For a small town in New Mexico, Rehoboth has a surprising number of connections to Calvin University and the Christian Reformed Church (CRC), beginning with its becoming a CRC mission in 1903. Many of...

The percentage of CRC students at Calvin has decreased by 68.3% in between 1973 and 2022. (Data from Day 10 reports and William Katerberg)

The Asbury Revival — a chapel service at a Christian university turned two-week prayer and worship event drawing thousands — has been in the news for the last month. Responses among Christians have...

Last Friday marked the last day of the first January Series directed by Michael Wildschut. Wildschut became director in April 2022, after many years at Calvin serving as an event coordinator and associate...

SPAUD’s move into North Hall will affect students, faculty, SPAUD clients and other departments currently in or moving into the science complex.

For political science professor Micah Watson, civil discourse is “real engagement that tries to respect where someone else is coming from and understand.” It is predicated on a willingness to engage...

This CWI research team tests water in ponds all over campus.

CWI members pose with water testing supplies.

This is the third year of an “unlikely pairing” between Calvin’s ENGR 101 class and Grandville-Calvin Christian’s second grade classes, said electrical engineering professor Monica Groenenboom. Calvin...

Part of what makes Calvin engineering unique are the program’s design norms — principles that are meant to guide the engineering design process. Students and professors agree that these norms help...

Classes typically are not scheduled during chapel break because it is a “sacred” time, according to Tom Steenwyk, registrar and director of academic advising. But each year some hands-on and off-campus...

Engineering gender percentage by year (data from Gayle Ermer)

The approximately 40 churches at Calvin’s annual church fair represent a wide variety of denominations and congregations in the Grand Rapids area. John Britton, director of Campus Involvement and Leadership,...

Religion Professor Emeritus Kenneth Pomykala and Dr. Karin Maag, director of the Meeter Center, cite increased religious diversity at Calvin and decreased biblical literacy as possible reasons for Reformed...

Students gather in the Fieldhouse for a night of worship and preaching by Carry the Love.

To religion Department Chair Won Lee, a Christian liberal arts education shouldn’t consist of separate “blocks” of learning, but of integrated classes and disciplines. He said the reason “religion...

University Pastor Mary Hulst’s advice for interdenominational couples is simple: “Ask good questions: … What was growing up in this tradition like?  What are their best memories? What would they...

Kyle Borror, a Calvin missionary kid who primarily grew up in Ecuador and Lesotho, described the term “third-culture kid” as “you have the culture that you're living in overseas and then you have...