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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

The 2023 Symposium will be held in person after two years of being online.

Worship Symposium back in person after two years online

Gabriel Choi, Religion Reporter
February 5, 2023

The 2023 Calvin Symposium on Worship will commence on Feb. 8 at 9 a.m. in the Covenant Fine Arts Center. Through the joint efforts of the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship (CICW) and the Center for...

Students partner with YWAM’s Circuit Riders to return revival event to campus

Students partner with YWAM’s Circuit Riders to return revival event to campus

Abigail Ham, Managing Editor
November 14, 2021

A team of Calvin students is organizing with Circuit Riders, a ministry of Youth With A Mission, to bring their Carry The Love tour back to Calvin in spring 2022. Circuit Riders is a Gen-Z-powered and...

Judah Manoraj (left) and Denny Tawas (right) lead worship remotely.

Worship at Calvin continues despite COVID-19

Gabrielle Eisma, Guest Writer
May 15, 2020

Judah Manoraj sits and reads Daniel 3 to a closed window, face lit by both his screen and the afternoon light that filters through his suitemate’s empty dorm room. The passage is 880 words long, and...

Prayer tent organizers explain annual tradition

Dana Drosdick, On-Call Writer
May 18, 2018

Since its beginning five years ago, mystery and misunderstanding have shrouded Calvin’s prayer tent on Commons Lawn, with students wondering what’s inside those foreboding flaps each year during finals...

Photo Credit calvin.edu/worship

Annual symposium emphasizes diversity in worship

Courtney Zonnefeld
February 4, 2016

During the closing days of January, worship leaders from Grand Rapids and around the world gathered for a time of encouragement and growth at Calvin’s 28th Symposium on Worship. Attendees came from over...

Photo by Andrew Kromminga

Chaplain reflects on interim trip to Kenya and Uganda

Josh Parks
February 20, 2015

While thousands of on-campus students were reading Tolkien, developing Christian minds or bowling, one group of Calvin students, staff and faculty spent their Interim learning in two African countries,...

Applications for next year’s Worship Apprentice team open now

Applications for next year’s Worship Apprentice team open now

Josh Parks
February 5, 2015

Campus ministries is currently taking applications for next year’s worship apprentice (WA) team. The WAs are a group of six to eight students responsible for leading worship at Calvin, planning chapel...

Photo Credit Mikaela Mannes

ReigKnight helps vary students’ worship experience

Bill Warners
December 4, 2014

Like international worship night, ReigKnight offers a collection of worship practices that many students can enjoy. For those who don’t know, ReigKnight is a worship service held twice a month in...

Photo by Katelyn Bosch

Joint Prayer Movement at library lobby

Katelyn Bosch
November 12, 2014

This week, the library lobby was transformed into a place of prayer and reflection as many students gathered to participate in the Joint Prayer Movement. The movement consisted of student prayer on Monday,...

City Life Church addiction group

Bill Warners
October 9, 2014

Every Wednesday night, men and women from the Grand Rapids community meet at City Life Church to be involved in a faith-focused recovery group called Celebrate Recovery led by Rev. Nathan Beals. However,...

Begbie on Post-Protestant Stress Disorder: recovering a sense of mystery in worship

Begbie on Post-Protestant Stress Disorder: recovering a sense of mystery in worship

Nathan Groenewold
February 5, 2014

Have you heard of PPSD (Post-Protestant Stress Disorder)? Do you struggle with it? Symptoms might include, but are not limited to, a frustration with long Powerpoint-driven sermons, a belief that the Bible...

Leaders from across the world gather for worship on campus

Nathan Groenewold
February 3, 2014

The 27th annual Symposium on Worship welcomed over 1,600 church leaders to campus this past weekend. Leaders came seeking worship renewal, fellowship and training. Perhaps the only thing they struggled...

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