Calvin College will celebrate a milestone birthday in honor of its namesake, John Calvin, this week. The 16th-century Protestant Reformer was born on July 10, 1509, making this year his 500th. The ...
GENEVA - John Calvin, the Great Reformer, used dictatorial means in making Geneva a "Protestant Rome," but he also planted the seeds of modern democracy. He enforced rigid morality and stressed the ...
When I was in graduate school, I wryly referred to myself as the most Reformed living human since John Calvin. To my surprise, this assertion did not win me friends or influence people. A cradle ...