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Calvin's 500th--Skeel

By David Skeel and Bill Stuntz

 Yesterday was the 500^th anniversary of John Calvin's birth. The anniversary didn't make any newspaper that I saw, but there have been major celebrations in the church world, including a series of talks and sermons in Geneva that featured many evangelical luminaries. 

I'm no Calvin scholar myself. My greatest claim to Calvin devotion is also my most embarrassing: I brought Calvin's Institutes of Religion on my honeymoon almost twenty-one years ago, and actually read some of it. 

Full post as published by Less than the Least on July 11, 2009 (boomark / email).