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Local Psalm Festivals
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.
Singing for Our Lives: Echoes of the Psalms in Social Movements
Singing for Our Lives is a hymn festival to reimagine the ancient imprecatory psalms—those fierce, unflinching cries for justice—as a sacred invitation to transformation and community resilience.
Forming Communities of Witness in Post-Christian Contexts
An application-based summer seminar directed by Mark Glanville.
Brown Church: Five Hundred Years of Worship and Witness
An application-based summer seminar directed by Robert Chao Romero.
Living the Scriptural Story
An application-based summer seminar directed by Carmen Joy Imes.
Dwelling in the Psalms: Music for Organ, Choir, and Congregation
A Psalm Festival presented by the Chapel Choir of Princeton Seminary and director Martin Tel, 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
An application-based seminar on faithful ministry to, with, and by people with intellectual/developmental disabilities
Join us for a fun and interactive conversation about making church more welcoming and accessible for people with developmental disabilities and their families and friends. Together, we will explore creative ways churches can be places of belonging for every member of the body! Meet others and learn new ideas to take back to your congregation, parish or organization. Coffee, tea and desserts will be provided. This event is FREE but registration is requested.
American writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin wrote, “History is not the past. It is the present. We carry our history with us” ('I Am Not Your Negro'). Our current reality is shaped by the histories that have led us here, and we can’t seek to build a better future without taking seriously where we are now. So thinking about how people with intellectual disabilities should be treated in the church—what our ministries with, to, and from people with disabilities should be like—requires us to think carefully about the past and present in ways that are perhaps unpleasant. Many people with intellectual disabilities, their families, and their caregivers do not presently feel welcome in local congregations because of the history of cultural and social exclusion of those with such disabilities.
An application-based seminar on covenant epistemology in worship, life, and leadership
Many people feel that reality is just impersonal, indifferent, and meaningless, only grist for society’s pragmatic utility and scaling of power and mastery. It’s the stuff we consume, stuff with which I can do whatever I want. Even religious people sometimes devalue the world as irreligious, spiritually inferior, or a temptation to idolatry. But perhaps involvement with reality is just what we humans were meant for.
The Calvin Symposium on Worship is dedicated to worship and learning together with worshipers from communities around the globe and is sponsored by the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship and the Center for Excellence in Preaching.
