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Report on Festival of Faith and Music at Calvin College

Posted by cicw

Wednesday, April 8th, 2009

The Calvin College Student Activities Office hosted a tremendous event here at Calvin last weekend, the Festival of Faith and Music 2009. That website will eventually have some audio files from the conference, and I hope to post a brief Q&A with two of the conference organizers, my friends Rob and Kirstin, in the next week or two. For now, enjoy this thorough report from Byron Borger (who keeps a must-bookmark blog here):

The Calvin College Festival of Faith and Music was a tremendously interesting, fun and striking event; my 16-year old Marissa and I enjoyed the 11 hour trip to Grand Rapids, anticipating the lectures (Mako Fujimura, Andy Crouch, Cornel West), workshops, and concerts—from the large and loud Lupe Fiasco hip hop show, the provocative and joyous indi-rockers Hold Steady, to the quiet and acoustic stuff in intimate venues.

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