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Visual artists can help us start talking about major life issues that we don’t often acknowledge in worship.
Jesus calls us to love our neighbors as ourselves. What does that mean for conversations about injustices, including racism, both in the U.S. and around the world. Steve Prince creates visual art that can help us start talking.
The month of December brings joyful tidings across the world as more than two billion people anticipate celebrating the birth of Christ on December 25 although the Orthodox churches celebrate 12 days later.
Pastor Javier Buelna: It is addiction to emotions that creates no change.
The music of the megachurch is both a bane and a blessing. The key task is discerning which of its dimensions fall in each category.
A few years ago, East End Fellowship, a multicultural Presbyterian congregation in Richmond, VA, started an urban songwriting internship and a gospel choir to reflect its congregational values of incarnation and reconciliation.
The Rev. Hugo Molano and his wife Nubia founded Salem International Ministries in their native Columbia in 1979. They continued expanding their work with the planting of new churches in Venezuela, Peru, and Mexico, until reaching the United States about 27 years ago.
Twenty artists from North America and South Africa created “Between the Shadow and the Light: Artists’ Prophetic Responses to South Africa Today.”
John Calvin wrote much about the value, purpose, and nature of Christian liturgy.
This article describes the role of the worship planner and provides suggestions for worship planning in a wide range of churches and worshiping communities.
This article translated into Korean calls for worship services that seek to enable the participation of adults and children alike.
We need a perspective, a way of conceptualizing our role as worship leaders that will sustain us in our day-to-day work in our congregations.
