The Voice of the Psalms: Sounding Scripture in Contemporary Contexts
This panel considers the psalms as a source of artistic and theological engagement, exploring how musicians and songwriters draw from these ancient texts to navigate the emotional complexity of the human experience. Through diverse musical approaches and cultural perspectives, the panelists will consider how the psalms continue to resonate in modern contexts by offering language for lament and praise, shaping liturgical practice, and fostering resilience in both personal and communal experience.
July 28, 2026
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71 min video
Vinroy D. Brown Jr. on Black Psalmody is for Everyone
Vinroy D. Brown Jr.—conductor, musicologist, educator, and minister of creative worship and music at the historic Abyssinian Baptist Church in New York City—explores the vibrant intersection of Black sacred music and the psalms. He talks about Black composers and how they have reimagined the psalms through choral music, spirituals, and the gospel tradition for the benefit of everyone.
December 2, 2025
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34 min listen
Public Worship, Wealth, and Poverty in Early Christianity
Explore how Christians in the earliest centuries of Christianity engaged topics related to wealth and poverty in their preaching, public prayers, offerings, celebrations of baptism and the Lord’s Supper, and the shaping of buildings and spaces for Christian worship.
August 27, 2025
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63 min video
Public Worship, Health Care, and Illness in Early Christianity
Explore how Christians in the earliest centuries of Christianity preached and prayed about illness, pain, and health care and shaped practices of baptism, the Lord’s Supper, and funerals in response to illness and injury, including during pandemics—all so that we can learn from their pastoral, theological, and practical instincts as we seek to be faithful witnesses to Christ in our own globally diverse contexts.
July 15, 2025
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63 min video
Welcoming All Bodies and Abilities into Worship and the Life of the Church
This session explores a biblical view of disability and practical ways of including people with disabilities in every aspect of the church for the flourishing of the entire worshiping community.
February 10, 2023
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60 min video
Moving from Dividing Walls of Hostility toward Christian Unity
In this session panelists share best practices for navigating difficult topics that divide the church and discuss the importance of Christian unity.
February 9, 2023
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79 min video
Public Worship and CQ: Formative Practices for Loving God and Our Neighbors
A conversation on cultural intelligence with Kai Ton Chau and Satrina Reid
December 2, 2021
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28 min video
Christian Worship and Cultural Identities
A conversation with Kenny Wallace and Satrina Reid
November 18, 2021
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1 min read
One Body, Many Members: Disability and Diversity in the Church
"For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in the one Spirit we were all baptized into one body." -1 Cor. 12:12-13. The body of Christ is one body made up of individual members with both visible and hidden differences in abilities. What difference does it make to believe that each member has been arranged in the body as God has chosen? How can the church better live into the reality of this oneness while celebrating the gifts of its unique members regardless of ability? This is a YouTube Video Premiere panel discussion.
November 16, 2021
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64 min video
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.
January 22, 2021
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56 min video
Célestin Musekura on Forgiving as We Have Been Forgiven
In this episode, Célestin Musekura talks about the humanizing and justice-focused work of forgiveness, for individuals, communities and Christian worship.
November 3, 2020
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35 min listen
Vince Bantu on Celebrating Christianity's Global Identity
In this episode, Fuller Theological Seminary professor Vince Bantu talks around his passion of bringing together cultural identity and faith and the timely reminder that Christianity has always been a global religion.
November 3, 2020
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31 min listen
