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The ultimate goal is to support the vision of our church through the worship experience at each individual service. Article | October 28, 2010 Creating Scripts from the Bible The Bible is a rich source of dramatic material for worship. From medieval tropes to contemporary sketches, this workshop surveyed the ways people have adapted scripture for performance and then formed groups to create original scripture plays. Audio | January 01, 2009 Worship Words Too Important to Neglect In Worship Words, Debra and Ron Rienstra show why and how to give more attention to your church's worship language. Feature Story | September 30, 2008 All Stars Involvement in the arts is an important way for kids of all ages to find their place in congregational life. Article | September 01, 2008 How to Plan Art Used in Church Worship Is your church commissioning liturgical art, creating art for cross cultural worship, or designing a new building? A feature story on how to involve more people from your congregation in planning and creating art for worship. Feature Story | February 29, 2008 War and Religion in America American historian James Bratt will explore the alternative destinations in style, ritual, and spirituality which the antebellum pilgrims sought and found on the road out of revivalism. Liturgical scholar Lester Ruth will respond and discuss analogies on the worship scene in the 21st century, especially noting the recurring popular impulse for alternate forms of worship. Audio | January 01, 2008 Whose Art? Which Church? Those who work at the intersection of the visual arts and congregational life know from experience how rich, complex, rewarding, and often messy this area can be. Audio | January 01, 2008 Talking About Worship: How to Start and Sustain Faithful Conversations This session will begin with a brief introduction to anthropological categories for talking about worship--liturgical time, space, environment, action, persons, music, language, etc. Participants will then engage in small group conversations about worship, using a process devised especially for facilitating conversations in congregations. Audio | January 01, 2008 Finding Themselves at the Table: Youth Practicing Eucharistic Living in the World This session explored an ecology of practices designed to deepen youths' participation in the Lord's Supper/Eucharist and to form them to interpret and act in the world eucharistically. Participants learned creative pedagogies for teaching youth about the Eucharist; how youth may be engaged in ministry at the Table; the importance of creating a broad ecology of liturgical and extra-liturgical Eucharistic practices through which youth may be formed; and the means to invite youths? personal and theological reflections on Eucharistic life. Audio | January 01, 2008 Spiritual Formation in Worship-Centered Congregations Differing circumstances call forth different liturgical, theological and formational questions and inspire different congregational conversations about what we do in worship and why we do it. The workshop began with a PowerPoint presentation on the history of Christian worship and its relationship to spiritual formation in congregational life, concluding with 'where we are now.' Practices for spiritual formation were described in relation to the congregation's worship life. Audio | January 01, 2008 Todd Farley on Embodied Preaching Todd Farley shows preachers how to use body communication to preach lively sermons. His embodied preaching ideas spring from a theology of restoring arts to ministry. A feature story exploring body communication in preaching. Feature Story | December 21, 2007 Liturgical Footwashing This service was designed to be a full service of Word and sacrament. It was also designed to allow worshipers to share in the intimacy Jesus experienced with his disciples through foot washing and during the meal in the hours prior to his arrest and crucifixion. Article | December 01, 2007 Digital Storytelling: Use multimedia in worship to enhance, not replace Biblical storytellers Tracy Radosevic and Tim Coombs and liturgical media arts expert Eileen D. Crowley explain how to tell God's stories in a digital age. They show how to add layers of images, sounds, and experiences to enhance worship. A feature story exploring the use of multimedia in worship. Feature Story | November 30, 2007 Getting Started with Liturgical Media Arts Whether you think of it as digital storytelling or liturgical media arts, your congregation probably has—or has thought about buying—multimedia equipment to use in worship. Feature Story | November 30, 2007 Worship as “Letting Go” While studying successful multiethnic Protestant churches in metro Los Angeles, Gerardo Marti experienced tremendous variations in worship. “The churches ranged from highly liturgical and mainline to wildly charismatic and Pentecostal. Feature Story | November 09, 2007 So Many Leaves One option for incorporating visual arts in a Thanksgiving service. Article | June 01, 2007 Base Worship Drama on the Lectionary In contrast to Jeff Barker, who often presents Old Testament passages as brief plays or mimes in place of or during the sermon text, John Steven Paul writes liturgical plays long enough to replace the sermon. Feature Story | April 05, 2007 Good Taste, Bad Taste, and Christian Taste Talk about worship aesthetics need not polarize people. Frank Burch Brown tells how to be more inclusive in arts and worship, yet also more discerning. A feature story exploring the idea of "taste" and aesthetics in Christian Worship. Feature Story | January 05, 2007 How Congregations Create Worship Visuals As Catherine Kapikian and other Christian artists have discovered, understanding the visual arts process is key to creating church imagery that builds community and deepens worship. A feature story exploring how congregations create worship visuals. Feature Story | March 17, 2006 Entering the Discomfort Zone: Our First Experience with Liturgical Dance We need someone to help teach us as a community, little bit by little bit, how to see dance, how to apprehend and appreciate and worship through it. Article | March 01, 2006 « Previous 5 6 7 8 Next »