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Todd Billings on Embracing Our Mortality Unless we are very ill or old, many of us avoid thinking about our deaths. J. Todd Billings’s new book, The End of the Christian Life, explains that remembering our mortality and learning to die well will give us a more profound view of true Christian resurrection hope. Conversation | January 19, 2021 Victoria White on Inclusion in Circles of Congregations All Belong will keep helping congregations become welcoming communities for people of all abilities, especially through its innovative Circle of Congregations for Teaching and Learning program. Conversation | January 19, 2021 Mimi L. Larson on Engaging Children in Worship As full image-bearers of God, children can and do have authentic experiences of worship. God interacts with and wants to be in relationship with them. Mimi L. Larson is researching how faith development styles and church theology influence children’s faith formation. Conversation | December 03, 2020 Matthew Kaemingk and Cory B. Willson on Work and Worship Many of us feel guilty for thinking about work during gathered worship. We don’t see a connection between what we do in worship and what we do at work. But a new book on work and worship describes biblical worship practices that help workers reclaim their place in the priesthood of all believers. Conversation | December 03, 2020 Online Discipleship and Mindfulness The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted opportunities to learn together in the same physical space. But Calvin University and Calvin Theological Seminary offer short online courses for lifelong learners to engage topics such as embodied discipleship and mindfulness in a world gone virtual. Conversation | November 09, 2020 Gathering Safely for In-Person Worship during COVID-19 A conversation with leaders from the project Ecumenical Protocols for In-Person Worship and from the Humanitarian and Disaster Institute Conversation | Video | October 19, 2020 Worship in a Digital World: Interview with Wendell Kimbrough In this edited interview, songwriter Wendell Kimbrough talks about what he’s learned during the COVID-19 pandemic about worship in the digital world. He was interviewed by Rebecca Snippe, a program manager for the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship. Conversation | October 16, 2020 Kimberly Hope Belcher on Christian Unity and Communion Ephesians 4 calls Christians to “one Lord, one faith, one baptism” unity. Yet many Christian traditions don’t allow full communion with other denominations. Kimberly Hope Belcher’s new book Eucharist and Receptive Ecumenism: From Thanksgiving to Communion, offers steps toward greater unity. Conversation | October 16, 2020 Jeff Barker on Combining Music and Public Scripture Reading The COVID-19 pandemic pushed many churches to do online worship services, inspiring some liturgists to more creatively present Bible readings. Jeff Barker explains how to combine music with the lections or scripture passages. Conversation | September 09, 2020 Teacher-Scholar Panel: Community and Social Justice Themes 2019 Teacher-Scholar Vital Worship Grant recipients talk about their projects and the implications for those projects for gathered worship. Conversation | July 08, 2020 Teacher-Scholar Panel: Scripture and Formation Themes 2019 Teacher-Scholar Vital Worship Grant recipients talk about their projects and the implications for those projects for gathered worship. Conversation | July 08, 2020 Teacher-Scholar Panel: Historical and Contemporary Cultural Themes 2019 Teacher-Scholar Vital Worship Grant recipients talk about their projects and the implications for those projects for gathered worship. Conversation | July 08, 2020 Teacher-Scholar Panel: Liturgical Resources and Practices 2019 Teacher-Scholar Vital Worship Grant recipients talk about their projects and the implications for those projects for gathered worship. Conversation | July 08, 2020 Elizabeth Bajema: All Belong in God’s Family Churches sometimes see themselves as inclusive simply because they have attendees from group homes. But true inclusion means getting to know people as individuals with gifts to offer in God’s family. Conversation | July 06, 2020 Shaping Worship During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Offering Hope at Grace and Peace Christian Reformed Church, Chicago, Illinois Chantel Varnado, worship arts director at Grace and Peace CRC, shares her insights for leading worship in the time of COVID-19, drawing wisdom and her own experience from her multicultural worshiping context. Conversation | May 18, 2020 Lora Copley and Elizabeth Vander Haagen on Family Prayer and Worship Families spending more time together during COVID-19 stay-at-home orders have the opportunity to nurture—or begin—daily practices of family worship and prayer. Conversation | May 01, 2020 Lora Copley on Preparing Families for Sunday Worship If you have been wanting to start or strengthen your family’s faith formation, perhaps the new coronavirus pandemic offers a novel opportunity. Conversation | May 01, 2020 Shaping Worship During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Jesus’ Presence among First Nations Anglicans in Canada In this conversation, Mark L. MacDonald shares his insights challenges for worshiping in time of COVID-19 in his context of indigenous congregations in the Anglican Church of Canada. Conversation | May 01, 2020 Stacey Edwards-Dunn on African American Infertility and the Church’s Response People experiencing infertility often suffer in silence. African Americans experience more infertility than other racial groups. But churches can offer healing when they open the door for conversations and include these sorrows in worship. Conversation | April 24, 2020 Dennis R. Edwards on 1 Peter and Good Shepherd Sunday For lectionary Year A, Good Shepherd Sunday, the fourth Sunday of Easter, includes a reading from 1 Peter. New Testament scholar Dennis R. Edwards explains why Peter’s first letter is especially relevant as people deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. 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