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Science and Faith in Harmony: Positive ways to include science in worship

Deborah Haarsma and Scott Hoezee explain how worship that honors God as Creator can defuse culture wars between science and faith.

Feature Story Feature Story | June 07, 2024

Ron Man

Ron Man on Biblical Foundations of Worship

For more than 25 years, Ron Man has been teaching on the biblical foundations of worship. He gathers up that learning in his book “Let Us Draw Near”, a testimony to the power of scripture to guide pastors and worshipers in our calling to be worshipers of God.

Audio Audio | Podcast Podcast | December 18, 2023

Kenny Wallace

Kenneth L. Wallace Jr. on Multiethnic Worship

Multiethnic worship includes but is much more than singing songs from diverse cultures. An ethnodoxologist who identifies as African American Choctaw Pawnee says you need to know your own culture’s stories and gifts to share with and receive from Christians in other cultures.

Conversation Conversation | October 25, 2022

Eric Lige, Nate Glasper

Multicultural Worship Reflecting All of God's People

In this conversation, pastoral musician Eric Lige shares with Nate Glasper about his passion and calling to draw from the riches of our diverse communities--languages, cultural practices, and more--to honor and worship God together.

Video Video | December 02, 2021

Kenny Wallace and Satrina Reid

Christian Worship and Cultural Identities

A conversation with Kenny Wallace and Satrina Reid

Conversation Conversation | November 18, 2021

Kai Ton Chau

Kai Ton Chau on Worship and Culture Worldwide

Kai Ton Chau teaches Calvin University students to articulate different cultural values so they can discuss and appreciate diverse forms of Christian worship. You can do something similar in your school, church, or worship context to build cultural intelligence among Christians.

Conversation Conversation | September 27, 2021

Jemar Tisby

What Is the Color of Compromise?

This presentation is offered through The January Series of Calvin University and features Jemar Tisby, author and president of The Witness: A Black Christian collective, where he writes about race, religion, and culture.

Video Video | October 28, 2020

Mark Charles, Michelle Higgins, Nikki Lerner, Dominique DuBois Gilliard, Isaac Wardell, David M. Bailey

Worship, Cultural Difference, and a Kingdom Vision for Life Together

2020 Calvin Symposium on Worship | Seminar

Video Video | June 02, 2020

Mark L. MacDonald

Mark L. MacDonald on Gospel-Based Discipleship and Indigenous Christians

Archbishop Mark L. MacDonald speaks and writes about gospel inculturation in Indigenous ministries, especially among First Nations Anglicans in Canada. Churches everywhere can learn from the Indigenous Gospel-Based Discipleship model for worship, governance, and community life.

Conversation Conversation | March 24, 2020

Janice McLean-Farrell

Janice McLean-Farrell on a Pastoral Approach to Research

Congregations often want to get information from members and neighbors. They can learn how to do so pastorally by considering how scholars do academic research using human subjects. Scholars follow ethical standards to gain data while doing no harm.

Conversation Conversation | January 08, 2020

Jemar Tisby

What Is the Color of Compromise?

This presentation is offered through The January Series of Calvin University and features Jemar Tisby, author and president of The Witness: A Black Christian collective, where he writes about race, religion, and culture.

Video Video | October 28, 2019

Community in worship at 2019 Vital Worship Grants colloquium

How to Adapt Race, Class, and the Kingdom of God to Your Setting

Arrabon’s Race, Class, and the Kingdom of God curriculum can be adapted to church and school contexts with varying memberships and time constraints.

Article Article | August 19, 2019

Race, Class, and the Kingdom of God

Curriculum Prepares People to Talk about Racial Reconciliation

Arrabon’s Race, Class, and the Kingdom of God curriculum gives small groups the shared knowledge, language, and practices to effectively address deep cultural tensions and divisions.

Feature Story Feature Story | August 19, 2019

William Dyrness

Cultivating the Relationship between Theology and the Arts: Confrontation, Dialogue, or Integration?

2019 Cultivating Vital Worship | Session

Video Video | July 31, 2019

Robert Chao Romero, Monique M. Ingalls, Leopoldo A. Sánchez, and Terry LeBlanc

Worship and Culture

2019 Calvin Symposium on Worship | Seminar

Audio Audio | May 03, 2019

Gary Burge

The Bible in Worship: Deep Engagement with Scripture in a Culture of Low Biblical Literacy

2019 Calvin Symposium on Worship | Seminar

Video Video | April 02, 2019

Christina Edmondson

Christina Edmondson on Church Multicultural Accessibility Committees

John 17 records Jesus’ prayer for unity “so that the world may know that you have sent me and loved them.” It is a powerful witness when churches model unity within diversity. This witness requires intention and prayer.

Conversation Conversation | July 02, 2018

Christina Edmondson

Christina Edmondson on Doctrine and Multicultural Hospitality

To become more multicultural, congregations must help members discern differences between biblical doctrines and cultural biases.

Conversation Conversation | June 29, 2018

Matthew D. Kim

Matthew D. Kim on Preaching with Cultural Intelligence

Preachers who interpret scripture without paying attention to cultural, ethnic, and other differences in their congregation miss out on opportunities to build bridges to their listeners’ lives.

Conversation Conversation | June 29, 2018

Jaewoo Kim

Jaewoo Kim on Making Room for Multicultural Worship

To worship in line with the Lord’s Prayer—on earth as it is in heaven—requires making room in worship for stories, songs, and gifts from many cultures. Doing so depends in part on how churches form their views about refugees and immigrants.

Conversation Conversation | February 28, 2018