John Calvin: A Reformer's Humility

The Protestant Reformer John Calvin (1509-1564) arrived in Geneva to lead the city’s church in 1536, but not, as we might imagine, to universal acceptance. Rather, there was significant resistance and a good amount of suspicion—city records called him ille gallus, "that Frenchman!" Eventually, the city became so fed up with Calvin that they fired both him and his fellow minister Guillaume Farell two years later in April 1538. Calvin relocated to Strasbourg and experienced the…