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In a world generically “spiritual,” how does a preacher tend to the highest calling of the pastoral life: the tending of souls?
Explore the sometimes overlooked but vital roles women play in the parables of Jesus.
At the intersection of theology and anthropology, this session will investigate the impact of the language Christians use for God.
Suicide is a deeply personal and all-too-present reality in Christian congregations.
Baptism is often contentious. It breeds arguments and division, splitting congregations and families.
This vesper service offers a journey through the psalms in a jazz style. Music is adapted from the album Connexion: A Jazz Psalter, produced by Wally Brath. Brath (piano), Nikki Lerner (voice), Greg Tardy, (saxophone, clarinet), and a Calvin University chamber orchestra lead the congregation through God’s story of creation, fall, redemption, and restoration, exploring the full emotional depth of the psalms. The jazz-inspired soundtrack offers rich musical expression that complements the divine poetry.
Explore how Christians in the earliest centuries of Christianity preached and prayed about illness, pain, and health care and shaped practices of baptism, the Lord’s Supper, and funerals in response to illness and injury, including during pandemics—all so that we can learn from their pastoral, theological, and practical instincts as we seek to be faithful witnesses to Christ in our own globally diverse contexts.
How did early Christians understand and practice wealth in relation to worship/service and care of the poor?
Mark 4:34 claims Jesus never said anything to the crowds without using parables.
Raymond Wise leads this time of song, prayer, and reflection.
Many consider the author of Hebrews the most adept storyteller in the New Testament due to the epistle’s comprehensiveness and rhetorical finesse.
Listen to and learn from scholars from diverse backgrounds and cultural experiences who provided exegetical expertise and unique interpretive lenses to The New Testament in Color: A Multiethnic Bible Commentary (IVP Academic, 2024).
