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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Today, Republican presidential hopeful Nikki Haley will be the latest in a long line of political candidates to make a stop in Grand Rapids in recent years. As Haley hopes to thwart former President ...

I’ll start (somewhat circuitously) by establishing a foundation for all this – the reality of the purpose of government. The government exists “of the people, by the people, and for the people.” If ...

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 ...

In the past two years, LGBTQ+ issues have been a topic of heated debate at Calvin, but the university’s policies on same-sex marriage have been causing difficulties for students and employees on both ...

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 ...

Lisa Sharon Harper is a speaker, writer, activist and artist. She is the founder of Freedom Road consulting and the author of many books, including “The Very Good Gospel: How Everything Wrong Can Be ...

“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 ...

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 ...