IRT Affiliate News

The Calvin Institute of Christian Worship

The Calvin Institute of Christian Worship offers both rigorous scholarship and practical resources to enrich Christian worship in churches throughout North America. 

January 24-26, 2008: Calvin Symposium on Worship (conference)
Calvin College & Calvin Seminary, Grand Rapids, Michigan
The Calvin Symposium on Worship seeks the deepening and integration of all aspects of worship. As worshipers, there is a concentration on specific interests and gifts in seminars and workshops, and experience their integration into the full mission of worship as participants gather for the Symposium's worship services. In interdisciplinary and ecumenical conversations, searching questions are asked, dilemmas exchanges, and encouragement is given to others. Participants leave with a renewed commitment to the full ministry of the church. For further details go to http://www.calvin.edu/worship/sympos/index.php. 

For more information on these and other events, go to http://www.calvin.edu/worship/, call (616) 526-6088, or write the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship, 1855 Knollcrest Circle SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49546-4402.

H. Henry Meeter Center for Calvin Studies 

The H. Henry Meeter Center for Calvin Studies is a research center specializing in John Calvin and Calvinism that opened in 1981 and is located at Calvin College and Calvin Theological Seminary in Grand Rapids, Michigan. 

August 21 - 23, 2007: 10^th Asian Congress on Calvin Research
National Olympics Memorial Youth Center, Tokyo, Japan
The 10^th Asian Congress on Calvin Research will take place at the National Olympics Memorial Youth Center in Tokyo. The title of the conference is Calvin: toujours nouveau and the main lecture will be "Calvin's Doctrine of the Holy Supper" offered by Dr. Wim Janse of Leiden University. For more details visit http://accr2007.protestant.jp/2007/05/top.html. 

November 15, 2007: Fall Colloquium
Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI
The Meeter Center's 2007 Fall Colloquium will feature Dr. Charles Gunnoe of Aquinas College speaking on "German Calvinism in Crisis: The Heidelberg Conflict over Church Discipline 1568-1571". For more information, go to http://www.calvin.edu/meeter/events/. 

For more information about these and other events, call (616) 526-7081 or check their website: www.calvin.edu/meeter.

The Reformed Institute of Metropolitan Washington 

The Reformed Institute of Metropolitan Washington is a consortium of seven Presbyterian churches in the Maryland, Northern Virginia, and Washington, DC area. Their purpose is to promote the understanding and appreciation of the Reformed tradition among Presbyterians living in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. 

The Institute will hold a number of events for 2007-2008. Included in these events are several courses exploring the Reformed tradition, courses in leadership development, two “occasional events,” and an annual convocation. The occasional events will feature lectures by Dr. John de Gruchy, formerly of the University of Capetown, on November 3, 2007 and by Dr. Henry Ferry, of the Institute’s Company of Teachers, on February 9, 2008.  The annual convocation on January 26, 2008 will present as keynote speaker, Nicholas Wolterstorff. 

Complete information on these and other events will be posted on their website in late August at: http://www.reformedinstitute.org/index2.html or you may contact the program coordinator, Mary Hill, at mhill@reformedinstitute.org.