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Audio & Video resources include practical and scholarly sessions intended for congregational leaders, pastors, students, teachers, scholars, musicians, artists, and all interested in worship. These resources serve as tools for preparing, planning for, and leading worship as well as for studying the history, theology, and practice of worship worldwide.

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Almeda M. Wright on the Beautiful and Complex Lives of Young People

In this episode, Almeda M. Wright shares about her research that explores the spiritual lives of African American youth and points to a complex picture of both the fragmentation and integration in their spiritual lives as they learn to balance experiences of suffering while persisting along pathways to life more abundantly in Christ.

Podcast Podcast | Audio Audio | December 20, 2021

Andrew Root on What is Youth Ministry For?

In this episode, Andy Root explores how narrative and joy spark the imagination and provide a framework to minister in Christ and for young people in deeply formative ways.

Podcast Podcast | Audio Audio | December 20, 2021

Richelle B. White on Unashamedly Black and Unapologetically Christian: Repertory with Roots for Youth

In this episode, Richelle B. White shares her passion for drawing from the wisdom of the Bible along with Black history, Black culture, and Black music as rich, relevant, and necessary sources in nurturing in faith the lives of Black youth.

Podcast Podcast | Audio Audio | December 20, 2021

Montague Williams on Church in Color

In this episode, Montague Williams shares about the opportunities churches have to support and nurture young people of color as they navigate the joys and complexities of their lives in the 21st century.

Podcast Podcast | Audio Audio | December 20, 2021

Amanda Drury on Testimony as Spiritual Formation in the Lives of Youth

In this episode, Amanda Drury talks about the integral role testimony plays in the worshiping community, especially as young people learn how to narrate their faith in a variety of spaces and ways and join the intergenerational faith community in long-term Christian living.

Podcast Podcast | Audio Audio | December 20, 2021

Christ-Centered Pathways of Reconciliation in Christian Life & Worship

What can ministry and worship look like among people who are bitterly opposed to each other? Around the world, congregations gather for worship every week, defining themselves by how they’re different from other nearby Christian worshiping communities. A conversation with Munther Isaac, Ann Kapteyn, Najla Kassab, Kiran Young Wimberly, moderated by John D. Witvliet

Video Video | December 02, 2021

Multicultural Worship Reflecting All of God's People

In this conversation, pastoral musician Eric Lige shares with Nate Glasper about his passion and calling to draw from the riches of our diverse communities--languages, cultural practices, and more--to honor and worship God together.

Video Video | December 02, 2021

Worshiping with the Reformers

In this conversation, social historian Karin Maag and pastor Noel Snyder talk about Karin's new book, Worshiping with the Reformers, which invites readers to understand worship practices during the sixteenth-century Reformation, including going to church, praying, preaching, baptism, Lord's Supper, worship around the death bed, and more. It narrates the heart-centered reality of how people worshiped in and among confessional groups, untangles some persistent misperceptions, and invites all of us to be more patient with each other in our communal worship practices today.

Video Video | December 02, 2021

Christian Martyrdom and the Witness of Ordinary Christian Life

In this conversation, theology professors Matt Lundberg and Mary Vanden Berg talk about Matt's new book Christian Martyrdom and Christian Violence and what it means for Christians to be faithful in a world that both experiences and inflicts violence, and how the Spirit is working in and through the church to shape and equip us to follow the way of Jesus in the life of faith.

Video Video | December 02, 2021

And We Shall Learn Through the Dance

A conversation on the integral role of dance and movement in worship with Kathleen Turner and Paul Ryan

Video Video | December 02, 2021