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...

Campus Ministries is kicking off the 5th annual campus-wide Bible study. This year, the campus will study the book of James. Chaplain Mary Hulst is excited for the challenge that James presents students. “James...

Calvin students reflect on the role worship services on campus, such as daily Chapel and LOFT, should play in their spiritual lives. While many students appreciate daily opportunities to join the Calvin...

“We have never seen anything like this!” The crowd exclaimed when the paralytic rose from his mat, took it up and walked. They must have been paralyzed themselves after the scene they had just witnessed....

Back in the day, when I was a worship apprentice, I remember our team tossing around the idea of phasing out the song “My Friends, May You Grow in Grace” — and wondering whether such a change was...

For many years, the song “My Friends, May You Grow in Grace” has ended every Living Our Faith Together (LOFT) service, but this is about to change after Paul Ryan, associate chaplain for worship, announced...

Two weeks ago in Sunday LOFT, Pastor Mary offered students a sermon on Christian sexual ethics. Last week, the Chimes ran an article labeling this sermon “problematic” and claiming it defended “the...

In the LOFT sermon on Sunday, Pastor Mary explained what Biblical sex was and was not in a sermon titled (although not quite about) “What if it’s True That Sex is for Marriage Between a Man and a Woman?”...

Pastor Mary Hulst, Calvin’s esteemed chaplain, preached a sermon for February 10‘s LOFT (Living Our Faith Together) service that answered questions about Christianity’s exclusivity and the radical...