Cultural Diversity

Celebrating Christmas in Pakistan

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.

December 10, 2014 | 4 min read

Brokenness Is an Important Element in Worship

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.

November 20, 2014 | 16 min read
David Bailey on Reconciliation and Worship Response Times

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.

November 20, 2014 | 1 min read
The Blessing and Bane of the North American Evangelical Megachurch

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.

November 20, 2014 | 1 min read

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