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Conversation | July 25, 2019 Lessons on Developing Young Leaders: Recognize That Other Areas of Ministry Benefit from the Perspective Shift Key 4 of four keys on how to develop young people as leaders in the church from six seasoned Latin@ leaders whose congregations and parachurch groups are leadership incubators for the young people in their communities. Conversation | July 25, 2019 Lessons on Developing Young Leaders: Four Keys Towards Innovation A discussion with six Latin@ leaders on some practical ideas for and challenges faced in developing young leaders in the church. Conversation | July 25, 2019 Lessons on Developing Young Leaders: Bring Others Alongside Key 2 of four keys on how to develop young people as leaders in the church from six seasoned Latin@ leaders whose congregations and parachurch groups are leadership incubators for the young people in their communities. Conversation | July 25, 2019 Joel Carpenter on Matter and Spirit Exhibition When U.S. artists and Chinese artists traveled together in China, they learned the unique challenges of expressing Christian faith through the visual arts in each other’s contexts. Conversation | July 01, 2019 Glenn Packiam on Songs that Bring Hope in Worship What do contemporary Christians sing about when they sing about hope? Do they experience hope when they gather to sing in worship? If so, what sort of hope is it? Conversation | July 01, 2019 Robert Feduccia on the CCLI Song Select Liturgy Section Churches around the world seek permission to use contemporary worship music from Christian Copyright Licensing, Inc., or CCLI. Late in 2018, CCLI Song Select quietly introduced a liturgical section to help churches select contemporary music that fits the classic ordo, the four-fold pattern of worship. Robert Feduccia explains why. Conversation | July 01, 2019 Derek Elmi-Buursma on Communion and Context Whether you call it Communion, Eucharist, the Lord’s Supper, or something else, you may wonder how to connect this sacrament with real life. Learn how one small urban congregation creates eucharistic liturgies for living in a broken world. Conversation | June 04, 2019 Andrea C. Hunter on Contemporary Songwriters and Scholars You might think of scholars as looking back and contemporary Christian songwriters as looking forward. Songwriter Andrea C. Hunter says that scholars can help remind musicians and congregations of what to aim for in worship. Scholars also mine treasures from Christian traditions in many eras and places. Conversation | May 29, 2019 Andrea C. Hunter on Contemporary Worship Music’s Thou-to-I Shift Her wide and deep experience with contemporary worship music gives Andrea C. Hunter keen insight on how it can form—or malform—Christians and congregations. Conversation | May 29, 2019 Angie Hong on Imagining Worship as an Egalitarian Zone Christian worship services can support or contradict the biblical vision of the church as one body with many parts. Here’s how corporate worship can help worshipers practice equity across lines of gender, race, ability, socioeconomics, and sexuality. Conversation | May 24, 2019 Angie Hong on Biblical Reconciliation through the Worship Arts God calls all Christians and congregations to the ministry of reconciliation. Sometimes this happens best through the worship arts. Conversation | May 24, 2019 Jean Ngoya Kidula on African Church Musics Ethnomusicologist Jean Ngoya Kidula invites churches around the world to learn more about what she calls African church “musics” so they can glimpse how vast God is. Conversation | May 14, 2019 Jean Ngoya Kidula on Ethnomusicology and Ethnodoxology Scholar Jean Ngoya Kidula explains how ethnomusicology and ethnodoxology can widen churches’ musical palates. Accepting this opportunity will expand how congregations understand and praise God. Conversation | May 14, 2019 Frank Thomas on the Power of African-American Preaching “How is it that you can take a group of people who are in despair and when you get finished preaching the gospel, they have hope?” This question sent Frank Thomas down a path that led him nearly forty years later to create the first PhD program in African-American preaching. Conversation | April 10, 2019 W. David O. Taylor on Scholars and Songwriters Scholars and songwriters don’t normally talk together. But wonderful music for Christian worship can result when they share insights. Conversation | March 01, 2019 Constance Cherry on Small Church Worship and Identity Small churches sometimes feel weak or irrelevant. Intentional worship practices can help them discover their value before God and to the community. Conversation | February 15, 2019 Constance Cherry on Competing Metaphors for Worship Most churches measure worship services against a certain ideal. They may think of worship like a concert, entertainment, dialogue, or something else. Even if they have not consciously chosen an operating metaphor for worship, their pattern greatly influences how individuals and congregations live out their faith. Conversation | February 15, 2019 Birgitta Johnson on Praise and Worship Music Praise and worship music can lift worshipers’ hearts to God and unite people across culture, religious tradition, and background. But the genre is not meant to be the only kind of music in a congregation’s repertoire. Conversation | January 07, 2019 Birgitta Johnson on New African American Ecumenical Hymnal One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism is a new Protestant hymnal compiled by a core committee of worship arts ministers and scholars. It goes deep and wide into the multiple streams of black Christian music and worship. Conversation | January 07, 2019 « Previous 6 7 8 9 10 ... Next »