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In the 102 years that Student Senate has existed, we’ve never had an openly gay student body president. It’s beyond time that the LGBTQ community is represented in the highest student leadership ...
Editor’s note: One of the enduring issues of this school year for the Calvin community at large has been clarifying the university’s relationship with the Christian Reformed Church in North America, ...
Neland Avenue Christian Reformed Church appointed a congregant who is in a same-sex marriage as deacon this past summer. According to Council President Larry Louters, they are the only congregation in ...
Walk into any bookstore these days and I assure you, you will find some table or display dedicated to Sarah J. Maas. She is a current New York Times bestselling author, and you cannot scroll through ...
Last week, the Healthy Dialogue Series featured a documentary showing and subsequent conversation about the issues of homosexuality in the Bible. Chimes followed up with Dr. David Lincicum, Associate ...
Calvin’s board of trustees decided last Friday to approve the Professional Status Committee (PSC)’s recommendation to retain all faculty in the “pioneer cohort” — a group of faculty who were the first ...
Calvin’s Professional Status Committee has recommended against reappointing social work professor Joseph Kuilema due to his decision to officiate a same-sex marriage ceremony, according to documents ...
When Jan Simonson married her partner in 2012, she was euphoric. The former Calvin professor recalled feeling like she “was in seventh heaven” going for walks and holding hands in public with her new ...
In the mid-1990s, Calvin welcomed a Sunday evening worship service to campus in addition to daily chapels. The service was known as “Living Our Faith Together,” abbreviated as “LOFT.” According to Ron ...
Last weekend, before the election, I saw a post circulating around Instagram by influencer Cole LaBrant. A somber photo shows LaBrant with his hand on the shoulder of now President-elect Donald Trump, ...
The Church should reevaluate its expectation that political leaders, particularly the President, share our faith. Such a reevaluation should also prompt us to rethink our politics. The collapse of ...
Oula Salih is a pre-med biology major, a biochemistry minor and part of Calvin’s growing Muslim community. Her dream after graduation is to use her knowledge to help people in poor and struggling ...