Calvin Theological Seminary

150th Show on the Road: Holland
2025-10-16 18:00 - 21:00 (America/Detroit) | Ivy House, 3291 Blue Star Highway, Saugatuck, MI, 49453, United States
Since 1876, Calvin Theological Seminary and Calvin University have stood as beacons of Christ’s promise to renew all things. We’re celebrating this legacy at over 30 global locations with our 150th anniversary Calvin on the Road events!
Join us on Thursday, October 16 at 6 p.m. at Ivy House for an evening of:

A joyful celebration of Calvin’s legacy and future
Inspiring campus updates
Connection with Calvin representatives, alumni, & friends
Heavy appetizers & beverages (cash bar available)

This is no ordinary year—and this is no ordinary event. Join us for a can’t-miss evening!
REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED to attend. Click here to purchase tickets ($15/person)!
Parking and Logistics
More information will be provided as the event gets closer!
Dress Code
There’s no formal dress code—your presence is what matters most! That said, we’d love to see Calvin spirit on full display. If you have maroon and gold or Calvin gear, wear it proudly—whether that’s a favorite Calvin sweatshirt, a gold scarf, or a maroon tie. Come as you are—casual, dressy, or anywhere in between. Let’s celebrate 150 years together in true Knight style!

Think Global Lunch
2025-10-20 12:00 - 13:00, 2025-11-13 12:00 - 13:00, 2025-12-03 12:00 - 13:00 | Upper Room
Join Missionary in Residence Melissa Bos for Think Global Lunch! This event features food from around the world and conversations surrounding missions and God’s work in the global church.
Click here to RSVP!

150th Show on the Road: Kalamazoo
2025-10-20 18:00 - 21:00 | Bell’s Brewery, 355 E. Kalamazoo Avenue, Kalamazoo, MI, 49007, United States
Since 1876, Calvin Theological Seminary and Calvin University have stood as beacons of Christ’s promise to renew all things. We’re celebrating this legacy at over 30 global locations with our 150th anniversary Calvin on the Road events!
Join us on Monday, October 20 at 6 p.m. at Bell’s Brewery for an evening of:

A joyful celebration of Calvin’s legacy and future
Inspiring campus updates
Connection with Calvin representatives, alumni, & friends
Heavy appetizers & beverages (cash bar available)

This is no ordinary year—and this is no ordinary event. Join us for a can’t-miss evening!
REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED to attend. Click here to purchase tickets ($10/person)!
Parking and Logistics
More information will be provided as the event gets closer!
Dress Code
There’s no formal dress code—your presence is what matters most! That said, we’d love to see Calvin spirit on full display. If you have maroon and gold or Calvin gear, wear it proudly—whether that’s a favorite Calvin sweatshirt, a gold scarf, or a maroon tie. Come as you are—casual, dressy, or anywhere in between. Let’s celebrate 150 years together in true Knight style!

Public Reading of Scripture
2025-10-21 12:00 - 13:00, 2025-10-28 12:00 - 13:00, 2025-11-04 12:00 - 13:00, 2025-11-11 12:00 - 13:00, 2025-11-18 12:00 - 13:00, 2025-12-02 12:00 - 13:00 | Student Center
Join us each week for Public Reading of Scripture, followed by lunch!

Chapel and Fellowship
2025-10-22 10:30 - 11:30, 2025-10-29 10:30 - 11:30, 2025-11-05 10:30 - 11:30, 2025-11-12 10:30 - 11:30, 2025-11-19 10:30 - 11:30, 2025-12-03 10:30 - 11:30 | Chapel
Join the Calvin Seminary community for chapel at 10:30 am, followed by donut fellowship in the Student Center!
Can’t attend in person? Want to re-watch a chapel service you enjoyed? Head to Calvin Seminary’s YouTube channel for the full archive of chapel livestreams.

150th Celebration: Reformed Touchstones Lecture
2025-10-23 16:00 - 19:00 | Auditorium
Join us for an evening of discovery and reflection as Dr. Karin Maag and Sam Ha explore how Reformed Christians have engaged Scripture across the centuries.
Dr. Maag will open with a fascinating look at how the Bible was printed, distributed, and read during the Reformation, featuring rare early modern Bibles from the Meeter Center’s collection. Then, Sam Ha will offer insight into John Calvin’s deeply pastoral approach to Scripture, showing how his reading of suffering brought comfort and courage to believers in hard times.

Come early for refreshments and conversation, and stay for a thought-provoking evening that connects our Reformed heritage to the ways we continue to read and live out Scripture today.

Can’t attend in person? Join us via livestream: https://www.youtube.com/live/YuAicXBMiFI
When: Oct. 23 (light hors d’oeuvres starting at 4 pm) at 4:30 pm
Where: Calvin Seminary Auditorium

RSAT Game Night
2025-10-24 17:00 - 20:00 | Student Center
Join RSAT for game night! Pizza will be provided, along with movies and activities for kids – bring your whole family!
To help RSAT plan for food, please click here to RSVP!

Apartments Ribbon Cutting
2025-10-30 09:00 - 12:00 | Calvin Theological Seminary, 3233 Burton ST SE, Grand Rapids, MI, 49519, United States
You’re invited to celebrate with the Calvin Seminary community at our Ribbon Cutting Ceremony at the new student apartments! This event will take place at the new apartments (3300 Burton St.) from 9 – 11 am, and will offer tours, refreshments, and a brief celebration ceremony, which will begin at 10 am. All are invited! Please RSVP to Laura Palsrok (semevents@calvinseminary.edu) by Thursday, October 23.
Click here for the formal press release about this project!

150th Show on the Road: Grand Rapids
2025-10-30 18:00 - 21:00 | Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, 1000 E Beltline Ave NE, Grand Rapids, MI, 49525
Since 1876, Calvin Theological Seminary and Calvin University have stood as beacons of Christ’s promise to renew all things. We’re celebrating this legacy at over 30 global locations with our 150th anniversary Calvin on the Road events!
Join us on Thursday, October 30 at 6 p.m. at Frederick Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park for an evening of:

A joyful celebration of Calvin’s legacy and future
Inspiring campus updates
Connection with Calvin representatives, alumni, & friends
Heavy appetizers & beverages (cash bar available)

This is no ordinary year—and this is no ordinary event. Join us for a can’t-miss evening!
REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED to attend. Click here to purchase tickets ($15/person)!
Parking and Logistics
More information will be provided as the event gets closer!
Dress Code
There’s no formal dress code—your presence is what matters most! That said, we’d love to see Calvin spirit on full display. If you have maroon and gold or Calvin gear, wear it proudly—whether that’s a favorite Calvin sweatshirt, a gold scarf, or a maroon tie. Come as you are—casual, dressy, or anywhere in between. Let’s celebrate 150 years together in true Knight style!

Mark Braverman Lecture
2025-11-06 15:30 - 17:00 | Calvin University Campus, 3201 Burton St SE, ,, Grand Rapids, MI, 49546, United States
Location: Calvin University, Science Building Classroom 110
Host/Contact: Frans van Liere (frans.vanliere@calvin.edu), Department of Historical Studies, Calvin University
Lecture Title: “My conversion from Zionism: the challenge to the church in the age of Gaza” by Dr. Mark Braverman
Dr. Mark Braverman is a Jewish American who has been deeply involved in the international church movement for Palestinian rights for the past two decades. Raised in the potent combination of rabbinic Judaism and political Zionism that has come to dominate Jewish identity, Dr. Braverman’s encounter with the occupation of Palestine and the theology of the Palestinian Christians led him to question Zionism not only from a human rights perspective but with regard to core theological concepts and our understanding of the Bible. Dr. Braverman will discuss the historical context for the October 7 2023 attack and the theological, hermeneutical, ecclesiological and interfaith issues arising from Israel and Palestine that confront the church and Christian institutions of higher learning today. Dr. Braverman is Executive Director of Kairos USA. He is Research Fellow in Systematic Theology and Ecclesiology at Stellenbosch University in South Africa and affiliate faculty at St. Stephen’s University in St. Stephen, Canada. He has lectured and trained extensively in the United States and internationally on Kairos theology, Christian Zionism, post-holocaust theology, and Christian-Jewish relations. He the author of two books and numerous journal articles and book chapters. His sermons and other writings can be found at markbraverman.org.
Sponsored by: Calvin University Department of Historical Studies and Department of Sociology and Social Work, in collaboration with Kairos West Michigan.

Healthy Dialogue Series: Preston Sprinkle
2025-11-10 12:00 - 19:00 | Calvin Theological Seminary, 3233 Burton ST SE, Grand Rapids, MI, 49519, United States
Join Calvin Seminary and Calvin University for the Healthy Dialogue Series, featuring Preston Sprinkle.
Lunch: 12 pm, Calvin Theological Seminary, Upper Room 275 (CLICK HERE to RSVP)
Lecture: 7 pm, Calvin Theological Seminary, Auditorium (no RSVP required)

Site Visit: Grand Rapids Buddhist Temple
2025-11-11 18:00 - 19:30
Join Melissa to attend a Sacred Site Visit with Kaufman Institute to Grand Rapids Buddhist Temple on Tuesday, November 11, 6-7:30pm. Meet at CTS Student Center at 5:30 to carpool to the event. RSVP by Friday, November 7 by emailing Melissa at mbos@crcna.org and she will register you for the event.

The Stob Lecture with Dr. Christopher Watkin
2025-11-18 17:30 - 19:00 | Auditorium
Tuesday, November 18, 2025 — 6:00 p.m.(Hors d’oeuvres served at 5:30 p.m.)Calvin Theological Seminary Auditorium — or join via livestream on YouTube
Lecture information: We are living, Dr. Christopher Watkin argues, in AI’s “horseless carriage moment”: a formative window in which our choices will shape human-technology relations for decades to come. Rather than defending an ever-shrinking “humanity of the gaps” or sprinting uncritically toward a dehumanizing AI future, this lecture sketches a path toward a thicker, biblical vision of creaturely dignity, work, and hope.
About the speaker: Christopher Watkin is Associate Professor of French Studies at Monash University in Melbourne. His research explores modern and contemporary European thought, especially where philosophy, theology, and cultural critique intersect. He is the author of numerous works, including Difficult Atheism, French Philosophy Today, and the multi-award-winning Biblical Critical Theory—named Christianity Today’s 2024 Book of the Year. In all his writing he seeks to make sense of how people make sense of life. Find him on X at @DrChrisWatkin, and access many of his Christian talks and interviews at thinkingthroughthebible.com.

Trauma Healing Institute Information Session
2025-11-19 12:00 - 13:00 | Room 146
Learn about Trauma Healing Institute materials, Melissa’s experience offering sessions using these materials to people from all over the world, and how to get more involved. Click here for the informational flyer!
Please RSVP for lunch order by Tuesday Nov 18 at noon using the Google Form (CLICK HERE) – any questions, please ask Melissa at mbos@crcna.org

Monthly Mini Colloquium
2025-11-20 12:00 - 13:00 | Student Center
Hosted by Dr. Yudha Thianto, join us for lunch and conversation with a faculty speaker, who will be sharing about their current research.
Faculty Speaker: Albert Strydhorst
Sign Up Sheet: click here – RSVP is required

US Thanksgiving Break (No Classes)
2025-11-24 - 2025-11-28 | Calvin Theological Seminary, 3233 Burton ST SE, Grand Rapids, MI, 49519, United States

International Thanksgiving Gathering
2025-11-25 18:00 - 21:00 | Calvin Theological Seminary, 3233 Burton ST SE, Grand Rapids, MI, 49519, United States
Join hosts Carl Bosma and Melissa Bos for an International Thanksgiving Gathering on Tuesday, November 25. A brief Thanksgiving celebration will be at 6 pm in the Chapel, followed by dinner in the Student Center at 6:30 pm. Please RSVP to Melissa Bos (mbos@crcna.org) by Friday, November 21 if you’re planning to attend.

RSAT Thanksgiving Dinner
2025-11-28 17:30 - 20:00 | Student Center
Join RSAT for the annual Thanksgiving dinner celebration!
RSVPs are required – click here.
