A small book from long ago will make a big impact at Calvin College for years to come. The college's H. Henry Meeter Center for Calvin Studies recently purchased a copy of "Congrégation sur l’élection ...

The Reformer’s theology informed his compassion for the afflicted. No list of the great men of Protestantism is complete without John Calvin. Born in 1509 in Noyon, France, most of us today know ...

Bernard Cottret set out to replace the commonplace, static picture most people have of John Calvin as "a doctrinaire divider, attached to his own ideas to the point of fanaticism" with "a portrait in ...

The two big obstacles to admiring Calvin are a chill authoritarianism and his repulsive doctrine of double predestination, says Christopher Howse. It is 500 years since the birth of John Calvin, that ...

Well, it's not an official holiday, but it is the birthday of the 16th century French Reformer and founder of Presbyterianism. Calvin was born on this date in 1509. I marked the 500th anniversary of ...