1855 Knollcrest Circle SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49546-4402 USA
On the campus of Calvin University and Calvin Theological Seminary
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Exploring Worship and Grief
An Application-Based Summer Seminar Directed by John Swinton and Isaac Wardell
Service of Lament
Join us on Thursday, June 12th in the chapel at Calvin Theological Seminary for a special evening service of prayer and worship on the theme of lament and grief. This service will be led by Isaac Wardell, director of The Porter’s Gate Worship Project, and John Swinton, pastoral theologian from Aberdeen, Scotland. They will be joined by other musicians and church leaders from around the country who are gathered at The Calvin Institute of Christian Worship to study the biblical theme of grief and lament.
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
Loneliness: A Casualty of AI as Human Substitute
This public lecture with Felicia Wu Song highlights the impacts of AI on human interactions and how faith communities should respond.
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?
An application-based seminar on covenant epistemology in worship, life, and leadership
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.
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.
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.
A free and open to the public concert by The Porter’s Gate Worship
A summer seminar on liturgies for those who labor
