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Regional Psalm Festivals
From Generation to Generation: A Service of Lessons and Carols
Join Calvin University choirs for their fiftieth annual lessons and carols service, which coincides with Calvin University's 150th anniversary celebrations spanning the 2025–26 academic year.
Psalms 150: A Conference Experience
This conference offers opportunities to learn from guest speakers, musicians, and artists and participate in a psalm festival worship service and other times of prayer and reflection.
Montgomery—Arrabon Experiential Learning Trip 2026
The Calvin Institute of Christian Worship is excited to partner with Arrabon, a spiritual formation ministry that equips Christ-followers to actively and creatively pursue reconciliation and racial healing in their communities, to offer a curated experiential learning trip to Montgomery, Alabama.
Psalmody in Color: Celebrating the Sacred Music of Black Voices
As part of The Abyssinian Baptist Church’s annual Black Music Month Celebration, Psalmody in Color is a weekend-long festival dedicated to exploring and uplifting the psalm settings of Black composers, past and present. Through concerts, lectures, and workshops, the festival highlights the rich sacred music traditions that have shaped worship and cultural life across generations.
Dwelling in the Psalms: Music for Organ, Choir, and Congregation
A Psalm Festival presented by the Chapel Choir of Princeton Seminary, Martin Tel, Director, with performers and choral conductors Brandon Boyd, Mina Choi, Ahreum Han-Congdon, Evelyn Simpson-Curenton, and Eric Wall
Wisdom in the Age of AI
Discerning faithful and responsible use of AI in education, church, business, health care, and the arts
Singer-songwriter Wendell Kimbrough will share fresh musical settings of psalms for congregational singing. These songs give voice to the full range of human emotion—from lament and judgment to hope and praise. Come ready to sing, reflect, and experience the depth of the psalms. Wendell will lead this session as part of the weekly worship service time for Calvin University students and community.
This chapel service at Calvin University will be led by the Calvin University Campus Choir under the direction of Dr. Mark Stover and the Woodlawn Choir directed by Chan Gyu Jang. Both choirs call Calvin’s campus their home, making this a unique opportunity to witness the rich musical and spiritual life rooted in this community. Come and experience the power of communal singing, scripture, and prayer.
Join Common Hymnal, a vibrant online community of creatives on the margins of the Christian faith, for a night of worship, in a movement of honest expression and collective transformation.
Developed in partnership with the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship and the Calvin University School of Graduate and Continuing Studies, this online course equips worship planners and leaders of all types of ministries with practical tools for relating well to people from a variety of cultures. Understanding and respecting cultural differences is key to a healthy ministry.
Why and how did psalm singing become such a hallmark of Reformed worship? Join Dr. Karin Maag for a fascinating journey through time, from Reformation Geneva to Scotland and from the Netherlands to New England, exploring the roots and impact of metrical psalm singing. Along the way, we will hear the voices of early modern Christians as they learned how to sing the psalms, both in unison and in harmony. Come ready to sing!
