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Rembrandt, The Storm on the Sea of Galilee

Visio Divina: Sacred Seeing to Encounter God

Just as lectio divina invites people to meditate on scripture, visio divina helps people pray with art. Visio divina, which translates as “divine seeing,” uses silence and images to help worshipers reflect and respond to God in ways other than listening to a sermon or singing praise songs.

Feature Story Feature Story | November 03, 2021

Neal Plantinga Interviews Mako Fujimura

Beauty, Silence, and Culture Care: An Interview with Makoto Fujimura

Theologian Neal Plantinga engages with artist and author Mako Fujimura on his vision for complementing recent work on creation care with what he has termed “culture care”—a redemptive approach to artistry and other forms of cultural engagement which seeks to contribute to “the healing of the nations.”

Video Video | March 14, 2017

Singing and praying for the suffering church.

Silence and Beauty — Prayers for the Suffering Church

This vesper service from the 2017 Calvin Symposium on Christian Worship focuses on prayers for the suffering church.

Video Video | March 10, 2017

Silence, Beauty, and the Shape of Christian Discipleship

A video conversation and discussion guide to help shape Christian responses to questions of love and suffering, silence and beauty, as explored in the Martin Scorsese movie ‘Silence’ based on Shusaku Endo's novel.

Article Article | Video Video | November 28, 2016

Nancy Gordon

Nancy Gordon on Sensing the Sacred

Nancy Gordon adapted the multisensory Young Children in Worship program for people with dementia. Her model deserves to be spread and developed more widely.

Conversation Conversation | October 17, 2016

Olivia Stewart

Children and Worship

With a new frontier of research on children's spirituality, research as well as experience is showing churches that creating a sacred space for children, where they can encounter the living God, is vital for their faith formation.

Audio Audio | March 02, 2016

Olivia Stewart

Olivia Stewart on Young Children and Worship

It sounds counter-intuitive, especially today. But it turns out that helping children learn to get quiet in their own ways is huge for helping them encounter God.

Conversation Conversation | January 21, 2016

Lessons from a Donkey

Mark Charles looks at how one's voice can be heard above all the noise of the world.

Article Article | September 28, 2011

Paved Roads

“Be still and know that I am God.” That is the exhortation we hear from God in Psalms 46:10. But how possible is this in our modern technological world? What does it mean to be still before God? I used to think I understood

Article Article | January 01, 2009

Silence's Scintillating Divine Speech

Silence in worship aids our recollection, meditation, and our praise. Since silence is so rare in our noisy culture, worship can help us recover silence as sacred.

Article Article | June 01, 2004