The Visual Arts Guild (VAG) welcomed the Calvin community on Dec. 1 for “Subarts: Pomegranates in the Sky,” a night of food, visual art and music in the Spoelhof Center basement. As the guild’s fall...

This fall, Calvin theatre professor and director Debra Freeberg enlisted alumna Tricia Bayfield to create original music for “The Arabian Nights” (opening Nov. 2 in the Gezon Auditorium) and soundscape...

Director Karin Maag and curator Paul Fields regularly explore the lives of the Reformers at the H. Henry Meeter Center for Calvin Studies. While leading a group of 32 travelers in late September, they...

Calvin students and staff joined other Grand Rapidians in an interfaith peace walk and service hosted by the Dominican Center of Marywood this Sunday. At the Center’s St. Francis of Assisi Sculpture...

Last week, the White House announced the “wind-down” and eventual Mar. 6 end of the DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) program, provoking widespread criticism from Christian figures and...

“Race, Trauma and the Doctrine of Discovery” Calvin senior Nelson Bates opened Jan. 6’s session in a language unfamiliar to most attendees but incredibly familiar to the day’s speaker. Bates...

The days of regular writing assignments often disappear when a Calvin diploma appears. For some, this is a reason to rejoice: goodbye, late-night essays. But for many word-lovers, this is an unwelcome...

This weekend, the Calvin Theatre Company will continue their presentation of “The Philadelphia Story,” the 1939 Philip Barry play that inspired the 1940 Oscar-winning film.  The story follows Philadelphia...

No shipbuilder in their right mind would ever construct a canoe out of cardboard. And no professional rower would ever agree to travel in such a vessel. But this weekend at the Seminary Pond, seven groups...

At last Friday’s presentation of “Mr. Darwin’s Tree” in the Lab Theatre, British actor Andrew Harrison portrayed the titular naturalist. But that was not his only role — far from it.  According...

This week, Chimes sat down with David Malone, who, after 25 years with Wheaton’s Buswell Library, recently joined Calvin College Hekman Library as its new dean. Chimes: How would you describe your...

Commons Dining Hall is not what it used to be. According to many students (and many pizza-lovers), that is a very good thing. Renovations to the building have been planned since February 2015, but construction...

Kimonos. Calligraphy. Sushi. Martial arts. Last Friday, Calvin’s annual Japanese Cultural Celebration brought these tastes of Asia to the Commons Annex Lecture Hall, introducing over 75 participants...

A chorus of metallic clangs greeted students walking across Commons Lawn Tuesday morning — the satisfying sound of Calvin’s second-annual Scale Smash. Attendees strapped on a pair of protective...

On Saturday, Calvin’s Got Talent showcased a variety of student performances to a packed Covenant Fine Arts Center auditorium. Pants Patrol opened the evening on an upbeat and (short shorts-clad)...

Two days before Easter break, the Hekman Library should have transformed into a ghost town, only populated by the library staff and a scattered collection of students. Instead, over ninety students flocked...

This summer, the Faith and International Development Conference (FIDC) organizers approached theater professor Stephanie Sandberg with an unusual suggestion. What if a play were to join their lineup, traditionally...

During the closing days of January, worship leaders from Grand Rapids and around the world gathered for a time of encouragement and growth at Calvin’s 28th Symposium on Worship. Attendees came from over...

In a world and on a campus where gender stereotypes and inequalities abound, students can often feel voiceless. Gender Equality Now (GEN), Calvin’s only feminist student organization, fosters an environment...