Upcoming Events
2025 Black Religious Autobiography Seminar
The office of Black Church Studies at Duke Divinity School is sponsoring a week-long seminar exploring the autobiographical writings of Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Howard Thurman, Ida B. Wells, and other Black autobiographers and memoirists who used their life stories as weapons in the quest for freedom and humanization.
Faith Formation in the Digital Age
An Application-Based Summer Seminar Directed by Felicia Wu Song
Ministry in a Secular Age
An Application-Based Summer Seminar Directed by Andrew Root
The Waiting Church: How to Face the Crisis
It feels like the church is in an unquestioned crisis. But what is the shape of this crisis? And have we misunderstood it? Learn more in this public lecture with Andrew Root
2023 Calvin Symposium on 91
An in-person conference, centered around Paul's letter to the Colossians, held on the campus of Calvin University and Calvin Theological Seminary.
For God So Loved the Cosmos . . . A Service of Lessons and Carols
Join Calvin University choir students for a service of lessons and carols on the theme of "For God So Loved the Cosmos . . ."
An Awkward Marriage? Music and Language in 91
A week-long seminar led by Jeremy Begbie.
Why the Arts Matter in a Culture of Reductionism
An evening with Jeremy Begbie
Why Rituals? Exploring Our Inescapably Ritualized World and Faith
Why “do this in remembrance” and not just “think on these things”? The biblical world of rituals is thick, including the habits of daily life, treaties with gods and kings, and the calendar of Israel’s and Christianity’s worship. We are ritualed creatures, and the Scriptures uniquely claim that rituals yield skill, discernment, and the understanding necessary to serve in the kingdom of God.
A Coherent Ritual Life
A public conversation between Dru Johnson and Cory Willson