The Next Worship: Coming to the Table in a Multicultural World
The Table is a dominant image for Christ followers gathering together to worship him. It communicates friendship, commitment, and intimacy. The church is in need of leaders who will work towards seeing every tribe and tongue present, reconciled, and celebrating diversity at the Table of corporate worship.
Hip Hop and Worship: Dealing with the Dilemma
Why is the church still wrestling with whether to engage or not engage Hip Hop Culture, particularly Hip Hop created and performed by Christian artists? Is there such a thing as Christian Hip Hop?
Worship in Calvin’s Geneva: Challenges and Opportunities Then and Now
Based on her forthcoming edited volume of primary sources on worship in Calvin’s Geneva, Karin Maag outlines what happened in Geneva as the city moved from Catholicism to Protestantism.
The Most Important Word in Preaching
Since the inception of the New Homiletic in the 1970s, preachers have been experimenting with inductive and narrative forms of preaching, thanks to the likes of Fred Craddock and Eugene Lowry. The idea is for sermons to engage people, create an experience of the biblical text.
Worship, Beauty, Justice, and Shalom
In a recent essay on "Beauty & Justice," Nicholas Wolterstorff writes "what unites love of understanding, worship, beauty, and justice is that these are all dimensions of shalom.
Sticky Liturgies: Worship, Youth Ministry, and the Faith of America’s Teenagers
Research has shown that young people are abandoning the faith and leaving the church by the time they graduate from college. Might worship be part of the problem?
La bienvenida al simposio sobre la adoración
En nombre de todo el personal del Instituto, quiero extenderles una cordial invitación a participar en nuestro próximo Simposio de Adoración.
Raymond Wise's Advice for Aspiring Church Musicians
Raymond Wise encourages young, aspiring church musicians to remember the four Ds: Discover, Develop, Display, and Draw.
Raymond Wise on the Needs and Opportunities in Church Music Today
A video conversation featuring Raymond Wise on the needs and opportunities in church music today
Symposium 2012 - Plenary Address: Performing a Counter World: the Alternative Reality Offered by the Psalms for the Worlds We Inhabit
Performing a Counter World: the Alternative Reality Offered by the Psalms for the Worlds We Inhabit is a plenary address presented by Walter Brueggemann at the 2012 Calvin Symposium on Worship.
Worship and Justice
Eric Mathis and Claudio Carvalhaes, Associate Professor of Worship and Liturgy at Lutheran Theological Seminary, discuss the relationship between worship and justice.
The Rise of Evangelicos and the Changing Shape of Religion in America
An edited video interview with Elizabeth Dias of TIME Magazine