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Now you can learn from Jon DeVries how to create them. Conversation | May 04, 2017 Worship in Times of Trauma: Gabriel Salguero Pastor Gabriel Salguero reminds us the soul has hunger and needs. Good worship speaks to the body and the soul. Video | March 27, 2017 Introducing Songs from Other Cultures: Alfredo Colman Ethnomusicologist Alfredo Colman encourages musicians who lead congregational songs from other cultures to engage with someone from that culture in order to understand and find ways in introduce songs in worship that respect and honor God and the culture. Video | March 27, 2017 Open to Embracing the Difference: Emmett G. Price III Emmett G. Price III reflects on the how worship brings together people with unique differences. Video | March 23, 2017 Prophetic Lament in Worship: Gabriel Salguero Gabriel Salguero argues that the act of worship on Sunday must be tied to and result in the act of justice outside of Sunday. Video | March 23, 2017 Singing Psalms and the Lord’s Prayer: Lily Constantine Kakish and Eric Sarwar Lily Constantine Kakish and Eric Sarwar share their stories of how they have witnessed the identity-shaping impact of singing Psalms and the Lord's Prayer in the Arabic language and tune. Video | March 23, 2017 Worship in the Heart Language: Dwight Kelly Jamaican pastor, Dwight Kelly, reflects on how scripture songs can be written in the language of the worshiper's heart. Heartsongs use words that reflect the context and language of those who are singing them. Video | March 23, 2017 Bringing the Workplace into Church: Luke Bobo Luke Bobo explains the pastoral importance of establishing the bridge between our work experience on weekdays and our worship on Sundays. Video | March 23, 2017 The Need for Lament: Soong-Chan Rah Soong-Chan Rah argues that the deeply rooted triumphalism and exceptionalism in the American society are causing the absence of lament in the American churches. Video | March 22, 2017 Bruce Theron on Decolonizing Worship in South Africa Imagine singing “In the Bleak Midwinter” during the long hot days of Christmas in South Africa. The Bible is rich enough to include themes and symbols more relevant to living out Christian faith in the Global South. Conversation | March 16, 2017 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 | March 14, 2017 Revelation 22: The River of Life/El río de la vida A bi-lingual worship service held at Worship Symposium 2017 Video | March 13, 2017 Revelation 21-27: The New Heaven and Earth A worship service held at Worship Symposium 2017 Video | March 13, 2017 Many Colors Paint the Rainbow: A Service of Scripture Proclamation, Choral, and Congregational Song The Calvin College Alumni Choir collaborates with members of Coro Polifónico from the Seminario Internacional Teológico Bautista in Argentina and Artists Creating Together, a Grand Rapids-based choir that empowers individuals with disabilities to learn, grow, and celebrate through the arts to lead songs, hymns, and anthems which express our profound solidarity as members together of Christ’s body. Video | March 13, 2017 Singing Psalms: An Outpouring of Contemporary Song for Congregational Use Remarkably, even since the publication of Psalms for All Seasons just a few years ago, over 30 new Psalm-based songwriting and recording projects have emerged from a variety of contemporary worship leaders across North America and beyond. While some of these settings are designed for solo voices, many are well-suited to congregational use, and are worthy heirs to the legacy of congregation-based Psalms re-established by Luther and Calvin. Video | March 10, 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 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 | March 10, 2017 Bringing Hymns to Life on Guitar We’ve heard many of the great old hymns played beautifully with organs, pianos, and choirs, but their journey into the world of guitar-led worship can be awkward. Old tunes are often abandoned or significantly altered in the name of modernization, but such revision is not always necessary. Video | March 08, 2017 From Generation to Generation: Many Voices Singing the One Body Two hymn writers and collaborators, one Roman Catholic and one Protestant, representing different generations, explore how the demographic, ethnic and denominational differences of contemporary American culture offer challenges and opportunities in crafting new, relevant and faithful song for Christian communities. Video | March 08, 2017 Designing Worship from the Bottom Up: Practical Ethnographic Tools for Worship Leaders The “Faith and Work” movement has become popular in many churches in North America in recent years. Many have sought to bridge the gap between Sunday worship and Monday work by showing how Christian liturgy and theology affect how we approach our weekday work. But our weekday work also affects how we inhabit Sunday worship in profound ways, and those who lead and craft liturgies do well to be attentive to this reality. Video | March 07, 2017 1 2 3 ... Next »
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