Cultural Diversity

Sandra Bowden on Biblical Artist Sadao Watanabe

Sandra Bowden is a visual artist who has been interpreting scripture and her own spiritual walk through mixed media for more than 40 years.

November 20, 2013 | 4 min read
David Bailey on How Story Unifies Worshipers

Musician David M. Bailey is the music director at East End Fellowship, a multicultural Presbyterian congregation in the Church Hill neighborhood of Richmond, Virginia.

November 11, 2013 | 4 min read
Engaging Culture, Enriching Worship

This short video outlines the four main themes of the Nairobi Statement on Worship and Culture developed by the Lutheran World Federation. The video also touches on three meanings of the term "worship."

September 9, 2013 | 2 min video

Gerardo Marti on Emerging Church Demographics

After writing three books about multicultural worship, Gerardo Marti has applied his research skills to what’s been called the emerging church or emergent Christianity.

August 8, 2013 | 1 min read
Gerardo Marti on Emerging Churches and Religious Individualism

Gerardo Marti, professor of sociology at Davidson College in Davidson, North Carolina, is fascinated by diversity and innovation as aspects of how the world is changing and how that affects churches today.

August 8, 2013 | 3 min video

Ericson Alexander Molano: God Moves in the Midst of Praise and Worship

Integrity, humility and passion are some of the virtues that describe this young Colombian who grew up in the midst of mission trips, Bible studies and worship services due to his parent’s pastoral work.

July 31, 2013 | 17 min read
Doris Machin: "It is not one’s gender but one’s heart that defines one’s work in the Lord"

Doris Machin has sung before many different audiences in the United States, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean.

July 30, 2013 | 31 min read

Eddie Soto on Reencountering God at a Nightclub

When Chilean Eddie Soto was only nine years old, God touched his heart and planted a seed of light in his life. When adolescence arrived, he was so passionate about music that he forgot the experience he lived as a nine-year-old child.

July 30, 2013 | 18 min read
Danilo Montero: “Worship is tuning the Latino ear and musical sense”

In the past 25 years, Danilo Montero’s contribution has had such an influence on the Hispanic Church that his songs are part of worship in the Latino churches of the United States and in all countries that speak the language of Cervantes.

July 30, 2013 | 12 min read
Tony Perez on the Silence of God

Although Tony Perez was born in a Christian home in his Guatemalan homeland, it wasn’t until he was 22 that he had a personal encounter with the Lord, in a small church in the city of Huntington Park, California.

July 30, 2013 | 25 min read