
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.
Learn moreWhy Confronting What Divides Us Is a Gospel Issue
This workshop will examine why corporate gathering and worship as the church require us to address potentially polarizing issues.
Culturally Responsive, Trauma-Informed Worship
In today’s diverse and interconnected world, understanding and addressing trauma through a culturally responsive lens is essential for creating inclusive and healing worship experiences.
Cultivating the Creative Life
What is creativity, and why do we still need to talk about it? Join Sandra McCracken in a conversation on faith, imagination, and creativity.
Salmo 8: Ser como niños y niñas, admirar la creación y adorar a Dios
Contemplar la creación de Dios, su gloria y majestad, nos lleva a la alabanza. Descubrir el lugar único y honroso de hombres y mujeres en la creación, como portadores de la imagen de Dios, nos conduce a darle gloria y a cumplir gozosos nuestra tarea como mayordomos de nuestro prójimo y de la creación.
Sunggu A. Yang on the Arts and Preaching
Intra-dynamic preaching is a new mode of preaching that promises to immerse people in God’s living word. It uses the form and language of specific art types to design sermons that resonate in people’s heads, hearts, imaginations, and bodies. Sunggu A. Yang edited a practical handbook to help preachers encounter God in scripture and aesthetically recreate that experience for listeners.
Psalms in Worship
The Psalms are a font of inspiration, encouragement, and instruction in the life of both public and private prayer.
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.
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.
Preaching and Soul Care (For Preachers and Their Hearers)
In a world generically “spiritual,” how does a preacher tend to the highest calling of the pastoral life: the tending of souls?
Singing Bilingual Psalms from Passion Week through Ascension Day
A conversation with Tony Alonso.
How Intra-Dynamic Preaching Helps Worshipers Encounter God
You’re probably familiar with expository and narrative sermons. Homiletics professor and author Sunggu A. Yang offers another preaching method: intra-dynamic preaching. He explains how “infusing the sacred art of preaching with the vibrant energy of the arts” can lead worshipers to unexpected moments in which God encounters and changes them.
Bibliography - Visual Arts and Worship
Annotated bibliography related to visual arts, theology and worship.