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 ...

America is experiencing a Calvinist revival. Or so said Mark Oppenheimer of The New York Times recently. Amidst the boom of this theological framework, Austin Fischer explains why he joined and then ...

Reformed theology is more irenic and diverse than you think, says theologian Oliver Crisp. Few figures in church history have been so much loved or hated, admired or despised as John Calvin. Calvinism ...

“Unless the LORD builds the house, those who build it labor in vain” (Psalm 127:1). In the construction industry, there is a running joke among contractors that when the architects and engineers ...

Yet the movement’s biggest impact may not be in the pews. It’s in publishing circles and on Christian blogs, in divinity schools and at conferences like “Together for the Gospel,” where the rock stars ...

What are the status and prospects of Calvinism in the United States 400 years after the definitive edition of the Institutes of the Christian Religion? They are not good. In fact, they are very bad.

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Calvin professor of philosophy and Worship Institute research fellow James K.A. Smith has written a new book called Letters to a Young Calvinist: An Invitation to the Reformed Tradition. At just 160 ...

Gray Sutanto has a PhD in reformed theology from the University of Edinburgh, and is an elder at Covenant City Church, Jakarta, Indonesia. Tolerance, objectivity, open-mindedness, freedom and ...

An interview with author James K.A. Smith: Calvinism, as you say in the intro to the book, seems to be hip again. Time Magazine recently named Calvinism as one of “10 ideas changing the world right ...