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Alcántara, Elizabeth Conde-Frazier, and Lis Valle explore how their shared Latinx identity shapes the way they preach. They define the sermon performed latinamente as an improvisational, interactive, and transformative event embodied in community. Academic Article | February 08, 2021 A Lion and a Donkey are Standing on the Road: A Scripture Drama on 1 Kings 13 2020 Symposium on Worship | Vesper Video | February 24, 2020 Four Types of Advent and Christmas Eve Services: Which Have You Tried? Experimenting with a different Advent or Christmas Eve worship format may help worshipers connect with the joy and wonder of Christ’s birth. Blue Christmas, Christmas pageants, Las Posadas, or lessons and carols make room for emotions, movement, culture, and people’s gifts. Feature Story | November 15, 2018 Jon DeVries on Enacted Revelation Passages Maybe you have been moved by the power of enacted scripture dramas at a Calvin Symposium on Worship. Now you can learn from Jon DeVries how to create them. Conversation | May 04, 2017 Playing and Praying the Magnificat This vesper service from the 2017 Calvin Symposium on Christian Worship focuses on the Magnificat. Enacted Scripture | Video | March 10, 2017 Enacted Scripture: Revelation 1 Calvin College students give a dramatic presentation of Revelation 1. Enacted Scripture | Video | February 06, 2017 Enacted Scripture: Revelation 13 Calvin College students give a dramatic presentation of Revelation 13. Enacted Scripture | Video | February 06, 2017 Enacted Scripture: Revelation 21-22 Calvin College students give a dramatic presentation of Revelation 21-22. Enacted Scripture | Video | February 06, 2017 Enacted Scripture: Revelation 7 Calvin College students give a dramatic presentation of Revelation 7. Enacted Scripture | Video | February 06, 2017 Speech Communication in Worship A showcase featuring some thoughtful resources that can help all who participate in worship through public speaking do so hospitably, succinctly, wisely, and with imagination. Topic Showcase | June 14, 2016 When Music Helps Us Hear the Bible Sometimes the Bible rejoices when joined by song and sound! In this workshop, we experience a variety of simple ways music can help us receive the scripture in worship with our heads and our hearts. Audio | March 17, 2016 Joy-Elizabeth Lawrence on Choral Bible Reading Assigning different voices to different phrases can be an effective way to convey meaning in public scripture reading. This is known variously as choral reading, scripted scripture and enacted scripture. Conversation | January 12, 2016 Being Jesus on Good Friday On Good Friday, as congregations meditate on the betrayal, suffering, and death of Jesus, some liturgies call the Church to identify with those who judged, persecuted, mocked, and killed our Lord. This is a sobering reality, and appropriate. But, like many stories in the Bible, there are multiple implications within this narrative. Enacted Scripture | February 11, 2015 A Choral Reading of Ephesians 4:1-16 A choral reading based on Ephesians 4 from the NRSV. Enacted Scripture | July 23, 2014 A Choral Reading of Psalm 19 This is a choral reading based on Psalm 19 adapted for three speakers. Enacted Scripture | July 23, 2014 Psalm 104: A Choral Reading for 10 This is a drama script for 10 speakers based on Psalm 104 from the NRSV. Enacted Scripture | July 03, 2012 Symposium 2012 Photo Slideshow A slideshow of images from the 2012 Calvin Symposium on Worship, held January 26-28, 2012. The annual Calvin Symposium on Worship is an annual, three-day ecumenical conference that brings together a wide audience of pastors, worship leaders and planners, artists, musicians, scholars, students, and other interested worshipers. This year, the symposium explored praying and worshiping through the Psalms. Slideshow | February 13, 2012 Enacted Word: Using Theater to Present Scripture Learn a variety of techniques from theater and oral interpretation that can be used to proclaim Biblical texts. Video | January 27, 2012 Easter Resource Guide This list of Eastertide resources—including art, music, drama, devotions, liturgies, books, and sermons for the "Great Fifty Days" from Easter Sunday to Pentecost—will help you plan worship to celebrate Jesus Christ’s resurrection. Resource Guide | April 05, 2011 Awesome in Glory - Doug Porter A dramatic reading for three voices, specifically highlighting God's glory, a central dimension of Christian worship. 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