News and History from Heritage Hall
Last year, Dr. Katerberg wrote a post about the other Calvin Colleges (fictional and real). Another fun “Calvin” fact is that the University shares its name with a World War II era ship. During the war, the US government commissioned hundreds of Liberty class ships. …
Most people who know that Calvin Theological Seminary and Calvin University have had more than one campus only know about the “Franklin” campus on what is now Martin Luther King Jr. Street. A few know about the “Madison” campus, at the corner of Madison and …
When did Calvin first graduate students with baccalaureate degrees? (And who was the first student to earn one?) The question might seem straight-forward. Just get the year right. But the past is usually messier than we remember. When we tell the stories of communities and …
Calvin College’s relationship with the University of Michigan began in the 1890s. In its founding in 1876 the Theological School (as the seminary was known then) had created a “literary” program to prepare students with no high school education for its theological program. In the …
“The” Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, is not the only Calvin College there has been in the United States. There were two others. One existed in a comic book universe where a superhero, Al Pratt, AKA The Atom, was a student majoring in nuclear …
“Family stories” can mean a lot of things. For the Spring 2024 issue of Origins, it means two things: stories about families in the literal sense and stories that expand and diversify how we think about the Reformed “family.” This blogpost includes one of those …
First some context. Leaders at Calvin College and leaders and members of the Christian Reformed Church worried about the morality and Christian faithfulness of students at the College. Some feared that it was becoming a hotbed of radicalism. The country was in the midst of …
The First Annual Conference of the League of Evangelical Students was held in Grand Rapids at Calvin College and Seminary in late 1925. The event made the cover of December 4 edition of The Banner, the flagship English language magazine of the Christian Reformed Church …
The 1946-1947 school year saw the opening of the “Alexander Lodge” as a dorm for Calvin College men. It was located at 1010 Alexander Street SE. Ninety men started out the year in the dorm. “Army cots, cold showers, bleak rooms, and workmen still on …
In the 1920s, the Christian Reformed Church debated the doctrine of common grace. Synod’s affirmation of this doctrine led a small group to separate from the CRC and form the Protestant Reformed Church. But the theological defense of the potential good of non-Christian— “worldly” —culture …