Calvin Theological Seminary

Think Global Wednesday Lunch
2024-12-04 12:25 - 13:15 (America/Detroit) | Upper Room
Join CTS Missionary in Residence Melissa Bos for the Think Global Thursday Lunch series! All in the CTS community – faculty, staff, spouses, students – are invited to participate in this informal lunch conversation about cross-cultural ministry.
RSVP here!

Chapel
2024-12-04 10:00 - 10:30, 2024-11-27 10:00 - 10:30, 2024-11-20 10:00 - 10:30, 2024-11-13 10:00 - 10:30, 2024-11-06 10:00 - 10:30 | Chapel
Join us each week for chapel, followed by donut fellowship in the Student Center! Chapel can be livestreamed on the Calvin Seminary YouTube channel.

Public Reading of Scripture
2024-12-03 12:00 - 13:00, 2024-11-26 12:00 - 13:00, 2024-11-19 12:00 - 13:00, 2024-11-12 12:00 - 13:00 | Student Center

Student Council Meeting
2024-12-02 20:00 - 21:30, 2024-11-04 20:00 - 21:30 | Calvin Theological Seminary, 3233 Burton ST SE, Grand Rapids, MI, 49519, United States

American Thanksgiving Dinner
2024-11-29 17:30 - 20:00 | Student Center
Join the RSAT team for a traditional American Thanksgiving dinner! Please RSVP by clicking here. The form will provide additional information on the requested quantity of food to bring and more!
Contact RSAT (rsat@calvinseminary.edu) with any questions!

Student Dinner
2024-11-26 18:00 - 21:00 | Student Center
CTS students & families, join retired professor Carl Bosma for an evening of fellowship with people from across the globe! A free Mediterranean-inspired dinner will be provided, along with a short devotional.
Please RSVP to Dr. Carl Bosma (cbosma@calvinseminary.edu) so he can plan accurately for food amounts.

Interfaith Thanksgiving Celebration
2024-11-25 19:00 - 21:00 | Calvin Theological Seminary, 3233 Burton ST SE, Grand Rapids, MI, 49519, United States
25th Annual Interfaith Thanksgiving Celebration
@ Westminster Presbyterian Church in downtown Grand Rapids
We will meet at Calvin Seminary before the event, and also take some time to reflect together after the event.
From the Kaufman Interfaith Institute:
This year marks the 25th year of our annual Interfaith Thanksgiving Celebration!
The Kaufman Interfaith Institute along with the interfaith community of grand rapids welcomes you to enjoy an evening of celebration of Gratitude for Our Shared Home.
During the event, we will hear from members of our community, representing an array of religious, spiritual, and secular worldview identities, as they discuss the enduring need for gratitude of our shared home during this and all seasons. A free-will offering will be collected for Kids’ Food Basket during the celebration.
Light refreshments will follow the gathering.
Connect with Melissa (mbos@crcna.org) if you have any questions & to RSVP.

Thanksgiving Break
2024-11-25 - 2024-11-29

Awakening Worship Night
2024-11-24 20:00 - 21:30 | Chapel
Join Korean students from Calvin University and Calvin Seminary for a night of praise and worship. The entire service will be held in Korean. Steve Hwang is the featured speaker, and there will be Korean-style communal prayer.

Monthly Mini Colloquium
2024-11-21 12:30 - 13:15 | Student Center
Join Dr. Yudha Thianto and a faculty or staff featured speaker for a time of lunch and learning! RSVP to Dr. Yudha Thianto!

Financial Wellness Workshop for Students
2024-11-20 12:30 - 13:20 | Room 140
Students, join representatives from Michigan First Credit Union for a workshop on personal finance. Snacks will be provided!
Part 2 of this workshop is on December 4.
Please register here: https://forms.gle/6x7fi2dh9pasKff96

Women's Fellowship for Spouses and Students
2024-11-15 13:00 - 14:00 | Omega Apartments, 3555 Burton St SE, Grand Rapids, MI, 49546, United States
Join Resident Director Bianca de Campos for a time of fellowship, devotions, and prayer for one another!
Address – 3555 Burton St SE, Omega Bd. Apt#4

Healthy Dialogue Series: The 1946 Movie
2024-11-14 18:30 - 21:00 | Calvin University Campus, 3201 Burton St SE, ,, Grand Rapids, MI, 49546, United States
The Healthy Dialogue Series presents a conversation about 1946: The Mistranslation That Shifted Culture, a feature documentary that follows the story of researchers who trace the origins of a mistranslation of the Bible in 1946. It chronicles the discovery of archives at Yale University which cast doubt on any biblical basis for LGBTQIA+ prejudice. Featuring commentary from scholars as well as opposing pastors, including the personal stories of the film’s creators, 1946 is at once challenging, enlightening, and inspiring.
Following the showing of the film, Trevor Thompson (adjunct professor in Calvin’s Department of Religion and Senior Acquisitions Editor at Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company) will guide us in a conversation with Dr. David Lincicum (Professor of Theology at Notre Dame University) and Dr. Jeffrey Weima (Professor of New Testament at Calvin Theological Seminary).
The Healthy Dialogue Series is a collaboration between the Office of the Provost and The Sexuality Series. It reflects Calvin’s commitments to engage challenging conversations with humility, love, charity, and respect, eager to learn with and from each other. It reflects our commitment to understanding better, before we seek to be understood, as well as the vulnerability necessary to listen well and engage with those who perspectives may differ from our own.
Event Schedule (Thursday, November 14, 2024):
All events are in the Bytwerk Theater, DeVos Communication Center

6:30 pm – Film Screening
8:00 pm – Conversation with Q&A

Think Global Thursday Lunch
2024-11-14 12:00 - 12:50, 2024-10-31 12:00 - 12:50 | Upper Room
Join CTS Missionary in Residence Melissa Bos for the Think Global Thursday Lunch series! All in the CTS community – faculty, staff, spouses, students – are invited to participate in this informal lunch conversation about cross-cultural ministry. Check eNews regularly for updated information on registration and featured guests.

Dying of Distress: Despair and Mental Health in Paul
2024-11-07 16:00 - 17:30 | Meeter Center Lecture Hall
The Religion Department of Calvin University will hold a public lecture, titled “Dying of Distress: Despair and Mental Health in Paul,” by Dr. Clair Mesick, Assistant Professor of Religion, Calvin University. The lecture will be held on November 7, 2024, at 4:00 PM at the Meeter Center Lecture Hall.
Dr. Mesick is a scholar of the New Testament and early Christian origins, focusing especially on Paul, the Corinthian correspondence, early church conflict, and the interrelated topics of health, illness, psychology, and emotions.

Healthy Dialogue Series: Fellipe Do Vale
2024-11-05 - 2024-11-06 | Calvin University Campus, 3201 Burton St SE, ,, Grand Rapids, MI, 49546, United States
The Healthy Dialogue Series welcomes Fellipe do Vale, Assistant Professor of Biblical and Systematic Theology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, winner of the 2023 “Emerging Public Intellectual” award, and author of Gender As Love: A Theological Account of Human Identity, Embodied Desire, and Our Social Worlds.
A graduate of Calvin’s Philosophy and Gender Studies departments, Dr. do Vale’s research is primarily on the connection between moral theology and theological anthropology. He focuses on gender, but also writes and teaches on political theology, theology of race, and other aspects of human identity, especially from an eschatological point of view. In Gender as Love, do Vale takes a theological approach to understanding gender, employing both biblical exegesis and historical theology and emphasizing the role human love plays in shaping our identities. His approach is unique in that it avoids the present impasse between social constructionist and biological essentialist paradigms and emphasizes love as identity forming.
The Healthy Dialogue Series is a collaboration between the Office of the Provost and The Sexuality Series. It reflects Calvin’s commitments to engage challenging conversations with humility, love, charity, and respect, eager to learn with and from each other. It reflects our commitment to understanding better, before we seek to be understood, as well as the vulnerability necessary to listen well and engage with those who perspectives may differ from our own.
Tuesday, November 5:

4 pm – Lecture in the Meeter Center Lecture Hall: “Gender and Politics: Progress, Decline, and Our Common Lives”

Wednesday, November 6:

8:30 am – Faculty/Staff Conversation, SC 300
12:20 pm – Clergy Conversation, Calvin Seminary Room 275 (lunch provided) – (This event is open to clergy & seminary students/staff/faculty/alumni. Please rsvp using this link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfIdna5Izu3x7d0qdQfJdGmnStXXEns19IbynP00NvNgMxwvg/viewform)
5:30 pm – Student Conversation, HH 213 (dinner provided)

Women's Fellowship for Spouses & Students
2024-11-01 13:00 - 14:00 | Omega Apartments, 3555 Burton St SE, Grand Rapids, MI, 49546, United States
Women (spouses and students), join Resident Director Bianca de Campos for a time of fellowship, devotions, and prayer for one another! This will take place at Bianca’s home (3555 Burton St SE, Apt. 4).

Film Screening: For Our Daughters
2024-10-29 19:00 - 21:00 | Auditorium
Join the Calvin Seminary & University community for a screening and panel discussion of a new film, For Our Daughters.
Please RSVP here: https://themoviescreener.com/daughters/evite/504039202
For more information on For Our Daughters, visit: https://www.forourdaughtersfilm.com/

Meeter Center Lecture: Seeking Wisdom in Benedictine Spirituality
2024-10-29 15:30 - 16:30 | H. Henry Meeter Center, 1855 Knollcrest Circle Southeast, Grand Rapids, MI, 49546, United States
Amidst overarching secularism in northwestern Europe today, there appears to be an appetite in Germany and the Netherlands for the wisdom rooted in the Benedictine Order of the Roman Catholic church. This presentation explores some of the themes and persons of this trend and suggests reasons for this phenomena.

Reformation Day Craft & Story Time for Kids
2024-10-26 14:30 - 15:30 | Berkhof Apartments, 3521 Burton St SE, Grand Rapids, MI, 49546, United States
Families, join RD’s Eric and Bianca for a craft and story time about Reformation Day! Bring scissors and cookie cutters if you have them (for the craft). This event will take place in the Berkhof apartments basement.

RSAT Game Night
2024-10-25 17:00 - 20:00 | Student Center
Do you like games? Fellowship? FOOD?!
RSAT invites you to the Student Center on Friday, October 25 from 5-8pm. We’ll have pizza, games, and a whole lot of fellowship. Nursery will be provided for young kids, and plenty of games will be ready for you to play. Feel free to bring your own games as well! We hope to see you there; no RSVP required.
