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Calvin University's official student newspaper since 1907

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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Sufjan Stevens returns to Calvin College for sold-out show

Kate Parsons
April 30, 2015

“It’s good to be back in the mother country,” Michigan native Sufjan Stevens quipped in the CFAC last Tuesday, performing at Calvin for the first time since 2007. The Hope graduate shared with...

‘Carrie and Lowell’ is provocative and moving

Michael Lentz
April 17, 2015

In the song "John Wayne Gacy Jr." from his 2007 album, "Come On, Feel The Illinoise", Sufjan Stevens sings: "And in my best behavior / I am really just like him / look beneath the floorboards / for the...

Sufjan’s ‘Carrie and Lowell’ does not live up to the hype

Jonathan Hielkema
April 10, 2015

I beg the reader’s forgiveness for beginning this review by talking not about Sufjan Stevens but about Soren Kierkegaard. French philosopher Henri Lefebvre writes of Kierkegaard, the great Danish...

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