The Calvin Center for Faith & Writing (CCFW) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit fostering scholarship and and community around the literary arts. Our flagship initiative is the Festival of Faith & Writing (#FFWgr), a biennial celebration of literature and belief in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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2017 Festival of Faith and Music: Artists Respond to the 2016 Election (Panel)
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Welcome to recordings from the 2017 Festival of Faith & Music. The biennial festival brings together musicians, critics, journalists, artists, and listeners for three days of concerts, lectures, and conversations that explore the intersection of music and spirituality. What follows is a panel on the role of artists in politically fraught times. Par…
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2017 Festival of Faith and Music: Katelyn Beaty
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Welcome to recordings from the 2017 Festival of Faith & Music. The biennial festival brings together musicians, critics, journalists, artists, and listeners for three days of concerts, lectures, and conversations that explore the intersection of music and spirituality.What follows is a lecture given by Katelyn Beaty, an editor at large at Christian…
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2017 Festival of Faith and Music: Jessica Hopper & Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib
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Welcome to recordings from the 2017 Festival of Faith & Music. The biennial festival brings together musicians, critics, journalists, artists, and listeners for three days of concerts, lectures, and conversations that explore the intersection of music and spirituality. What follows is a conversation between Jessica Hopper and Hanif Willis-Abdurraqi…
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2017 Festival of Faith and Music: Julien Baker
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Welcome to recordings from the 2017 Festival of Faith & Music. The biennial festival brings together musicians, critics, journalists, artists, and listeners for three days of concerts, lectures, and conversations that explore the intersection of music and spirituality. What follows is a conversation with Julien Baker an independent artist who wrote…
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2017 Festival of Faith and Music: Ann Powers
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Welcome to recordings from the 2017 Festival of Faith & Music. The biennial festival brings together musicians, critics, journalists, artists, and listeners for three days of concerts, lectures, and conversations that explore the intersection of music and spirituality. What follows is an interview with Ann Powers, a critic for NPR Music and the aut…
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2016 Fall Writers Series: Jim Wallis
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Listen to the extended version with community response and Q&A here: Jim Wallis speaks about his latest book AMERICA'S ORIGINAL SIN: RACISM, WHITE PRIVILEGE, AND THE BRIDGE TO A NEW AMERICA at Calvin College on Monday, September 12. JIM WALLIS is a bestselling author, public theologian, preacher, and activist. He is the founder and leader of Sojour…
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2016 Fall Writers Series: Austin Channing Brown
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A popular blogger and widely traveled speaker on racial justice and reconciliation, Austin Channing Brown will be doing a reading based on her upcoming book about the burdens her black body carries by virtue of living and working in spaces characterized by whiteness. Her reading will be followed by a conversation about the authors—Ta-Nehisi Coates,…
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2016 Fall Writers Series: W. Todd Kaneko
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In THE DEAD WRESTLER ELEGIES, up-and-coming poet W. Todd Kaneko mines the history of professional wrestling to examine complex relationships between fathers and sons and makes the wrestling ring an allegory of childhood, desire, and loss. All this as an Asian American and in spite of the racist melodramas that frequently play out in the personas of…
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2016 Fall Writers Series: Peter Ho Davies
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Sly, funny, intelligent, and artfully structured, THE FORTUNES by Peter Ho Davies recasts American history through the lives of four Chinese Americans and reimagines the multigenerational novel through the fractures of immigrant family experience. Spinning fiction around fact, Davies uses stories—three inspired by real historical characters—to exam…
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(EXTENDED) 2016 Fall Writers Series: Jim Wallis with Community Response and Q&A
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Jim Wallis speaks about his latest book AMERICA'S ORIGINAL SIN: RACISM, WHITE PRIVILEGE, AND THE BRIDGE TO A NEW AMERICA at Calvin College on Monday, September 12. He is followed by responses from local leaders providing perspectives on race in Grand Rapids and on campus, and then the panel will respond to questions from the audience. JIM WALLIS is…
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