Upcoming Events
2025 Calvin Symposium on Worship
Can We Flourish Together When Some are Left Out? Intellectual Disability and Care in Our Churches
American writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin wrote, “History is not the past. It is the present. We carry our history with us” ('I Am Not Your Negro'). Our current reality is shaped by the histories that have led us here, and we can’t seek to build a better future without taking seriously where we are now. So thinking about how people with intellectual disabilities should be treated in the church—what our ministries with, to, and from people with disabilities should be like—requires us to think carefully about the past and present in ways that are perhaps unpleasant. Many people with intellectual disabilities, their families, and their caregivers do not presently feel welcome in local congregations because of the history of cultural and social exclusion of those with such disabilities.
Loving to Know: Attuning Your Philosophy to Enhance Your Ministry
An application-based seminar on covenant epistemology in worship, life, and leadership
Recovering Our Love of the Real
Many people feel that reality is just impersonal, indifferent, and meaningless, only grist for society’s pragmatic utility and scaling of power and mastery. It’s the stuff we consume, stuff with which I can do whatever I want. Even religious people sometimes devalue the world as irreligious, spiritually inferior, or a temptation to idolatry. But perhaps involvement with reality is just what we humans were meant for.
2024 Calvin Symposium on Worship
The Calvin Symposium on Worship is dedicated to worship and learning together with worshipers from communities around the globe and is sponsored by the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship and the Center for Excellence in Preaching.
Until Justice and Peace Embrace
Join the Calvin University choirs for their annual Lessons and Carols service at LaGrave Avenue Christian Reformed Church on Dec. 3 at either 3:00 PM or 6:00 PM, when the service will be repeated. Both services will be livestreamed.
Worship Songs for Workers
A free and open to the public concert by The Porter’s Gate Worship