Joel Carpenter on Matter and Spirit Exhibition
When U.S. artists and Chinese artists traveled together in China, they learned the unique challenges of expressing Christian faith through the visual arts in each other’s contexts.
Workshop | The Multiple Streams of African-American Worship Practices: Insights for the Global Church
2019 Calvin Symposium on Worship | Workshop
Angie Hong on Imagining Worship as an Egalitarian Zone
Christian worship services can support or contradict the biblical vision of the church as one body with many parts. Here’s how corporate worship can help worshipers practice equity across lines of gender, race, ability, socioeconomics, and sexuality.
Jean Ngoya Kidula on African Church Musics
Ethnomusicologist Jean Ngoya Kidula invites churches around the world to learn more about what she calls African church “musics” so they can glimpse how vast God is.
Jean Ngoya Kidula on Ethnomusicology and Ethnodoxology
Scholar Jean Ngoya Kidula explains how ethnomusicology and ethnodoxology can widen churches’ musical palates. Accepting this opportunity will expand how congregations understand and praise God.
Worship and Culture
2019 Calvin Symposium on Worship | Seminar
Worship and Christian Community Development
2019 Calvin Symposium on Worship | Seminar
How Music Deepens Participation in the Lord's Supper and Baptisms: Insights from Global Cultures
2019 Calvin Symposium on Worship | Seminar
Multilingual Singing for English-Speaking Congregations
2019 Calvin Symposium on Worship | Seminar
Preaching While White: Practices of Humility and Courage in the Face of Injustice
2019 Calvin Symposium on Worship | Workshop
Frank Thomas on the Power of African-American Preaching
“How is it that you can take a group of people who are in despair and when you get finished preaching the gospel, they have hope?” This question sent Frank Thomas down a path that led him nearly forty years later to create the first PhD program in African-American preaching.
Psalms and Islam: Reimagining Interfaith Friendship in an Islamic Context
2019 Calvin Symposium on Worship | Workshop