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Calvin University Chimes

Since 1907
Calvin University's official student newspaper since 1907

Calvin University Chimes

Calvin University's official student newspaper since 1907

Calvin University Chimes

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It’s okay to not know everything

Jacob Baylor, Religion Editor
May 3, 2019

Particularly with how dynamic this semester has been, I take comfort in knowing that I don’t know everything, and I’m not supposed to. People often undervalue uncertainty. As an engineering major,...

Protect Life at Calvin College's flag event, the Cemetery of the Unborn.

Protect Life at Calvin College completes a semester of activity

Jacob Baylor, Religion Editor
May 2, 2019

Protect Life at Calvin College students came together on Tuesday, April 29 to celebrate a semester’s worth of work and look ahead to next year by announcing new leadership. This student organization...

The 2018 Europe interim trip at the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris.

Notre Dame Cathedral in flames, far reaching effects

Jacob Baylor, Religion Editor
April 16, 2019

The flames that engulfed the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris on Monday, April 15, have far reaching effects, even to this community. Bishop David J. Walkowiak of the Diocese of Grand Rapids commented in...

The Rise of the “Nones"

The Rise of the “Nones”

Jacob Baylor, Religion Editor
April 11, 2019

People increasingly decline to identify as religious, according to the General Social Survey (GSS), and Calvin students are no exception. The percent of Americans that do not affiliate religiously, the...

Selvi Bunce, senior, delivering her TEDx speech "Adapting to Change."

TEDx Calvin promotes a community of ideas

Jacob Baylor, Religion Editor
March 7, 2019

Calvin community members united at the TEDx Calvin College event on Saturday, March 2, to discuss a series of topics addressing leadership, philanthropy, adapting to change and prayer. TEDx Calvin College...

Campus Bible study promotes sabbath rest and rejuvenation

Campus Bible study promotes sabbath rest and rejuvenation

Jacob Baylor, Religion Editor
March 1, 2019

Campus Ministries focuses on intentional rest this semester in the campus-wide Bible study “Sabbath.” The study looks at different aspects of successful sabbaths and encourages participants to intentionally...

Photo courtesy of the FIDC 2019 Conference Booklet.

Carol Bremer-Bennett teaches how not to be a savior

Jacob Baylor, Religion Editor
February 13, 2019
The U.S. executive director of World Renew, Carol Bremer-Bennett, recalls, “You don’t get to save anybody; only Jesus saves. You are not a savior,”. Her husband spoke these words after a former student of hers at Rehoboth Christian School committed suicide.
One of the spectacular views that the interim class enjoyed while they stayed in L'Abrie.

Interim class studies independently in Switzerland, wrestling with difficult questions

Jacob Baylor, Religion Editor
January 31, 2019

Sophia Medawar, a senior at Calvin College, noted that, “You don’t go [to L’Abri] if you think you know everything…You go there to seek, you go there to struggle…and you go there to find and...

Weekly church spotlight: Christ Church

Jacob Baylor, Guest Writer
October 4, 2018

Denomination: Presbyterian Church of America (PCA) Location: 2500 Breton Rd, Grand Rapids, MI, 49546 Christ Church is a five-minute car ride from campus, with a van that picks up students at 9:30...

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