Wondering how to celebrate Jean Calvin’s 500th birthday? Here’s a few ideas:
- Knox and Emmanuel Colleges, Toronto—Rediscovering Calvin; June 18 to 20, 2009. Speakers will include Rev. Dr. Serene Jones, president of Union Theological Seminary, New York, Rev. Prof. Alister McGrath, head of the Centre for Theology, Religion and Culture at King’s College, London, and Marilynne Robinson, award-winning author of Housekeeping, Gilead and Home. Registration for the event closes May 31.
- St. Andrew’s Hall, Vancouver—Calvin @ 500; September 24 to 25. Keynote speaker Dr. Bruce Gordon, professor of Reformation History at Yale University Divinity School.
- Presbyterian College and the Church of St. Andrew and St. Paul, Montreal—Calvin and the Christian Faith Today: October 29 to 30. Keynote speaker Rev. Dr. Randall C. Zachman is professor of Reformation Studies at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana.
- Geneva, Switzerland—Calvin Jubilee, the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, May 29 to June 3. Participants are expected to hail from Asia, North America, Europe, Latin America, Africa, the Pacific and the Caribbean. For more WARC-related events around the world: calvin09.org/EN/eventpool.
