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Audio | January 01, 2009 Prayer in the Life of a Third Millennium Monastery: What We're Learning This session featured stories, prayers, and insights from the first year of the Stockbridge Boiler Room, a simple Christian community that practices a daily rhythm of prayer, study, and celebration while caring actively for the poor and the lost. Audio | January 01, 2009 Building a Healthy and Interdependent Church Community The session presented several practical tools for building a church community that welcomes and embraces diversity in membership. Highlighting examples from churches including members with disabilities, this session offered ideas that allow people to see one another through God's eyes. Audio | January 01, 2009 Worship that Renews the Me and Transforms the Us Drawing from their diverse ministry experience, Jim and Rose Dekker --in Latin American ecumenical and spiritual direction-- and Jonathan Bradford --in a U.S. urban context-- explored the biblical concepts of knowing Christ the servant and serving Christ the Sovereign Lord. All of life must really be worship. Audio | January 01, 2009 Autism and Your Church If your church is larger than 150 people, statistics say that you have members who fall on the Autism Spectrum, including Asperger Syndrome. Audio | January 01, 2009 Worship, Suffering, and Justice This workshop explored the phenomenon of vibrant worship in communities in which there is much suffering, and engages participants in discussions around meaningful worship in such settings. It also explored how social justice can be part of worship while keeping the focus on God. Audio | January 01, 2009 Symposium 2009 - Leadership from Inside Out In this session, RCA general secretary Wes Granberg-Michaelson explored congregational leadership that is built on and extends from the inner spiritual lives of leaders, and explored how this relates to the dynamics of organizational change. The presentation drew from his book Leadership from Inside Out. Audio | January 01, 2009 Better Together: The Call for People with and without Disabilities to Worship, Serve, Learn, and Live Alongside Each Other This presentation addressed practical ways congregations can have a real impact on the lives of people with disabilities and their families living in their community and to make worship more accessible to everyone. Audio | January 01, 2009 Kaleidoscope: Shifting Perspectives of Faith Formation, Young People, and Intergenerational Worship This session explored how our understanding of young people and faith formation ought to enhance appreciation for worship that is intergenerational. Drawing on current resources, ideas for promoting change and exchanging ideas will outline a strategy for promoting intergenerational worship. Audio | January 01, 2009 Seeing Your Congregation with Expert Eyes: Culture, Race, Ethnicity In an update from their Symposium session in 2007, five Calvin College social scientists describe what they've learned through in-depth analysis of congregational and worship life. Audio | January 01, 2008 Whose Art? Which Church? Those who work at the intersection of the visual arts and congregational life know from experience how rich, complex, rewarding, and often messy this area can be. Audio | January 01, 2008 Spiritual Formation in Worship-Centered Congregations Differing circumstances call forth different liturgical, theological and formational questions and inspire different congregational conversations about what we do in worship and why we do it. The workshop began with a PowerPoint presentation on the history of Christian worship and its relationship to spiritual formation in congregational life, concluding with 'where we are now.' Practices for spiritual formation were described in relation to the congregation's worship life. Audio | January 01, 2008 The Cultural Context of American Worship In this presentation, religion journalist Richard Ostling analyzed trends in American faith and culture that worship leaders, pastors and ordinary worshipers need to be aware of. Audio | January 01, 2008 Talking About Worship: How to Start and Sustain Faithful Conversations This session will begin with a brief introduction to anthropological categories for talking about worship--liturgical time, space, environment, action, persons, music, language, etc. Participants will then engage in small group conversations about worship, using a process devised especially for facilitating conversations in congregations. Audio | January 01, 2008 Symposium 2008 - Blended Worship: Good for the Body The best argument for blended worship is that the body of Christ by definition is itself blended - therefore our services should reflect that reality. Audio | January 01, 2008 Planning Worship for the Global Village 21st-century worship planners are faced with unique exciting challenges as the church answers the Spirit's call to be a place where all nations and cultures are invited to join in praise. Audio | January 01, 2008 How Race Works in Multiracial Churches This workshop was given for those who want a deeper understanding of racial dynamics in today?s churches. Stories and examples from real congregations showed how race within churches is becoming complicated?and creatively reconstructed?through the post-1965 waves of immigration. Most important, we show how various good-intentioned priorities and programs work --and often don?t work-- in racially diverse churches. Audio | January 01, 2008 Praying with the Early Church: Crucial Lessons about Intercessory Prayer This session reviewed several prayer texts from the third to the fifth century, and then probed the very practical ways they might challenge us to pray more deeply in worship today. Audio | January 01, 2008 Worship in Difficult Times All congregations experience crises, transitions, and conflicts. Worship will be affected by these difficult times, and can be the place where healing begins and continues. Audio | January 01, 2007 Profile: Ron Nydam on How to Discuss Adoption Issues in Worship Not talking about awkward emotions, say after infertility, pregnancy out of wedlock, or adoption, may seem kind. But it's better for churches to include adoption and related issues in baptisms, worship, and church life. A feature story exploring the case for talking about adoption in worship. Feature Story | July 21, 2006 « Previous 2 3 4 5 Next »