Reformer’s 500th birthday draws out diverse cast of admirers. Known as a divisive theologian, John Calvin has become a unifying figure 500 years after his birth on July 10, 1509. Already several ...

Just say the word - Calvinism - and you will draw frowns. When John L. Thompson's daughter brought home her civics textbook a few years ago, he noticed there was a short section on John Calvin, the ...

You may find members of Presbyterian and Reformed churches more theologically engaged than usual these days. This year marks the 500th anniversary of John Calvin’s birth. I decided to observe the ...

English professor James Vanden Bosch donned the traditional black garb to play John Calvin on the reformer's 502nd birthday. Read his speech and a short Q&A about the responsibilities of playing John ...

John Calvin’s “Institutes of the Christian Religion” is considered a defining book of the Reformation and a pillar of Protestant theology. First published in Latin in 1536 and in Calvin’s native ...

(RNS) Nearly 35 years after conservatives launched a takeover of the Southern Baptist Convention, a new divide over Calvinism threatens to upend the nation's largest Protestant denomination. (RNS) ...

Why the 500-year-old Reformer retains an enthusiastic following today. Few figures in Christian history have been esteemed so highly or despised so meanly as the shy French lawyer born 500 years ago ...