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Three Books from Hearts and Minds PodcastThree Books by Calvin SeerveldJust two months after celebrating the life and work of Walter Brueggemann, we lost another beloved influence on our theological and missional vision. Calvin Seerveld passed away on August 5, 2025. To honor Cal and to consider how his writing and teaching shaped Hearts & Minds, the CCO, and so many lives, we brought CCO staff member and student of Cal, Sean Purcell, on this episode to highlight three wonderful Seerveld books!--To place an order, simply click here and fill out this form: https://www.heartsandmindsbooks.com/orderTi...
2025-08-1338 min
Greatheart's Table16 [Reset]. The Playful PastorThis episode is a reset of one which originally aired in September of 2021. That was a heavy time, and this, a consideration of pastoral playfulness, seemed particularly necessary. That necessity, sadly, remains.
There is so much that can weigh us down, that we forget that God has created us for joy. There is much that tries to extinguish that impulse, to suppress it and obscure it, but now and then, it’s good for us to fan it into flame and just find something that is fun to do and do it, simply for the fun of it...
2025-03-1010 min
At Sea with Justin McRobertsJubilee 2024 - Dr. Elissa Yukiko WeichbrodtShow Notes:[00:02] Introduction by Justin McRoberts – The importance of the Jubilee Conference and its connection to faith, art, and wisdom.[02:29] Elissa Weichbrodt’s background in art and faith – Growing up with a passion for art and balancing that with her Christian faith.[03:45] Discovering theology that embraces both art and faith – Introduction to Calvin Seerveld and Hearts and Minds.[04:49] Encountering discomfort in contemporary art – The role of art in challenging us and making us confront our own blind spots.[06:00] The importance of slowing down in art and life – How art teaches us patience and attentiveness in all areas.[10:43] The risk and bea...
2024-10-1521 min
UNDER THE NOBLE CEDAR podcastChrist Wins the Contest for the Church’s LoveThis sermon was delivered on May 15, 2022 at Catherine Lake Baptist Church. Upon reviewing the sermon, I found this study to be a ready reference to help people on a practical level to see the great difference between lust and love. It stands ready to help those addicted to pornography or those trying to help them. A move must take place from putting off the way the porn addict views people, to how God made people to view people in Christ. It is part of the mind renewing to not merely put off sin, but to take on a new...
2024-08-1359 minThree Books from Hearts and Minds PodcastBONUS EPISODE from the CCO's Summer ConferenceThanks for tuning in to our bonus episode of 3BFHAM! Recorded from the CCO's Summer Conference at Slippery Rock University, Pennsylvania. Summer Conference is the CCO's annual summer training week for our entire staff and we had an evening where we celebrated the books staff have used in their ministries and wanted to give you, the listener, a taste of how we use, and how you could use books in service to others.
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2024-07-2424 min
ExcavateWho Has Bewitched You?Today we’re synthesizing what we’ve been talking about in our last few episodes on the Babylonian exile and the rise of religious imagery and spirituality in pop culture, by discussing New Age spirituality. Things like astrology, manifesting, witchcraft and spells have become increasingly mainstream in the US, particularly among women. These type of practices are not new so we’ll be looking at some passages from the prophets that discuss these forms of spirituality and what drives them. We believe women are by nature highly spiritual, so stewarding our sensitivity to the spiritual realm is more important than ever...
2024-05-151h 15
Christianity for the EverydayPlayfulness, Ageing, and Receiving God’s ‘Hugs’ in Creation with Calvin Seerveld“God wants us to be playful and have some really holy fun in God’s world.”
In this episode of Christianity for the Everyday we have a conversation with Calvin Seerveld who served as professor Emeritus in Aesthetics at the Institute for Christian Studies in Toronto for many years. Now in his 93rd year of life, it was a privilege for us to hear his thoughts on a variety of subjects such as art, God’s call on us to be playful in creation, ageing, reading the Bible, and receiving and embracing the ‘hugs’ God gives his children thr...
2023-02-2456 min
The Laymens Lounge114. Harry van Dyke: A Neo-Calvinist's Retrospect of Lament and CelebrationTranslating Kuyper, the rise of liberalism amongst the ICS and Neo-Calvinists, and reformation not revolution.
In this episode with Harry van Dyke, we talk about translating Kuyper and Groen van Prinsterer, the liberal shift of many Neo-Calvinists and the ICS, sitting under H. Evan Runner, gun control, "Gay Christians", a new Neo-Calvinist research center, and growing up and playing on the same streets as Geerhardus Vos.
Steve Bishop
Ruben Alvarado
Francis Schaeffer
Hans Rookmaaker
H. Evan Runner
C.S. Lewis
Gordon Spykman
2022-08-101h 37
Veritas Community Church SermonsKeeping Hope Alive - Psalms 13 - Hope Lives OnBIG IDEA: When Enmity is strong and God seems gone, the Word of the LORD lets Hope live on...1. In Sorrow-Filled Longing2. In Sleep-Defying Prayer3. In Scripture-Ripened SingingRESOURCES: Psalms (Evangelical Biblical Theological Commentary) by James M Hamilton Jr.; Psalms (Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries) by Tremper Longman III; Psalms By The Day by Alec Motyer; Voicing God's Psalms by Calvin Seerveld; Psalms (Kidner Classic Commentaries) by Derek Kidner; Gentle and Lowly by Dane Ortland; Renewal As a Way of Life by Richard Lovelace; The Voice of the Heart by Chip Dodd...
2022-06-1256 min
In the Studio with Michael CardPrayer And PraiseThis week it's a "classic" session, In The Studio with Michael Card. We'll welcome several friends to the studio to open God’s word and open our eyes and hearts to the ways God is working in the world. We’ll honor the memory of our good friend Dr. Larry Crabb with a Mole End Studio conversation about his book “The Pappa Prayer”. We’ll focus on community with Larry Warren from Leadership International on the work of God in Africa. Then Dr. Calvin Seerveld discusses the creative richness of the Psalms based in his book, “Voicing God’s Psalms”. Hear inspiring m...
2021-06-1452 min
Good TimesReading of Calvin Seerveld s paper on Creativity.Reading Calvin Seerveld - Creativity
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2021-05-2307 min
Know Normal PeopleGeoff HallIn today’s episode, Stephen and Dixie Lee get to know Geoff Hall! From across the pond in Bristol, England, Geoff shares his background from his childhood in Hartlepool and how events in his life draw him to Bristol with his wife. He describes his life as a series of conversation stories that all influence the art and work he shares through writing and film making. This conversation was an absolute delight for us! We hope you enjoy getting to know Geoff as much as we did!Connect with Geoff:
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2021-05-111h 45
Critical FaithReading the Bible with Nik Ansell: Where Do We Go from Here?Can the Bible continue to speak to us today?
In this final episode of our series on reading the Bible with ICS Senior Member in theology Nik Ansell, special guest Mike Wagenman joins us to ask Nik some lingering questions. Join us as we dig deeper into a consideration of Genesis 1 and evolution, the ramifications of fear and possibilities of wisdom, the pursuit of friendship with God in Job, and more!
If you'd like to hear more from Nik, you can find more information about some of his upcoming courses (including Biblical Foundations which will be...
2021-02-2554 min
Learning Matters: a Bridge to Practice#34 Learning Matters with Calvin SeerveldToday we have with us Calvin Seerveld, who is 90 years young and serves as Professor Emeritus in Philosophical Aesthetics at the Institute for Christian Studies – discussing art, education, labor movements and cosmoscopic dimensions of life and society.Calvin Seerveld (born 1930 in New York) received a BA from Calvin College in 1952, an MA in English literature and classics from the University of Michigan in 1953. He then went on to study under D. H. Th. Vollenhoven at the Free University (VU) in Amsterdam, where his doctoral dissertation dealt with Croce's aesthetics. It was supervised by Vollenhoven and Ca...
2020-09-1551 min
Critical FaithFaith in Art with Adrienne Dengerink ChaplinHere at ICS, we're embarking on a Summer Online Learning Initiative, which means we have a number of exciting new courses in the works for the next few months. So we wanted to give you a sneak peek at these courses with the people involved in making them happen.
This week, Adrienne Dengerink Chaplin joins us remotely for a conversation about her upcoming course Faith in Art: Spirituality and Lived Experience, which takes a close look at some of the intersections and tensions between faith and art today, especially within theological and philosophical aesthetics.
This 6-w...
2020-05-2531 min
Memento MoriMM74: Calvin SeerveldComment produire un art Memento Mori?
Dans cet épisode, Raph et Matt répondent aux questions suivantes:
*Ces derniers temps tu as écrit plusieurs articles sur Calvin Seerveld, pourquoi? Qui est-ce? Pourquoi tu t’intéresses à lui?
*Qu’est-ce qu’il apporte de nouveau à la réflexion sur l’art?
*Comment Seerveld définit-il l’art chrétien?
*Quelle est la mission de l’artiste chrétien selon lui?
*Comment Seerveld aide les artistes chrétiens à produire un art Memento Mori?
Ils ont parlé de :
*Article Seerveld: https://matthieugiralt.toutpoursagloire.com/art-redempteur/
*Article Lausanne: https://matthieugiralt.toutpoursagloire.com/artistes-peuvent-participer-a-mission/
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2020-01-1352 min
Acton LineThe Stewardship of Art, Part 2David Michael Phelps continues to lead the discussion between Professors Nathan Jacobs and Calvin Seerveld, who previously debated this topic in the Controversy section of our Journal of Markets & Morality. The first portion of that exchange is available at the link for part 1; the remainder of the Controversy can be read by clicking here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2010-04-3034 min
Acton LineThe Stewardship of Art, Part 1September in Grand Rapids means the return of ArtPrize, which bills itself as a "radically open" art competition, juried by the general public, and awarding the largest cash prize for an art competition in the world - $250,000 for first place. As the competition takes place in the hometown of the Acton Institute - in fact, many artists exhibited their work in our building last year, and will do so again this year - it's hard for us to miss it. And frankly, the questions that have been raised about the impact of such a non-professional, wide-open art contest with such...
2010-04-2941 min
saint benedict's tableLimping to glory: woundedness and graceDr. Calvin Seerveld, a prolific author and for years a specialist in Philosophical Aesthetics at the graduate Institute for Christian Studies in Toronto, challenged us with a stirring sermon at saint benedict's table, September 23, 2007.
2007-10-1224 min