
Dwelling in the Psalms
You are invited to join the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship (CICW) in a year of dwelling in the Psalms—the prayerbook and songbook of the Bible. Together, the 150 psalms guide Christian worshipers through the full range of human emotions and experiences, making space for communities to practice praise and lament, to ask questions and find words of comfort, and so much more. Our work at CICW over the years has connected us to many people engaging in thoughtful and imaginative work around the psalms. We are eager to build on those connections and encourage more new and ancient ways to dwell in the psalms.
Learn morePsalm Festivals
As part of the Dwelling in the Psalms year, the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship has provided resources to support Psalm festivals around Canada and the United States. These events are open to the public and many will be livestreamed.
Salmo 15: La ética social como requisito de la adoración
El Salmo 15 es un llamado a adorar a Dios con integridad y justicia en nuestras relaciones con el prójimo. En la medida en que, diariamente, vivimos nuestras relaciones sociales con acciones de justicia y respeto hacia nuestros semejantes, nuestro culto es aceptable al Señor.
Kai Ton Chau on Love of Learning and Worship Leader Well-Being
Scholar Kai Ton Chau makes the case that churches should support worship leaders by giving them opportunities to learn and grow in their jobs.
Vertical Habits: Worship and Our Faith Vocabulary
Vertical Habits is a name given to the process of connecting words used in our relationship with people with words used to express these emotions to God. The biblical Psalms are the foundational mentor and guide in this vocabulary and grammar for worship.
Sunday Formation for the Monday Priesthood
The last few minutes of corporate worship are critical because they frame the entire purpose of worship and its connection to our lives in the world.
Psalm Festival Program
As part of its year of Dwelling in the Psalms, the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship is providing support to worshiping communities throughout the United States and Canada to host a public psalm festival worship event that features congregational singing based on Psalms. We encourage using the resource Psalms for All Seasons: A Complete Psalter for Worship (Brazos and Faith Alive Christian Resources, 2012) and other psalm resources of your choosing.
Mark Franzen on Experiencing God through Sacred Music
A sacred music grant project helped Catholic parishioners from many ethnicities—Anglo, Eritrean, Filipino, Latino, Nigerian, Vietnamese, and more—experience the awe and mystery of faith and God.
Contextual Stories from Hispanic Worshiping Communities
Pastors of three Hispanic churches will share what they learned from experiences implementing congregational projects related to the development of new understandings and practices of worship and preaching.
Public Worship, Wealth, and Poverty in Early Christianity
Explore how Christians in the earliest centuries of Christianity engaged topics related to wealth and poverty in their preaching, public prayers, offerings, celebrations of baptism and the Lord’s Supper, and the shaping of buildings and spaces for Christian worship.
Salmo 19: Escuchar la Palabra en la creación y en la Biblia
El salmo celebra la realidad de que la creación, día a día, proclama la gloria de Dios, su poder y su generosidad. La Palabra es también el medio por el cual Dios nos instruye para que vivamos plenamente la vida. Dios, por medio de su Espíritu, transforma nuestra vida para que vivamos una vida plena y agradable a Él.
A Snapshot of Illness, Pain, and Healing in Early Christianity
How did early Christians understand their illness and pain in their Greco-Roman context?
CICW Global Psalm Gallery
A crowd-sourced collection of Psalm interpretations from worshiping communities across the spectrum of Christian traditions that premiered at the 2021 Calvin Symposium on Worship.