Life is about constant discovery. Never staying static in your understanding. Always looking for new sources of insight and inspiration. And that’s why the January Series was created. The January Series is a lecture series that takes place each year at Calvin University that nurtures curiosity and knowledge, creates lifelong learners, and builds conversations that create better global citizens in God’s world. An educational outreach on behalf of Calvin University, containing brilliant speakers, fascinating topics, enlightened conversation, and surprising discoveries. By promoting education, civic engagement, and open inquiry, we’re growing a community of lifelong learners who don’t want to be passive observers but active participants in creating a better, more inspired, more inclusive world.
More recent recordings are available with closed-captioning on YouTube.
Submissions from 1990
Friends of the Groom (audio), Friends of the Groom
From the Ridiculous to the Divine (audio), Friends of the Groom
Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Accidents, Nuclear War. Final Warning: The Legacy of Chernobyl (audio), Robert P. Gale
Beethoven Revisited in the Era of AIDS (audio), Phillip Hoekstra
The Death of Ethics in America: Overcoming Evil in a Fallen World (audio), Cal Thomas
Submissions from 1989
Cotton Mather, Joseph McCarthy, Leo Peters & the Hunt for Witches (audio), James Bratt
Faith and Evolution (audio), Alvin Plantinga
Submissions from 1988
Nuclear Winter: Snowjob or Science? (audio), Thomas Ackerman
Afro-American Poetry (audio), Abraham Davis Jr.
Dramatic Readings of Afro-American Poetry (audio), Abraham Davis Jr.