organ, the harmonies of a choir, or the familiar words of a liturgy spoken out over the congregation, worship can be an intensely hearing-focused experience for many...
Last week, the Healthy Dialogue Series featured a documentary showing and subsequent conversation about the issues of homosexuality in the Bible. Chimes followed up with Dr. David Lincicum, Associate Professor...
This Tuesday, Nov. 12, Calvin Philosophy Professor Matthew Halteman’s new book, Hungry Beautiful Animals: The Joyful Case for Going Vegan, will be released. In the book, Halteman aims to shift how people...
Last Thursday, Oct. 31, marked 507 years since a monk named Martin Luther posted his “Disputation on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences” — now known as the 95 Theses — to a church door in Wittenberg,...
