I can see why John Calvin wanted to come to Strasbourg. Calvin described himself as “a man of the country and a lover of shade and leisure.” He was seeking, he wrote, a place where he could enjoy, “unknown, in some corner, the quiet long denied me.”
When we scrape away the mythology and see John Calvin for what he really was, something unexpected emerges.
I would have loved to sit through these lectures, which were given at St. Andrew’s Hall, Vancouver, and the Presbyterian College, Montreal, in the fall of 2009 to celebrate the 500th anniversary of John Calvin’s birth.
Clergy leave ministry every year. Many of them are emotionally and spiritually wounded. Can a 16th century system help these men and women continue in their calling?
Jeremiah imagines God tattooing us with the word. Inking the law under our skin. Onto our hearts.
One message, written by Rev. Dorothy Henderson of The Vine at national offices. One man, John Calvin, whose 500th birthday was celebrated earlier this year. […]