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
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? Learn more in this public lecture with Andrew Root
Cultural Values in Ministry—October 2025
Developed in partnership with the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship and the Calvin University School of Graduate and Continuing Studies, this online course equips worship planners and leaders of all types of ministries with practical tools for relating well to people from a variety of cultures. Understanding and respecting cultural differences is key to a healthy ministry.
2022 Calvin Symposium on Worship
A livestream conference with some in-person sessions on the campus of Calvin University and Calvin Theological Seminary
Creating Congregations of Belonging for People of All Abilities - January 2022
‘Beyond Cliché’ -- A Conversation with N.T. Wright about Christian Public Worship
Apply to Host a Book Group in Winter 2022
A Light to the Nations Service of Lessons and Carols at LaGrave Avenue CRC
In an era in which narrow nationalisms are emerging yet again in so many places around the world, how important it is to dwell with the countercultural, global vision of Isaiah’s prophecies.