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Dr. Amy Kenny speaks at the January Series in 2023. From Calvin public photo gallery.

2025 January Series sees restructure and big names

Graham Kort, General Assignment Reporter
December 9, 2024

Most students at Calvin are used to hearing from fifteen speakers every January as part of Calvin’s annual January Series. This coming January, there will be only ten.  This restructuring is for...

Viewership has risen thanks to a combination of remote and in person viewers.

January Series smashes total viewing record

Abigail Ham, Managing Editor
February 3, 2022

At the conclusion of the January Series on Jan. 28, Director Kristi Potter announced that the series would reach a total of more than 100,000 viewers by the evening. Despite a daily on-campus attendance...

N.T. Wright will make his sixth January Series appearance in 2022, setting a program record.

January Series 2022 speakers revealed; N.T. Wright to make record-breaking sixth appearance

Katherine Benedict, Campus & Community Co-Editor
September 19, 2021

Calvin unveiled the 35th January Series speaker lineup on Thursday, including a sixth appearance by new testament scholar N.T. Wright, a record for the series.  The 2022 lineup features two other returning...

January series speakers announced

January series speakers announced

Abby Poirier, Guest Writer
September 26, 2019

The January Series has announced its line-up for January of 2020. For the past 30 years, the popular lecture series has brought fresh voices and a broad range of relevant topics to Calvin University during...

Calvin history professor and director of the Meeter Center, Karen Maag, speaking at the January Series on Wednesday, the 4th; Photo by Mary Taber

The latest from the 2017 January Series (1/4 – 1/5)

Chimes Staff
January 5, 2017

Thursday, Jan. 5, Matthew Desmond: “Poverty and Profit in the American City” Harvard professor and MacArthur “genius grant” recipient Matthew Desmond presented his startling research on rental...

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January speaker shares her stories of healing, hope and renewal for war’s children victims

Amelia Sterenberg
February 4, 2016

This year, Calvin brought speaker Dr. Bethany Haley Williams to the 2016 January Series to talk about her experience founding a program aimed at therapeutically rehabilitating child survivors of war in...

Photo courtesy Calvin College January Series

In its 28th year, award-winning January Series continues to impress

Laura Sheppard
January 15, 2015

Every winter at Calvin, it starts again. As the temperature outside drops, the posters go up, heralding big names and even bigger ideas. And each weekday in January, in a CFAC auditorium that’s full...

Photo courtesy Calvin College January Series

January Series speaker Craig Detweiler speaks on ‘iGods’

Britt Botterman
January 15, 2015

Calvin’s culturally enriching January Series is back with another impressive and diverse crop of speakers. Among them is Pepperdine University communications professor Craig Detweiler, who has been featured...

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Chapel series seeks faith-filled ways to approach big issues

Josh Parks
January 15, 2015

The familiar weekly chapel pattern is on hiatus this Interim as campus ministries presents a three-week series called “By Faith.” The series focuses both on the faith of biblical figures recorded in...

Josh Linkner speaks at the January Series. Photo by Anna Delph.

January Series 2015 inspires through story

Julia LaPlaca
January 15, 2015

This year marks the 28th installment of the January Series. During Interim, the January Series invites speakers of the highest caliber from a wide variety of fields and disciplines. “Every day is...

Bill Rasmussen, founder of ESPN to speak at January Series

Alden Hartopo
January 23, 2014

Known as the ‘George Washington’ of ESPN and the Father of Cable Sports, Bill Rasmussen started the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network in 1979. His vision started with a $9000 credit card...

photo courtesy Calvin College

Civil rights leader John M. Perkins leads Calvin in honoring Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Joseph Matheson
January 20, 2014

In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, John M. Perkins, one of the foremost evangelicals involved in the civil rights movement and the president of the John M. Perkins Foundation for Reconciliation and...

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