Thursday, July 24, 2008

Christian art beyond the bordersJuly 18, 2008

Professors and visual artists Jo-Ann Van Reeuwyk and Daniel Garcia took a trip to Indonesia in June that they won't soon forget. Insights they took in from Christian artists along the way are bound to trickle back into the classroom at Calvin.

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After graduation, the road less traveled July 18, 2008

Calvin engineering student Jon Cooper ’08 is taking the path less traveled after graduation. He hopes it will make all the difference for Cambodian farmers.

A serious celebration for John Calvin
July 10, 2008

Where will you find most Calvin faculty, staff and students on the morning of July 10? Not in the office or classroom.

Thinking matters
July 7, 2008

Alvin Plantinga elaborates on matters of faith and reason in an interview with communication and marketing's Ashleigh Draft.

Other headlines

• Background information on faculty membership requirements
• Faculty profile: Corwin Smidt
• Huizenga Center nears opening day
• Four awards in 48 hours
• Faculty profile: John Witvliet
  
• Where the wild things are at Calvin
• Faculty profile: Jim Jadrich
• Heart and soul
• Faculty profile: Don De Graaf
• Wittingen victorious at NCAA III championship
• Seminar to bring Chinese scholars and students to Calvin

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Sophomore cyclist blogs

A Calvin sophomore is biking across the country as part of the Sea to Sea tour, an effort intended to eradicate poverty. Lisa Brouwer is part of a group of 127 cyclists, including many Calvin alumni and students, doing the entire route from the Washington to New Jersey. Another hundred or so riders are doing portions of the trip. Lisa is biking with her father, Bob Brouwer. Follow their blog for more details.

Summer camp slide show

Each summer the Wetlands and Woodlands camps at Calvin, run by Jeanette Henderson, provide a hands-on learning adventure for children ages four to eight with Calvin's expansive Ecosystem Preserve serving as the backdrop for the experience. Recently the Grand Rapids Press created an online slide show, including an audio track featuring an interview with camp counselor and junior Jodi Unema, after visiting one of the camp sessions.

Short-term missions

Kurt Ver Beek, a Calvin College sociology professor who heads up a semester-long off-campus program in Honduras, has done studies on the impact of short-term missions trips by North Americans to foreign countries. His research was included in a July 5, 2008 Washington Post story titled "Churches Retool Mission Trips: Work Abroad Criticized for High Cost and Lack of Value."

Smidt elected to SSSR

Calvin College professor of political science Corwin Smidt, also the director of the college's Paul B. Henry Institute for the Study of Christianity and Politics, has been elected to the governing council of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion. He will serve a three-year term, spanning the 2009, 2010 and 2011 meetings of the organization. The society was founded in 1949 and fosters collaboration among scholars from a range of discipline, including sociology, religious studies, psychology, political science, economics and more.

Grad on path of Immigrants

Calvin graduate Nathan Poel '08 is following the path of illegal immigration into the United States, traveling some 2,700 miles, beginning in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, home to two Calvin College off-campus programs, and finishing in Tucson, Arizona. He and a friend are journeying mostly by bus, making legal border crossings, while also visiting the places where illegal crossings happen. He is also interviewing migrants, their families and government officials.

Watch Nathan talk about his journey on YouTube

Read "Desert Footprints," a blog account of Nathan's trip