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David Bailey and Mark Charles

Hope for America's Most Segregated Hour

2019 Cultivating Vital Worship | Session

Audio Audio | July 22, 2019

Nikki Lerner

10 Ways to Appropriately Respond to Racially-Fueled Events, Cultivating Vital Worship 2019

2019 Cultivating Vital Worship | Session

Audio Audio | July 15, 2019

Nikki Lerner

“I Hear You”: Dialogue around Race Stories

2019 Calvin Symposium on Worship | Workshop

Audio Audio | March 29, 2019

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

Elizabeth Tamez Méndez

Let the Times Declare!: Socio-demographic Shifts and the Future of Young People in the North American Church

What are the times proclaiming? What are the demographic shifts clamoring for our ministries?

Audio Audio | May 11, 2018

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Developing a Multiethnic Accent in Preaching

Congregations are becoming more diverse which increases the need for the church planter, missionary, and preacher to communicate biblical truth in relevant and compelling ways.

Audio Audio | February 25, 2015

Worship Across the Racial Divide (Book Excerpt)

Many scholars and church leaders believe that music and worship style are essential in stimulating diversity in congregations. Gerardo Marti draws on interviews with more than 170 congregational leaders and parishioners, as well as his experiences participating in worship services in a wide variety of Protestant, multiracial Southern Californian churches, to present this insightful study of the role of music in creating congregational diversity.

Book Excerpt Book Excerpt | October 16, 2012

David Bailey on Multicultural Power Dynamics

Musician David M. Bailey is the music director at East End Fellowship in Richmond, Virginia. In this edited conversation, he talks about becoming aware of power dynamics in multicultural congregations and neighborhoods. He lives in Church Hill, a neighborhood hard hit by economic decline.

Conversation Conversation | October 11, 2012

Overcoming Challenges to Racial and Ethnic Diversity

By looking at successfully diverse churches across the nation, this session revealed critical attitudes for cultivating a hospitable church, perspectives on recent immigration and the neighborhood church, and experiments on musical variety and global awareness.

Audio Audio | January 01, 2008

How Race Works in Multiracial Churches

This workshop was given for those who want a deeper understanding of racial dynamics in today?s churches. Stories and examples from real congregations showed how race within churches is becoming complicated?and creatively reconstructed?through the post-1965 waves of immigration. Most important, we show how various good-intentioned priorities and programs work --and often don?t work-- in racially diverse churches.

Audio Audio | January 01, 2008

The Cultural Context of American Worship

In this presentation, religion journalist Richard Ostling analyzed trends in American faith and culture that worship leaders, pastors and ordinary worshipers need to be aware of.

Audio Audio | January 01, 2008

Seeing Your Congregation with Expert Eyes: Culture, Race, Ethnicity

In an update from their Symposium session in 2007, five Calvin College social scientists describe what they've learned through in-depth analysis of congregational and worship life.

Audio Audio | January 01, 2008