Zach Kern is a freshman who has yet to declare an area of study but is considering marketing, sports communications, and journalism. When not sports reporting for chimes, Zach could be found mountain ...

Editor’s note: One of the enduring issues of this school year for the Calvin community at large has been clarifying the university’s relationship with the Christian Reformed Church in North America, ...

Neland Avenue Christian Reformed Church appointed a congregant who is in a same-sex marriage as deacon this past summer. According to Council President Larry Louters, they are the only congregation in ...

In the 102 years that Student Senate has existed, we’ve never had an openly gay student body president. It’s beyond time that the LGBTQ community is represented in the highest student leadership ...

Walk into any bookstore these days and I assure you, you will find some table or display dedicated to Sarah J. Maas. She is a current New York Times bestselling author, and you cannot scroll through ...

I’ll start (somewhat circuitously) by establishing a foundation for all this – the reality of the purpose of government. The government exists “of the people, by the people, and for the people.” If ...

Last week, the Healthy Dialogue Series featured a documentary showing and subsequent conversation about the issues of homosexuality in the Bible. Chimes followed up with Dr. David Lincicum, Associate ...

Donald Trump is not a Christian. Marcail Schuurmann, who argued last week that Trump fails to represent Christian values, will, I’m sure, be glad to know this. This might come as a surprise to some ...

Today, Republican presidential hopeful Nikki Haley will be the latest in a long line of political candidates to make a stop in Grand Rapids in recent years. As Haley hopes to thwart former President ...

Last weekend, before the election, I saw a post circulating around Instagram by influencer Cole LaBrant. A somber photo shows LaBrant with his hand on the shoulder of now President-elect Donald Trump, ...

Last week, I learned that my spring Spanish elective, Hispanic Culture in the U.S., was canceled. Only eight students enrolled, and according to the Spanish department’s email to those eight students, ...

Ten years! Ten years of transforming lives, not just of the incarcerated students enrolled in Calvin Prison Initiative (CPI), but also the lives of those whom they impact daily. This impact has been ...