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Mary L. Cohen on Prison Choirs That Churches Can Start

Churches can use this community/prison choir model to embody and invite people into restorative justice. It can help us develop our awareness of our common humanity and help people see God’s love within each of us.

Conversation Conversation | August 12, 2019

Mary L. Cohen on Community Choirs in Prisons

Oakdale Community Choir in Coralville, Iowa, meets in the prison where half its members live. Church choirs and congregations can learn from the principles and practices that make this choir so life-giving. It focuses as much on relationships and potential as on music.

Conversation Conversation | August 12, 2019

Lessons on Developing Young Leaders: Find Room to Speak about Challenges, Problems, and Sin

Key 3 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 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 Conversation | July 25, 2019

Lessons on Developing Young Leaders: Work Towards Shifting Perspectives and Implementing Change-sustaining Practices

Key 1 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Conversation | May 24, 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 Conversation | May 14, 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 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 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 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 Conversation | February 15, 2019