Upcoming Events
Forming Leaders for Peacemaking and Conflict Transformation: An Interview with Canon Sarah Snyder
Learn about the groundbreaking global work of the Rose Castle Foundation. In a world of painful divisions, what can equip leaders with the habits and skills they need to transform conflict, including in some of the world's most vexing sites of division?
2025 Calvin Symposium on Worship
Black Faith, Black Spirituality, and the American Story
Join us for four special nights of learning from the stories and practices of Black Americans. Each night, one of our special guests will share aspects of the faith and spirituality of Africana people living in the United States, and how their stories have intersected with and helped shape the American story.
Liturgical Practices of Enslaved Africana People in the American Colonial Period As Witnessed in Select [En]slave[d] Narratives
An examination of enslaved narratives as a genre and primary source of the experiences of enslaved Africana people in the American context and presents select excerpts reflective of their theology and liturgical practice.
Unfinished Business: From the Great Migration to Black Lives Matter
Viewing and discussion of a musical documentary that showcases untold Great Migration [1916-1970] stories of elders from Black churches in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh and connects their distinctive history to the contemporary Black Lives Matter movement.
Singing the Lord's Song in a Strange Land: Hymns from ‘One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism: An African American Ecumenical Hymnal’
In this interactive session, participants will sing selected hymns from this recently published hymnal that are related to various topics in the seminar “African American Religious Autobiography.”