Danjuma Gibson recently took a class from Calvin Seminary to the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum to wrestle with questions about theology, suffering, and oppression. He reflects on the impact of those visits on participants.

Tracing the paths of biblical history in the Holy Land gives new dimensions to our reading of Scripture. But today, Israel and Palestine lie at the center of intense conflict. Gary Burge has spent a career studying and traveling to the Holy Land. He talks about navigating its paths and guiding students on their own experiences there.

Justo González is one of the world’s leading theologians, and a prominent voice in calling the global church to recognize the presence and perspectives of Latino and Latina Christians. In this conversation, he and Mariano Avila reflect on their experiences as Latino scholars, examine recent social changes in North American Christianity, and imagine the future of Latino theological education.

What is the legacy of the Protestant Reformation, five centuries after it began? What signs of conflict and healing within the church can we see today? What principles and practices guided the young Protestant church, which ones should we recover, and which might we avoid? Karin Maag and Lyle Bierma discussed the legacy of the Reformation during its 500th anniversary year.

Karin Maag is the Director of the H. Henry Meeter Center for Calvin Studies and adjunct professor of church history at Calvin Seminary. She is the author of Does the Reformation Still Matter?

Lyle Bierma is professor of church history and Director of Doctoral Studies at Calvin Seminary. His most recent book is The Theology of the Heidelberg Catechism: A Reformation Synthesis.

Show Notes

Learn more about Does the Reformation Still Matter? by Karin Maag

Watch Karin Maag’s address to the January Series of Calvin College on the Reformation

Read Jul Medenblik’s blog reflection on Luther and leadership after traveling to Wittenberg

Read a special edition of the Calvin Seminary Forum on the Five Solas of the Reformation

Learn more about Karin Maag

Learn more about Lyle Bierma

Learn more about the Meeter Center for Calvin Studies

In her new book A Little Handbook for Preachers: Ten Practical Ways to a Better Sermon by Sunday,  Mary Hulst offers wisdom from a career of preaching and teaching preaching, on everything from the logistics of preparing to preach to reflections on the meaning and purpose of preaching. She has insights, encouragement, and ideas to offer pastors who preach sermons and listeners who hear them, calling the church to delve deeply into Scripture.

Mary Hulst is Chaplain at Calvin College. She is a graduate of Calvin Theological Seminary and former senior pastor at Eastern Avenue Christian Reformed Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She holds a PhD in communication ethics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is a former professor of Communication Arts and Sciences at Calvin College and professor or preaching at Calvin Seminary.

Laura de Jong is a pastor at Second Christian Reformed Church in Grand Haven, Michigan.

Show Notes

Learn more and read a sample of A Little Handbook for Preachers from Google Books

Watch or listen to Mary Hulst’s presentation to the January Series at Calvin College

Read Mary Hulst’s bio from Calvin College

Learn more about Campus Ministries and LOFT at Calvin College

Read a Q&A with Mary in the Calvin College Chimes

Find resources for preaching from the Center for Excellence in Preaching and PreachingandWorship.org

Richard Mouw talks about forming 'standing alongside of' and 'listening to' relationships in the service of the Gospel at the Loving Your Neighbor Today conference at Calvin Seminary

N.T. Wright talks with John Witvliet about the full dimensions of the gospel and resurrection hope.