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Exploring Worship and Grief
An Application-Based Summer Seminar Directed by John Swinton and Isaac Wardell
Service of Lament
Join us on Thursday, June 12th in the chapel at Calvin Theological Seminary for a special evening service of prayer and worship on the theme of lament and grief. This service will be led by Isaac Wardell, director of The Porter’s Gate Worship Project, and John Swinton, pastoral theologian from Aberdeen, Scotland. They will be joined by other musicians and church leaders from around the country who are gathered at The Calvin Institute of Christian Worship to study the biblical theme of grief and lament.
2025 Black Religious Autobiography Seminar
The office of Black Church Studies at Duke Divinity School is sponsoring a week-long seminar exploring the autobiographical writings of Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Howard Thurman, Ida B. Wells, and other Black autobiographers and memoirists who used their life stories as weapons in the quest for freedom and humanization.
Faith Formation in the Digital Age
An Application-Based Summer Seminar Directed by Felicia Wu Song
Loneliness: A Casualty of AI as Human Substitute
This public lecture with Felicia Wu Song highlights the impacts of AI on human interactions and how faith communities should respond.
Ministry in a Secular Age
An Application-Based Summer Seminar Directed by Andrew Root
The Waiting Church: How to Face the Crisis
It feels like the church is in an unquestioned crisis. But what is the shape of this crisis? And have we misunderstood it?
A week-long seminar led by Jeremy Begbie.
An evening with Jeremy Begbie
Why “do this in remembrance” and not just “think on these things”? The biblical world of rituals is thick, including the habits of daily life, treaties with gods and kings, and the calendar of Israel’s and Christianity’s worship. We are ritualed creatures, and the Scriptures uniquely claim that rituals yield skill, discernment, and the understanding necessary to serve in the kingdom of God.
A public conversation between Dru Johnson and Cory Willson
Insights for Pastoral and Worship Ministries.
A highlighting of the psychological and spiritual profiles of key religious anti-racist figures from the 19th and 20th Century, using practical theology and psychohistory.
