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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. 

August 11, 2025 | 1 min video
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. 

August 5, 2025 | 1 min video

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.

August 4, 2025 | 13 min read
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. 

July 31, 2025 | 7 min read

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.

July 30, 2025 | 2 min read
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.

July 30, 2025 | 2 min read
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?

July 29, 2025 | 1 min video

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.

July 29, 2025 | 10 min read