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Celebrating Our Honors Students

by Bob Schoone-Jongen. About a year ago a student walks into my office.  “Hey, professor…,” begins the conversation.  (It may have been just “prof.”)  Anyhow, the conversation immediately turns to an honors thesis: How to do one?  Would I supervise a project?  In my mind there are counter questions: What’s the topic?  Why me?  Do …

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Principled Pluralism and Interreligious Dialogue

by Frans van Liere. Last Thursday, April 25, Calvin College hosted “Principled Pluralism: Navigating America’s Increasingly Diverse Religious Landscape”, a panel discussion on religious pluralism on college campuses, with Joseph DeMott moderating a discussion among Calvin’s president Michael LeRoy, Calvin Theological Seminary president Jul Medenblik, and Alec Hill, the president of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. The …

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