Dr. Lyle Bierma and Dr. Yudha Thianto discuss aspects of baptism in the Reformed church.  Lyle Bierma is professor of historical theology at Calvin Theological Seminary.  His upcoming book, _Font of Pardon and New Life: John Calvin and the Efficacy of Baptism_, will be published by Oxford University Press in early 2021.  He talks here about Calvin’s theology of baptism.  Yudha Thianto is professor of theology at Trinity Christian College, and here he discusses his research on the practice of Reformed baptism in seventeenth-century Java. Unfortunately the recording begins about three minutes in, so the introductions are missing, but the rest is still worth hearing.  Have a listen.

Listen in as Dr. Maag talks with Rebekah Earnshaw, assistant professor of theology at Dordt University.  Dr. Earnshaw recently published _Creator and Creation According to Calvin_ on Genesis (July 2020 Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Verlage).

In this Reformations Conversation, Dr. Maag chats with Richard Muller, whose latest book, _Grace and Freedom: William Perkins and the Early Modern Understanding of Free Choice and Divine Grace_, is just out with Oxford University Press.  Dr. Muller is the PJ Zondervan Professor Emeritus at Calvin Theological Seminary, and the Senior Fellow at the Junius Institute for Digital Reformation Research.  Have a listen.

Join us for the next in our series of interviews with authors of recent books on Calvin, Calvinism, and the Reformation. Today's conversation features Dr. Forrest Buckner from Whitworth University on his recent book, _Uncovering Calvin's God: John Calvin on Predestination and the Love of God (Fortress Academic, August 2020).

Listen in as Meeter Center director Karin Maag interviews Dr. Barbara Pitkin (Stanford University) on her brand-new book, _Calvin, the Bible, and History_, published by Oxford University Press in June 2020.

Meeter Center Director Dr. Karin Maag chats with Dr. Frans van Liere, Professor of History at Calvin University.  Listen in as they discuss the advantages and shortcomings of using digitized scholarly materials, as well as scholars' growing interest in medieval Africa and Asia.

This time, Dr. Maag chats with Stephan Van der Watt, our inaugural recipient for the Meeter Family Fellowship.  Dr. Van der Watt, who grew up in South Africa, now teaches pastoral theology and care at Kobe Reformed Theological Seminary in Japan.   His experiences have given him a unique and valuable perspective on presenting Reformed ideas in a contemporary and non-European context.

In this episode, Meeter Center Director Dr. Karin Maag sits down with Martin Klauber, 2019 recipient of the Emo Van Halsema Fellowship at the Meeter Center. Dr. Klauber studied under Bob Kingdon at the University of Wisconsin, and now teaches at the Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Illinois.  

In this episode, Meeter Center Director Dr. Karin Maag chats with Dr. Alice Chapman, Associate Professor of History at Grand Valley State University. Dr. Chapman discusses how a physiology major at Utah State became a professor of Medieval history, and why the Meeter Center and Hekman Library are such valuable resources for her work.

In this episode, Meeter Center Director Dr. Karin Maag chats with Paul Fields about curating the Meeter Center collection, the importance of rare 16th-century books you can actually touch, and why it matters that scholars can research and work in person at the Meeter Center.  Mr. Fields is the Meeter Center Curator and the theological librarian on the fourth floor of Hekman Library at Calvin University.