Upcoming Events
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?
2023 African American Religious Autobiography
A summer seminar on insights for pastoral and worship ministries
Frederick Douglass Jazz Works
A free and open to the public Jazz Experience with Ruth Naomi Floyd. Not able to livestream.
Reflections on Lamentation
A lecture free and open to the public by Dr. Rolanda L. Ward, Dr. Stephanie Boddie, and Dr. Danjuma Gibson
Howard Thurman’s Deep River and the Negro Spiritual Speaks of Life and Death
A free and open to the public evening of music and narration with Jimmie Abbington
Does Your Character Preach?
A summer seminar on the virtues of a beautiful word and witness
Putting a Human Face on Migration
A summer seminar on thinking deeply about migration and migrants as a Christian