The latest Scooby Doo movie, “Scoob!”, is an artificial neo-liberal take on the “pup named Scooby Doo” series.   “Scoob!” was meant to be the first entry into the Hanna-Barbera Cinematic...

“Wear clean pants every day,” advises Irene Kraegel, the director of the Center for Counseling and Wellness (CCW). Kraegel notes that the move online has created a struggle of motivation for many students...

“And at first sight this seems to be an odd thing to do during a great war. What is the use of beginning a task which we have so little chance of finishing? Or, even if we ourselves should happen not...

A few weeks ago, I woke up in a sweat and with body aches — a rare occurrence for me. The day after Calvin moved online, my body aches were so bad that I couldn’t do any school work. But by the next...

Calvin University will not hold the graduation ceremonies for the class of 2020 on May 23, due to executive orders and governmental regulations.  According to Le Roy, student senate appointed a group...

Forgive Everyone Co., a company founded by Calvin student Skyler Rich, is giving a portion of its prison bailout efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic.  The virus presents heightened risks to prison...

Ross Douthat’s new book, “The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success,” critiques the West’s fall into decadence — and in the process, he makes a few decadent claims of...

Calvin is taking steps to slow the spread of the escalating COVID-19 pandemic. Classes will move online effective Monday, March 16, according to a campus wide email sent Wednesday night by President...

Calvin is considering moving interim from January to May. The proposed changes would no longer require students to take three interims for graduation and would combine interim and spring semester for course...

Calvin College, now Calvin University, was established in 1876 — a mere 100 years after America’s founding. Since its founding, Calvin witnessed, felt and participated in some of the most important...

As most of us prepare to spend Thanksgiving with our families, where we will fight with extended relatives about dumb political stuff and Thursday football, “Knives Out” stands out as a relevant and...

Editorial note: Tyler Chan is a pseudonym; the alumnus wished to be anonymous because of his participation in “illegal assemblies.” After graduating from Calvin College last year with a major in...

What does the ancient African bishop, Augustine of Hippo, have in store for 21st century American readers? According to Calvin philosophy professor James K.A. Smith’s new book “On the Road with Saint...

With Celebration Cinema’s new Studio Park location, Grand Rapids opened its first downtown movie theatre in decades on Friday, Sept. 25. “Since the close of the downtown movie theaters in the 1960s,...

Continuing a six-year trend, the 2019 Day 10 report shows a decrease in FTIAC (first time in any college) students and total enrollment. The Day 10 report is an annual report released by the university...

Towards the end of the spring semester, Chimes announced that we would revamp our opinion section by starting new columns. We want to maintain our commitment to sustaining fresh content for these columns,...

Labor Day, the national celebration of the American working class, was this past Monday, and I thought there would be no better way to kick off our Faith Perspectives column than to celebrate the holiday...

The weekly Campus Safety reports are a staple in every issue of Chimes. Usually, the reports are minor alcohol offenses, and students read and laugh at the Beets-Veenstra (or any dorm for that matter)...

Calvin University student Max Renauldo died in a motorcycle crash on Friday, Aug. 23. He was a senior finance major and a member of the Army National Guard. According to University Pastor Mary Hulst,...

Education isn’t just an intellectual activity; at least it isn’t for professor Laura Smit. For Smit, education, particularly in Religion 243: Historical Theology I, is a shaping of moral identity....

Before getting cut, one of SAO's poster slogans read "Changing the conversation about pop culture."

While everyone’s talking about the feminism of Marvel’s latest movie, “Captain Marvel,” and rightly so, nobody’s talking about how it completely subverted our expectations from the semi-colonalist...

The Catholics on campus, as few as there are, shouldn’t be the only ones paying attention to this iteration of the sex abuse scandal. This past week, an Australian jury convicted Cardinal George Pell...

About 40 students gathered together for gummy bears, nachos and of course, the 91st Academy Awards. For the second consecutive year, the CAS department hosted an Oscar watch party at the Bytwerk Theatre...

Our opinion page has always attempted to start dialogue on campus. This is why we decided to spice up our op-ed page by adding a few new columns. The columns will be on recurring, although broad, topics....

The religion department added their ninth faculty member, Clair Mesick, out of well over a hundred other applicants, according to the chair of the religion department, Kenneth Pomykala. The high number...

It’s especially easy to forget or neglect the faces behind our political organizations in today’s political climate, where politics have become a hot topic for college campuses like Calvin. The Calvin...

Although this movie, directed by Josie Rourke, only has one royal figure in the title, it’s really about two: Mary Stuart (Saoirse Ronan) and Queen Elizabeth I (Margot Robbie). Well, at least it claims...

Decades into the faith and evolution conflict and the majority of biology professors at many Christian schools teach evolution as the best explanation for the development of life, but they teach it at...

Smoke Break Pictures, the largely Calvin-student-led production company, won the audience choice award and a $1,000 award at the 2018 Adrian International Film Festival this spring with their short film...

First Man, Damien Chazelle’s third film, is the movie that our polarized country needs. With its thoroughly humanist perspective, it unites rather than divides. It also happens to be the first time Neil...

The assassinated Archbishop Oscar Romero became Saint Romero on Oct. 14. Most Rev. Bishop David J. Walkowiak of the Diocese of Grand Rapids spoke about the life, martyrdom and significance of Romero and...

The religion department has experienced a relatively steady decline of majors over the past nine years. In 2009 there were 65 majors, with the numbers falling year-by-year, from 60, 56, 49, 42, 37, 35,...

HOLLAND, MI — Six Calvin students shared an interfaith meal with members of the Holland community. The event took place at the Holland Arts Council on Tuesday, September 25. Participants came to the...

You don’t have to be a Star Wars fan to enjoy this film. In fact, it’s more entertaining if you aren’t a junkie of the series. Sure, it still has the typical overwhelming score, a few pointless sub-plots...

Hekman Library currently has various antique Bibles on display.

Phoebe Bridgers and her four-member band transported a packed house at the Ladies Literary Club with their mellow and somber performance. Since the September release of her debut album, “Stranger...

In his lecture, “Kingdom Mistakes and Their Consequences: From Abraham Kuyper to the Religious Right,” David Crump, professor emeritus from the Calvin College religion department, proposed that the...

This spring, three classes are offered to Calvin students via remote live stream, including professor of sociology, Roman Williams’ course, “Visual Sociology.” The courses are taught via Google-supplied...

Calvin College’s education department received the highest 2017 Educator Preparation Institution (EPI) scores out of all comprehensive educational institutions in Michigan. The EPI scores are assigned...

A panel of three Calvin faculty members gathered on Nov. 16 in the Willow Room of Prince Conference Center to discuss “how should a Reformed theological vision shape the college’s definition of academic...

Calvin College has not always been the increasingly diverse campus that it is now. Calvin was originally founded by a Dutch immigrant community to train ministers. Since it was founded by and for the Dutch...

This article previously stated that the film "Over 18" will be shown on Oct. 18. It will be shown on Oct. 19. Sex Ed, an event in the Sexuality Series on Tuesday, was dedicated to having Christian professionals...

Geography Professor Jason VanHorn tracked the path of Hurricane Irma to uncover how many people were in the storm’s path this week. Though VanHorn’s technologically-based research revealed an alarming...

Calvin is currently in the process of implementing its “master plan.” The master plan appears in a booklet by the Campus Master Plan Steering Committee that presents Calvin College’s renovation plans...

An estimated 21.3 million refugees were recorded worldwide in 2016. Who are these millions of refugees in our midst? At the Noontime Series last Thursday, Bethany Christian Services representative Ana...