Cultural Diversity

Joel Carpenter on Artists as Prophets and Seers of Hope

Twenty artists from North America and South Africa created “Between the Shadow and the Light: Artists’ Prophetic Responses to South Africa Today.”

November 19, 2014 | 1 min read
More Than Technique: All worship planners and leaders have a pastoral calling

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.

November 17, 2014 | 12 min read


Fasting: A cross-cultural perspective on the season of Lent

The Season of Lent brings to mind the historical practice of fasting, of “giving up” something in order to “take up” something else.

October 30, 2014 | 2 min read
Kendra Buckwalter Smith on Authentic Global Worship

Kendra Buckwalter Smith is the worship coordinator at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. PTS has chapel four days a week, and Smith meets with every person or team that plans a chapel service.

August 29, 2014 | 5 min read