Welcome to the January Series of Calvin University
The January Series is a FREE 15-day lecture series that takes place each year at Calvin University and aims to cultivate deep thought and conversations about important issues of the day in order to inspire cultural renewal and make us better global citizens in God's world.
In July 2022, we released three online-only lectures as part of our January Series in July. Click on January Series in July for more information.
The Archives
Recordings of past speakers who allowed us to record their presentations are available in The Archives (or search by last name at right).
Past Speakers: A-Z
- The 5 Browns 2020
- James Abbington 2008
- Elizabeth Achtemeier 1997
- Thomas Ackerman 1988, 2005
- Roberta Green Ahmanson 2013
- David Aikman 1995
- Deborah Ajakaiye 1996
- Mitch Albom 2020
- Ayaan Hirsi Ali 2009
- Danielle Allen 2021
- Anonymous 4 1995
- Lucille Arking 1988
- W. Dwight Armstrong 2013
- Hanan Ashrawi 2002, 1997
- Reza Aslan 2012
- George Ayittey 2010
- Randall Balmer 2004
- Thomas Banchoff 2000
- Leroy Barber 2016
- Ishmael Beah 2008
- Jeremy Begbie 2014, 2004, 2000
- Sigval Berg 2008
- Elvera Berry 1988
- Michael R. Beschloss 1999
- James H. Billington 1999
- Katherine Boo 2018
- Hessel Bouma, III 1997
- Gregory Boyle 2011
- Brass Band of Battle Creek 1995
- James Bratt 1989
- Kenneth Bratt 1996
- The Brazeal Dennard Chorale 1989
- Christine Brennan 2009
- Douglas Brinkley 2001
- David Broder 2001, 1997, 1994
- Arthur C. Brooks 2010, 2019
- David Brooks 2016
- Christopher Buckley 2007
- Barbara Pierce Bush 2019
- Bobette Buster 2015
- Gaylen Byker 1996
- Ira Byock 2001
- Burl Cain 2010
- Ernest Callenbach 1989
- Calvin Community Drama 2000
- Gloriae Dei Cantores 2007
- Will D. Campbell 1993
- Cantus 2001, 2002
- Harvey Carey 2010
- Joel Carpenter 2004
- Erik W. Carter 2019
- Ruth Carter 2019
- Stephen Carter 1995
- Elias Chacour 2010
- Mark Charles 2017
- Linda Chavez 1991
- Nien Cheng 1989
- Eugene Cho 2017
- Todd Cioffi 2019
- Alyce Claerbaut 2015
- Shane Claiborne 2018
- Chap Clark 2013
- David Clark 1990
- Kelly Clark 2011
- Eleanor Clift 2008
- William Close and the Earth Harp Collective 2016
- Flynn Coleman 2021
- Robert Coles 1991
- Marva Collins 1989
- Francis Collins 1999
- Eileen Collins 2000
- Charles Colson 2002
- Ann Compton 2020
- Neil Conan 2011
- Ellis Cose 1999
- Jeremy Courtney 2013, 2017
- Tony Cox 1989
- Andy Crouch 2011, 2021
- Dinesh D'Souza 1992
- Abraham Davis, Jr. 1988
- Jennifer Pharr Davis 2012
- Taylor Davis 2017
- Marva Dawn 2002
- H.J. de Blij 2004, 2003
- Tim Dean 2006
- Kathleen DeBoer 2005, 2006
- Morris Dees 1997
- Frank Deford 2005, 2001, 2000
- Matt de la Pena 2021
- Rachael Denhollander 2019
- Matthew Desmond 2017
- Craig Detweiler 2015, 2019
- Richard M. DeVos 2010, 1996
- Bert deVries 1991
- Calvin DeWitt 1997
- Michelle DeYoung 2004, 2003
- Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung 2021
- Peter Diamandis 2013
- Elizabeth Dias 2015
- William Diehl 1989
- Doug Diekema 2008
- Bryan Dik 2017
- Jill Dougherty 2016
- James Doyle 2006
- Kimberly Dozier 2010
- Paul Douglas 2014
- Elizabeth Drew 1998
- Michael Eric Dyson 1998
- Early Music Ensemble 1989
- R. David Edelman 2018
- Gerard Edery 2006
- Clyde Edgerton 1994
- Ralph Edmond 2012
- Thomas Edsall 1996
- Jean Bethke Elshtain 1993
- Rod Englert 2003
- Juan Enriquez 2006
- Ensemble Galilei 2011
- Helen Epstein 2009
- Edward E. Ericson, Jr. 1995
- Jeremy Everett 2020
- Deborah & James Fallows 2020
- James Fallows 1997
- Paul Farmer 2005, 2006
- Bruce Feiler 2021
- Jorge Fernandez 1990
- James Fishkin 2015
- Jacqueline Fleming 1988
- Elizabeth Fox-Genovese 1998, 1997
- Douglas Frank 1988
- Howard French 2005
- Tova Friedman 2015
- Friends of the Groom 1998
- Bob Fu 2020
- Francis Fukuyama 1993
- Nicole Baker Fulgham 2014
- Michale Gabriel 1992
- Robert P. Gale 1990
- James Finn Garner 1996
- Laurie Garrett 2016
- William Garvelink 2008, 2021
- Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 2002
- Akbar Gbaja-Biamila 2021
- Glenn Geelhoed 2011
- Eugene Genovese 1998
- Timothy F. George 2008
- Sajan George 2011
- David Gergen 2012
- Michael Gerson 2012
- George Gilder 2004
- Owen Gingerich 1992
- Bob Goff 2014
- Doris Kearns Goodwin 2017
- Karen Gonzalez 2020
- Temple Grandin 2011
- Patrick Gray & Justin Skeesuck 2017
- Andrew M. Greeley 1993
- Brian Greene 2001, 2005
- Syada Greiss 2010
- Michael Griffin 2008
- Douglas Groothuis 1989
- Terry Gross 2000
- Os Guinness 1994, 1990
- Deborah and Loren Haarsma 2009
- Jonathan Haidt 2020
- Tomas Halik 2001
- John E. Hamersma 2006
- June Hamersma 2007
- John Hare 2002
- Robert Harms 2000
- Lisa Sharon Harper 2017
- Stanley Hauerwas 2003
- Gary Haugen 2017
- Michael Hawley 1997
- Katharine Hayhoe 2021
- Joseph Hickerson 1988
- John Hockenberry 1992
- Philip Hoekstra 1990
- Richard Holbrooke 1998
- Henry Holstege 1992
- John R. Horner 1994
- Xiaopo Huang 1990
- Mark Hughes 2003, 2001
- Robert Hughes 2002
- H. Wayne Huizenga 1994
- Todd Huizinga 2017
- Mary Hulst 2018
- James Davison Hunter 1993
- Dr. William Hurlbut 2015
- Donald Hustad 1988
- Saad Eddin Ibrahim 2004
- Immaculee Ilibagiza 2010
- John Inazu 2018
- The Ivory Consort 2005
- Jessica Jackley 2011
- Khalil Jahshan 1996
- Kathleen Hall Jamieson 1999
- Randal M. Jelks 2006
- Philip Jenkins 2006
- Willie Jennings 2019
- Alice Marie Johnson 2020
- Jackson Kaguri 2011
- Carl Kaiser 1990
- Robert D. Kaplan 1999
- Zachary Karabell 2014
- Najla Kassab 2020
- Dr. David Katz 2015
- Garrison Keillor 1999
- Moorehead Kennedy 1989
- Tom Key 1993
- Jean Kilbourne 2002, 1998, 1995, 1993
- Hyesook Kim 1992
- Mike Kim 2013
- Stuart J. Kingma 1999
- The Kings Noyse 2003
- David Kinnaman 2009
- Lily Knight 2011
- Bartha Knoppers 2004
- C. Everett Koop 1996, 1995, 1994, 1991
- Jonathan Kozol 1997
- Jere Krakow 2016
- Charles Krauthammer 2003
- Peter Kreeft 1999
- Nicholas Kristof 2019
- Alexei Kuznetsoff 2001, 2000, 1999
- Steven E. Landsburg 1999
- Richard Lapchick 2004, 2007
- Cleophus LaRue 2004
- Christopher Lasch 1992
- Michael K. Le Roy 2014
- Richard Lederer 1995
- Dai Uk Lee 1990
- John Leo 2002
- Deborah Lew 2012
- Randy Lewis 2018
- Mara Liasson 2000
- Jimmy Lin 2019
- D. Michael Lindsay 2009
- Josh Linkner 2015
- Valentina Lisitsa 2001, 2000, 1999
- Elizabeth Loftus 1996
- Thomas Long 1995
- Louisiana Repertory Jazz Ensemble 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2007
- Glenn Loury 1997
- Larry Louters 2015
- Margaret Lowman 2008
- Luis Lugo 1993
- Gabe Lyons 2012
- Karin Maag 2017
- Victor Makari 2009
- The Mallarme Trio 1991
- Michael Mandelbaum 2008
- Andrew Manze 2002
- John Manzella 2021
- Vsevolod A. Marinov 2005
- George M. Marsden 2016
- George M. Marsden 1995
- Paul Marshall 2015
- Martin Marty 1991
- Frederica Mathewes-Green 2005
- Jack Matlock 1992
- Russell G. Mawby 1989
- Jeremy McCarter 2018
- Bill McKibben 2008
- Max McLean 2010
- Brenda Salter McNeil 2007
- Jon Meacham 2005, 2007
- Michael Medved 1991
- Gilbert Meilaender 2000
- Leland Melvin 2019
- Steven Meyer 2000
- Eric Metaxas 2012
- Robert L. Millet 2013
- Edith Mirante 2012
- Yong Hi Moon 1990
- Richard J. Mouw 1994
- Richard J. Mouw 2013
- Richard J. Mouw 2016
- Charles Murray 1995
- Pashon Murray 2018
- Tony Namkung 2010
- Sonia Nazario 2008
- Gustav Niebuhr 1999
- Pedro Noguera 2012
- Johan Norberg 2020
- Abraham Nussbaum 2017
- Peter O'Connor 2021
- Peter Okaalet 2007
- Kevin Olusola 2018
- Barbara Omolade 2005
- Cathy O'Neil 2020
- Eric O'Neill 2016
- Jeannine Oppewall 1991
- John Ortberg 2009
- Clarence Page 1993
- Kevin Palau 2018
- Parker Palmer 1993
- Eboo Patel 2016
- Katherine Paterson 1994
- Garth Pauley 2013
- John Allen Paulos 1990
- John M. Perkins 2014
- James Peterson 2002
- Eugene Peterson 2006
- Kevin Phillips 1992
- Juliana Geran Pilon 1993
- Wesley Pippert 1989
- Alvin Plantinga 1989, 2000
- Alvin Plantinga 2016
- Leon Plantinga 2004
- Cornelius Plantinga, Jr. 1993, 1997
- Sandra Postel 2020
- Neil Postman 1998
- Kara Powell 2019
- William Powers 2019
- Prague Chamber Orchestra 1998
- Dith Pran 1990
- Soong-Chan Rah 2010
- Mitri Raheb 2016
- William Raspberry 1996
- Bill Rasmussen 2014
- Irina Ratushinskaya 1988
- Diane Ravitch 2001
- Patricia Raybon 2001
- T.R. Reid 2010
- Debra Rienstra 2008
- Jeremy Rifkin 2002, 2001
- Rebecca Rimel 2000
- Cal Ripken, Jr. 2011
- Scott Ritter 1999
- Stephen Ritz 2016
- Eugene Rivers 2004, 2000
- Cokie Roberts 2013
- Marilynne Robinson 2002
- Mary Robinson 2019
- Robert Robinson 2013
- Richard Rodriguez 1994
- William Romanowski 1991
- Robert Rooy 2009
- Jeffrey Rosen 2021
- Paul Rusesabagina 2006
- Fleming Rutledge 2005
- Edward Said 1991
- Roxana Saberi 2015
- Joel Salatin 2012
- Gabriel and Jeanette Salguero 2016
- Reshma Saujani 2017
- Scott Sauls 2021
- Orville Schell 2001
- David Schiedermayer 1992
- Gary D. Schmidt 1999
- Peninnah Schram 2006
- Richard Schultz 1992
- Quentin Schultze 1988, 2003
- Kevin Schut 2014
- Christopher D. Seiple 2008
- Theary Seng 2011
- Jeff Shaara 2007
- Mariela Shaker 2019
- Linda Silverman 2006
- Jerry Sittser 2015
- Justin Skeesuck & Patrick Gray 2017
- James Skillen 2003
- Rebecca Skloot 2013
- Captain Scotty Smiley 2013
- Laura Smit 2007
- Betty Smith 1991
- James K.A. Smith 2010
- Linda Smith 2014
- Tony Snow 1995
- Richard Norton Smith 2009, 2003
- Olympia Snowe 2014
- Ignat Solzhenitsyn 1998
- Thomas Sowell 1992
- Eugene Spafford 2006
- Jonathan Spence 1998
- St. Paul Chamber Orchestra 2000
- Stages Theatre Company 2008
- S. Frederick Starr 2007, 2003, 1997
- Adm. James Stavridis 2015
- Shelby Steele 1991
- Andrew Steer 1993
- Peter Steinfels 2005
- Sandra Steingraber 2009
- Bryan Stevenson 2015
- William R. Stevenson 2001
- Clifford Stoll 1998, 2004
- Harry Stout 1997
- Gerard Thomas Straub 2007
- Michael Suleiman 1988
- Ron Suskind 2016
- Victoria Sweet 2014
- John Swinton 2018
- Ronald Takaki 1995
- Beverly Daniel Tatum 2018
- Adam Taylor 2012
- Barbara Brown Taylor 2003
- Cal Thomas 1990
- Krista Tippett 2011
- Jemar Tisby 2021
- The Tower Brass Ouintet 1988
- Nikki Toyama-Szeto 2011
- Carol Tavris 1994
- Laura Sumner Truax 2018
- Harold Trulear 2009
- Reed Tuckson 1996
- Sherry Turkle 2012
- Jean Twenge 2011
- Art Ulene 1994
- David Van Baak 1998
- Jeff Van Duzer 2013
- Daniel Van Ness 1989
- Paul Vanden Bout 1988
- James VanderKam 2003
- Scott Vander Linde 1994
- Ronald VanderKooi 1991
- John Varineau 2012
- Kurt VerBeek 2016
- Paul Vitz 1988
- Miroslav Volf 2007
- Jimmy Wales 2010
- Amber Warners 2020
- Kathleen Weathers 1991
- Caroline Webb 2018
- Brett Webb-Mitchell 1996
- George Weigel 2006
- Linda Wertheimer 1995
- Cornel West 1994
- Tara Westover 2021
- Barbara Dafoe Whitehead 1999
- Isabel Wilkerson 2014
- Tom Willett 1990
- Bethany Haley Williams 2016
- David Williams 2018
- Juan Williams 1990
- William Willimon 1992
- Garry Wills 1991
- Ian Wilmut 1998
- Lauren F. Winner 2006, 2007
- Jennifer Wiseman 2014
- Brian Wispelwey 1994
- John Witte, Jr. 2009, 1998
- Alan Wolfe 2005
- Nicholas Wolterstorff 1996
- Marsden, Mouw, Plantinga & Wolterstorff 2016
- Todd Wood and Darrel Falk 2020
- Kenneth Woodward 2004
- Donald Worster 2011
- Brian Wren 1990
- N.T. Wright 2017, 2012, 2007, 2003, 2002
- Sharon Cohn Wu 2009
- Sheryl WuDunn 2013
- Robert Wuthnow 1996
- Xavier Davis Trio 2009
- Jenny Yang 2013
- Fareed Zakaria 2004, 2002
- Anne Zaki 2014
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