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All Episodes

The January Series of Calvin University — 132 episodes

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2021 - Scott Sauls "Prophetic Fire and Persuasive Gentleness: Why We Must Have Both"

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2021 - Katharine Hayhoe "Christians, Climate, and Culture"

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2021 - Peter O'Connor "Arts: Healing Balms for a Sick World"

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2021 - Jeffrey Rosen "The Future of the Supreme Court"

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2021- Ambassador William Garvelink "The Future with Pandemics"

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2020- Najla Kassab "The Reformed Church in the Middle East: Hopes and Challenges"

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2020- Karen Gonzalez "The God Who Sees: Immigrants, the Bible, and the Journey to Belong"

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2020- Jeremy Everett "Solving America's Hunger Crisis"

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2020- Bob Fu "When Caesar Demands to be God: Religious Freedom in China"

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2020- Sandra Postel "Replenish: The Virtuous Cycle of Water and Prosperity"

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2020- Todd Charles Wood & Darrel R Falk "Moving Beyond Labels to a Christian Dialogue about Creation and Evolution"

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2020- Amber Warners "The Fierce Humility of Winning"

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2019- Rachael Denhollander - "A Time to Speak: Addressing Justice and Forgiveness"

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2019- Willie Jennings - "Dreaming the End of Racial America"

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2019- Erik W. Carter - "Incomplete Without You: The Church and People with Disabilities"

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2019- William Powers - "Sustainability, Happiness and the 'Slow' Movement"

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2019- Craig Detweiler - "Searching for the Image of God in a Digital Age"

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2019- Kara Powell- "Growing Young: Helping Young People Discover and Love the Church"

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2019- Arthur Brooks- "Bringing America Together"

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2019- Todd Cioffi- "The Transformative and Redemptive Power of (a Christian) Education"

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2018 - John Swinton - Still Waters Run Deep: Reimagining Dementia and Humanness

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2018 - Kevin Palau - Unlikely: Exploring Partnership Between Churches and Cities

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2018 - Beverly Daniel Tatum - Why Are All the Black Kids Still Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?

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2018 - Laura Sumner Truax - Love Let Go: Radical Generosity for the Real World

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2018 - John Inazu - Confident Pluralism: Surviving and Thriving Through Deep Differences

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2018 - Pashon Murray - Detroit Dirt: Zero Waste From the Ground Up

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2018 - Shane Claiborne - Executing Grace: How the Death Penalty Killed Jesus and Why It's Killing Us

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2018 - Randy Lewis - No Greatness Without Goodness: How a Father's Love Changed a Company and Sparked a Movement

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2018 - David R. Williams - Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?

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2018 - Mary Hulst - Why Millennials are the Hope of the Church

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2017 - N.T. Wright - The Royal Revolution: Fresh Perspectives on the Cross

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2017 - Jeremy Courtney - The World is a Scary Place, Love Anyway

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2017 - Bryan Dik - How to Find and Live Your Calling: Lessons From the Psychology of Vocation

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2017 - Eugene Cho - Overrated: Are We More in Love with the Idea of Changing the World Than Actually Changing the World?

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2017 - Lisa Sharon Harper - The Very Good Gospel: How Everything Wrong Can Be Made Right

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2017 - Todd Huizenga - The EU and Global Governance

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2017 - Justin Skeesuck & Patrick Gray - I'll Push You: A Story of Radical Friendship, Overcoming Challenges and the Power of Community

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2017 - Gary Haugen - Until All Are Free: A Look at Slavery Today and the Church’s Invitation to End It

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2017 - Abraham Nussbaum - Tinkering in Today’s Healthcare Factories: Pursuing the Renewal of Medicine

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2017 - Mark Charles - Race, Trauma, and the Doctrine of Discovery

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2017 - Karin Maag - 500 Years Later: Why the Reformation Still Matters

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2016 - Mitri Raheb - A Tough Calling: The Joys and Struggles of Pastoring in Palestine

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2016 - Kurk VerBeek - Reframing Justice: Models from Honduras

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2016 - Gabriel and Jeanette Salguero - How Latino Churches are Changing America

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2016 - Jere L. Krakow - National Parks: America’s Greatest Treasure

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2016 - Leroy Barber - Race, Stories and Justice: A Call for Diversity in Christian Missions

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2016 - Jill Dougherty - Russia: Past, Present and Future

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2016 - Bethany Haley Williams - The Color of Grace: Healing and Hope for the Child Survivors of War

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2016 - Eboo Patel - Interfaith Leadership: Engaging Religious and Philosophical Diversity in the 21st Century

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2016 - Marsden,Mouw, Plantinga, & Wolterstorff - The Renaissance of Christian Thought

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2015 - Jerry Sittser - Adversity and Spiritual Formation

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2015 - Paul Marshall - Persecuted: The Global Assault on Christians

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2015 - Larry Louters - Demonstrating the Wonders of Chemistry: Discovering God’s Majesty in the Minuscule

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2015 - Elizabeth Dias - Covering TIME

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2015 - David Katz - The Rational Un-fattening of America’s Families

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2015 - Alyce Claerbaut - Billy Strayhorn: Beyond the Peaceful Side

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2015 - James Fishkin - When the People Speak: Deliberate Democracy

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2015 - Josh Linkner - The Road to Reinvention: Lessons from the Front Lines of Detroit’s Rebirth

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2015 - Tova Friedman - Kinderlager: Reflections of a Child Holocaust Survivor

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2015 - Craig Detweiler - iGods: How Technology Shapes our Spiritual and Social Lives

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2015 - William Hurlbut - Chemicals to Consciousness: the Mystery of the Human Mind

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2014 - Anne Zaki - Is the Arab Spring the Arab Christian's Fall?

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2014 - Bill Rasmussen - Channeling Sports: A Conversation with ESPN Founder Bill Rasmussen

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2014 - Dr. Victoria Sweet - God's Hotel: A Doctor, A Hospital, and A Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine

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2014 - John Perkins - Love is the Final Fight: The Life and Legacy of John M. Perkins

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2014 - Linda Smith - Renting Lacy: A Story of America's Prostituted Children

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2014 - Michael LeRoy - The Sustainability of Higher Education and the Future or Calvin College

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2014 - Zachary Karabell - Trend and Repeat: What History and Economics can Teach us about the Future

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2014 - Nicole Baker Fulgham - Educating All God's Children

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2014 - Kevin Schut - Of Games & God: A Christian Exploration of Video Games

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2014 - Olympia Snowe - Fighting For Common Ground: How We Can fix the Stalemate in Congress

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2013 - Chap Clark - Sticky Faith

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2013 - Garth Pauley - Rituals of Democracy: Inaugural Addresses in American History

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2013 - W. Dwight Armstrong - Feeding the World and the Future of Farming

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2013 - Jeff Van Duzer - Why Business Matters to God

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2013 - Capt. Scotty Smiley - Hope Unseen

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2013 - Richard Mouw & Robert Millet - Talking With Mormons: An Invitation to Evangelicals

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2013 - Jenny Yang - Welcoming the Stranger: Justice, Compassion and Truth in the Immigration Debate

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2013 - Roberta Green Ahmanson - Inspiration through the Arts

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2013 - Jeremy Courtney - Restoring Hearts in Iraq

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2012 - N.T. Wright - How God Became King

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2012 - Ralph Edmond - Real Solutions for Haiti's Future

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2012 - Joel Salatin - Dancing with Dinner

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2012 - Adam Taylor - Mobilizing Hope: Faith-Inspired Activism for a Post-Civil Rights Generation

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2012 - Jennifer Pharr Davis - Adventures on the Appalachian Trail

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2012 - Michael Gerson - religion and Politics in a New Era

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2012 - Gabe Lyons - The Next Christians: How a New Generation is Restoring the Faith

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2012 - Eric Metaxas - Bonhoeffer:Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy

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2012 - Edith Mirante - Burma on the Brink

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2011 - Sajan George - The Future of Education

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2011 - Donald Worster - John Muir and the Religion of Nature

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2011 - Twesigye Jackson Kaguri - The Price of Stones: Building a School for My Village

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2011 - Nikki Toyama-Szeto - Beyond Multi-Culturalism to True Community

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2011 - Dr. Glenn Geelhoed - Mission to Heal

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2011 - Father Greg Boyle - Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion

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2011 - Andy Crouch - Playing God: Creativity and Cultural Power

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2011 - Temple Grandin - All Kinds of Minds: The Importance of Developing Each Person's Unique Strengths

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2011 -Kelly Clark - Faith and Freedom in Contemporary China

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2011 -Theary Seng - Daughter of the Killing Fields

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2011 - Krista Tippett - Einstein’s God: Conversations about Science and the Human Spirit

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2010 - Elias Chacour - Unity Within Diversity: Myth or Reality?

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2010 - George Ayittey - African Solutions for African Problems

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2010 - Richard De Vos, Sr. - Ten Phrases

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2010 - Soong Chan Rah - The Next Evangelicalism & the Changing Face of American Christians

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2010 - Jimmy Wales - Democracy and the Internet

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2010 - Syada Greiss - Journey To Empowerment: Stories from the Streets of Cairo

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2010 - James K. Smith - Desiring the Kingdom: Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation

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2010 - Burl Cain - Moral Rehabilitation in an Immoral Environment

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2010 - Tony Namkung - The Theology Behind Smart Diplomacy with North Korea

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2010 - Pastor Harvey Carey - Against All Odds

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2010 - Arthur Brooks - The New American Culture War

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2009 - D. Michael Lindsey - Powerful Faith: Evangelicals in American Culture

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2009 - Sharon Cohn Wu - The Pursuit of Justice: Finding Courage Amidst the Chaos of Human Rights Abuses

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2009 - Xavier Davis Trio - The Language of Jazz

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2009 - Harold Dean Trulear - Beloved Community and Restorative Justice: Toward a Recovery of an Ethic of Restoration in the Churches' Response to Crime and Criminal Behavior

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2009 - Robert Rooy - A Witness to Change: Profiling Microfinance and the Empowerment of Poor Families

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2009 - Helen Epstein - The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West, and the Fight Against AIDS

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2009 - Deborah & Loren Haarsma - Creation, Design, Evolution, and Human Origins

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2009 - Victor Makari - The Continuing Witness and the Future of the Church in the Middle East

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2009 - John Ortberg - Faith & Doubt

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2009 - John Witte, Jr. - Separation of Church and State - Calvin Style: A 500th Anniversary Celebration

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2008 - Douglas Diekema - Love, Justice, and Humility: A Bioethicist meets the Pillow Angel

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2008 - William Garvelink - U.S. Leadership in Responding to the World's Humanitarian Crises

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2008 - Timothy George - Theology for an Age of Terror

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2008 - Meg Lowman - It's a Jungle Up There: Exploration of the Treetops

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2008 - James Abbington - 100 Years of Black Gospel Music in an Hour

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2008 - Sigval Berg - Energy: Our Responsibility

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2008 - Michael Griffin - American Competitiveness: NASA's Role & Everybody's Responsibility

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2008 - Debra Rienstra - Words Wear Out

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2008 - Chris Seiple - Stewarding American Power: Recommendations for the Next President

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2008 - Sonia Nazario - Enrique's Journey

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2008 - Bill McKibben - Deep Economy