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Forgiveness and the Worship and Witness of the Church

This conversation with Célestin Musekura and Satrina Reid will engage the topic of forgiveness and its role in the worshiping community and how forgiveness and reconciliation affects our witness to the world.

Video | January 22, 2021

Why Church? A Session for College and University Students

This interactive session is for all college and university students and invites young leaders to voice the role of church in today’s context, and then to explore how their leadership in the church is essential.

Video | January 12, 2021

Embracing Uncertainty: A Session for Seminarians and Graduate Students

The uncertainty of when this pandemic will end and who we will be post-pandemic leaves each of us feeling unresolved. This session is for all seminarians and academics in graduate school to come together to explore how we can be formed to embrace and thrive in uncertain times.

Video | January 04, 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

For High Schoolers: Reimagining Worship at School and Church Post COVID-19

Remember what it was like to worship together, in-person? This session is for all high school age students and their teachers: Join us for a discussion of hopes and dreams for worship in high schools and your church community post-COVID-19.

Video | November 03, 2020

All Creation Groans: An Interview with Katharine Hayhoe

Can worship practices help heal our broken relationship with the more-than-human creation? How might lament, gratitude, the sacraments, and embodied actions reanimate our love for God’s world? Join this conversation with Katharine Hayhoe and Debra Rienstra

Video | October 30, 2020

Worship 101

What are the basics that every worship planner and leader should know? Come find out by listening to the Calvin University Worship Apprentices as they share key insights and practices learned through serving in worship during the fall of 2020.

Video | October 29, 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

Leading Beyond the Blizzard

A conversation on leadership in pandemic times with Andy Crouch and Kathy Smith

Video | October 29, 2020

Preaching Romans in Difficult Times

We have been and are living in a time of upheaval, fear, unrest, and finally so much death. The pandemic has in many places revealed cracks in the veneer of civilization, casting into bold relief the social and economic inequities that run like fault lines through most societies. Racially motivated violence, including at the hands of police forces, have unleashed deep desires for reform and for justice for all people. In and through it all, believers everywhere cry for reassurance, for comfort, for a hope that points to a better path ahead.

Video | October 29, 2020

Universal Design, Public Worship, and the Christian Life

Join together with John D. Witvliet, director of the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship, in this opening session focused on welcoming all to the online Symposium experience, highlighting the legacy of Barbara Newman and her work on Universal Design for Worship, and reflecting on vocational worship leadership in Christian community as we begin 2021.

Video | October 29, 2020