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Guitar Technique for Playing in Worship

Explore a jazz and classical guitarist's techniques for playing in worship. Jason Werkema demonstrates left- and right-hand exercises, fretboard memorization, expanded chord voicings, fingerstyle technique, and much more!

Video | February 21, 2023

Christ-Centered Pathways of Reconciliation in Christian Life & Worship

What can ministry and worship look like among people who are bitterly opposed to each other? Around the world, congregations gather for worship every week, defining themselves by how they’re different from other nearby Christian worshiping communities. A conversation with Munther Isaac, Ann Kapteyn, Najla Kassab, Kiran Young Wimberly, moderated by John D. Witvliet

Video | December 02, 2021

And We Shall Learn Through the Dance

A conversation on the integral role of dance and movement in worship with Kathleen Turner and Paul Ryan

Video | December 02, 2021

Modern Day Prophets: How Artists and Activists Expand Public Worship

A conversation with Nikki Toyama-Szeto and Noel Snyder

Conversation | November 18, 2021

Virtual Book Event: Sermons that Sing

How can the art of music inform the practice of preaching? In what ways might preachers profitably draw upon musical instincts as they seek to spiritually form worshipers through the ministry of preaching? Join us as we reflect on these questions in celebration of Noel Snyder’s new book, "Sermons that Sing."

Book Excerpt | October 25, 2021

The Theology behind Early Christian Worship

A discussion of the relationship between worship and theology in the early church, and what this means for us today.

Video | November 03, 2020

Forming New Worshiping Communities: Church Planting in the 21st Century

Worship can change lives when people--whether unchurched or eager for fresh expressions of worship and life together--understand what they are doing and why.

Video | October 29, 2020

Vertical Habits: Helping Congregations Rediscover the Striking Beauty of Conversation with God

Good relationships are built on healthy practices; the same is true for our relationship with God.

Audio | May 03, 2018

Worshiping in Spirit and in Truth

Join with Marianne Meye Thompson in this plenary on worshiping in spirit and in truth.

Video | April 27, 2018

The Future of Latino Protestants in America

Latino Protestantism is growing in the United States due to a combination of immigration, birth rates, and conversion. This expanding stream of American Christianity will foster shifts in the liturgy and worship of churches in unexpected ways.

Audio | April 10, 2018

Mental Health and the Practice of Christian Public Worship: An Exploratory Conversation

Sessions related to mental health are not a common feature of many conferences on worship. Yet mental-health-related concerns affect as many as one in five people at any given time, with one of every twenty-five people living with serious mental health challenges. More than four in ten people in the United States experiences a psychological disorder in their lifetime. What we say or fail to say about these challenges in worship settings can be profoundly formative for how Christian communities respond to these challenges

Audio | February 13, 2018

The Geography of Worship

An annotated research guide from the field of geography, exploring the relevance of place, space, and human/environment interactions for the study of worship practices.

Resource Guide | December 05, 2017

Reflections from a Charlottesville Church . . .

Isaac Wardell, Director of Worship Arts at Trinity Presbyterian Church in Charlottesville, Virginia, shares reflections from his experience shepherding their Charlottesville congregation in Sunday worship through the trauma of hatred, bigotry, and violence that took place in their small town less than one day before they gathered for worship.

Reflection | August 28, 2017

Public Worship as Sign and Means of New Creation

N. T. Wright gives his plenary address at Worship Symposium 2017.

Audio | Video | February 15, 2017

What Makes Christian Worship Trinitarian?

The doctrine of the Trinity is old, deep, and mysterious. How should Christian trinitarianism manifest itself in worship—that is, beyond simple repetition of the trinitarian formula?

Audio | February 14, 2017

Rediscovering the Beauty of Rest

Resources in the Bahasa Indo language from the Malang Choral Festival II held in Indonesia.

Resource Guide | October 27, 2016

Worship as Spiritual Formation

The privilege of Christian worship is the invitation to the community by our holy God to encounter the love of that living God and to be transformed by it and to nurture the transformation of one another.

Video | May 04, 2016

Worship and Public Engagement

That corporate worship must equip us for serving God’s purposes in the world, certainly means that we must attend to the social-political-economic dimensions of our lives as citizens. How do we structure our congregational patterns with this in mind without making our worship “too political”?

Video | April 25, 2016

Worship in Times of Tension

We’ve all been there or will be—planning worship when things just aren’t the way they are supposed to be. Tension and even conflict will happen in every church at some point.