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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, ...
I’m proud to be Calvin’s first openly gay student body president, but it hasn’t always been easy to be queer at Calvin or to be open with my story. I didn’t want to be the cause of controversy at ...
Sarah J. Maas’s books are marked as young adult novels. In the book publishing world, young adult usually refers to readers ages 12 to 18 and are often marketed towards a middle or high school reader.
The CRC does not condemn same-sex attraction and says that churches should fully include homosexual congregants in church office and life; however, the 2016 Synod concluded that members in SSMs were ...
A trip through the university’s institutional archives suggests that it has always been thus. Perhaps it’s swingy West Michigan, a region at play in the blue state of Michigan. Perhaps it is the ...
The idea that a government’s foremost obligation is to its people, combined with the idea that people have a responsibility to their country before other countries, is known as “Nationalism.” I think ...
At the time, same-sex marriage was still illegal in the state of Michigan, so the couple traveled to New York for their wedding ceremony. Still, Simonson said public rejection and consequences were ...
For Congressman Bill Huizenga, representative of Michigan’s second district and Calvin 1991 alumnus, faith influences everything he does in his work. “Sometimes there’s more of an emphasis or focus on ...
Calvin’s faculty handbook encourages faculty who disagree with the denomination on a confessional issue to file a statement of confessional difficulty with the PSC. At a board of trustees meeting in ...
“Once they asked me those questions, I was very calm because I have nothing to hide,” Sweda said, pausing to think. “I have nothing to hide, and at the end of the day they can paint me in any picture ...
Every year during the spring semester, Creative Dining Services reviews comments and decides how to change moving forward, according to Todd Kurtz, food service director. The most notable change for ...
Calvin’s design reflects the time period in which the campus was built. In 1917, Calvin moved from its downtown Grand Rapids location to a campus on Franklin Street. Professor of art history Craig ...