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María Cornou

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 Conversation | July 08, 2020

David Bailey and Mark Charles

Hope for America's Most Segregated Hour

2019 Cultivating Vital Worship | Session

Audio Audio | July 22, 2019

Reggie Smith and Meg Jenista Kuykendall

Preaching While White: Practices of Humility and Courage in the Face of Injustice

2019 Calvin Symposium on Worship | Workshop

Audio Audio | April 10, 2019

Cheryl Bear, Jaewoo Kim, Amgad Beblawi, Jenny Yang, and Gerardo Marti

Welcoming the Stranger: Justice, Compassion, and Truth in Christian Worship and Life

All over the world, Christian churches are struggling to obey the Bible’s clear commands to welcome the stranger, to displace the fear that leads to exclusion, and to both extend and receive mutual hospitality as gifts of God’s Spirit.

Audio Audio | February 16, 2018

When Helping Heals

When Helping Heals: Affirming Global Service in our Churches

Providing charitable support and development assistance to people in need can and does work, but, like any important activity, we must learn how to do it well.

Article Article | August 22, 2017

Todd Cioffi

The Church Behind Bars

This session explores the growth of the church behind bars in several Michigan prisons and in Angola Prison in Louisiana.

Audio Audio | March 04, 2016

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Worship, Beauty, Justice, and Shalom

In a recent essay on "Beauty & Justice," Nicholas Wolterstorff writes "what unites love of understanding, worship, beauty, and justice is that these are all dimensions of shalom.

Audio Audio | February 20, 2015

The Story of Ruth by John August Swanson

If You Want Justice, Work for Beauty

Really? In the face of so much global need, the arts are a necessity?

Feature Story Feature Story | February 18, 2015

The Church: Passionate for Justice and Compassion

Sixth worship service in a collection of building blocks for a series of worship services based on key themes from the Belhar Confession

Worship Service Worship Service | December 12, 2012

The Strange Silence of Songs of Justice in Contemporary Biblical Worship

The word justice is never far hidden in the vocabulary of the psalmists. Over half the psalms specifically use the word. But in worship today, particularly in the Western church, the word is suspect and politicised.

Audio Audio | January 27, 2012

Just Worship

We listen to the cry of the prophet Isaiah, voicing God's call to God's people regarding the true nature of worship and the inextricable bond between our relationship with God and our relationship with one another, and particularly with the most downtrodden among us.

Audio Audio | March 18, 2011

Going Deeper as Members of One Body

Meeting the 'invisible' people who help put food on their tables helped Westminster Presbyterian middle schoolers see how Scripture, life, and worship connect.

Feature Story Feature Story | June 02, 2010

Worshiping the Trinity in Exile: The Prophetic Church with a Post-Era Mission

In a post-postmodern, high-tech, super-hyped, and anti-institutional world, how should we be Church and how should we be the Church at worship and in mission? How will our means match the ends so that worship is faithful to the Jesus of the cross?

Audio Audio | March 23, 2010

The Church for the Sake of the World: Urban Challenges Today

This workshop focused on discerning and acting on the call to integrate worship with ministry in order to be with those who are least and last through the example of LaSalle Street Church in downtown Chicago with a 40 year history in social engagement.

Audio Audio | March 23, 2010

Matthew's Sermon on the Mount

This study of Matthew 5-7 investigated the main teachings of the whole sermon and their relation to us, the Church, and the world.

Audio Audio | March 23, 2010

Worship and Civility

In what ways can the church's worshiping life equip people for the patterns of civility-public politeness-that make for good citizenship? Should we even care about the question?

Audio Audio | March 22, 2010

How to Connect Church-Based Community Ministry Programs to Corporate Worship

Starting with his own very diverse church and community connections, Tony Campbell explored the many different ministry opportunities Christians have to deepen relationships between church and community, and offer a variety of ways to celebrate those relationships in worship.?

Audio Audio | March 22, 2010

Justice and Suffering in Worship Centered on God

Setri Nyomi, general secretary of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, explains why confessing that Jesus is Lord applies to the economy and earth. As the Accra Confession affirms, God calls for just relationships with all creation--so our worship should reflect that faith stance. A feature story exploring Justice and Suffering in Worship centered on God.

Feature Story Feature Story | June 01, 2009

Worship that Renews the Me and Transforms the Us

Drawing from their diverse ministry experience, Jim and Rose Dekker --in Latin American ecumenical and spiritual direction-- and Jonathan Bradford --in a U.S. urban context-- explored the biblical concepts of knowing Christ the servant and serving Christ the Sovereign Lord. All of life must really be worship.

Audio Audio | January 01, 2009

Prayer in the Life of a Third Millennium Monastery: What We're Learning

This session featured stories, prayers, and insights from the first year of the Stockbridge Boiler Room, a simple Christian community that practices a daily rhythm of prayer, study, and celebration while caring actively for the poor and the lost.

Audio Audio | January 01, 2009