When Donald Trump talks about heaven, it’s hard not to wince.  In a recent conversation with reporters, the President said, “You know, there’s no reason to be good. I want to be good so you can prove ...

I am responding to Book IV, 12:20 of early Protestant leader John Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion, where he makes a wholesale attack on the Catholic beliefs and practices of Lent. I ...

Why the 500-year-old Reformer retains an enthusiastic following today. Few figures in Christian history have been esteemed so highly or despised so meanly as the shy French lawyer born 500 years ago ...

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 ...

“On this day, with the setting sun, the brightest light in the world and he who had been the strength of the Church was taken back to heaven.” So wrote Theodore Beza of the passing of John Calvin four ...

John Calvin strides through the Western imagination as a figure of certainty – willing to abandon the church of his youth, burn a heretic, and proclaim double predestination that consigned millions to ...