Published on
May 25, 2022
Video length
1 mins

Maria Cornou, moderator.

Jeremy Perigo (Dordt University)

To investigate emerging issues in liturgical theology through podcast and video interviews with scholars and practitioners, in order to empower local ministry leaders and churches to discern theologically and imagine liturgically the characteristics of Christian worship in their own context.

John (Lester) Ruth, Adam Perez, and Glenn Stallsmith (Duke University Divinity School)

To survey the present state of college and seminary instruction on the theology, history, and practice of contemporary praise and worship, and to engage scholars in conversation around recent and emerging scholarship on contemporary worship in order to create a podcast series and a curriculum guide for worship educators and church practitioners.

Karen Johnson (Wheaton College)

To study Christians who have historically worshipped together across racial lines, using case studies to explore how thinking Christianly and historically about race’s effect on American worship might help churches foster reconciliation in the present.

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