Upcoming Event
An Application-Based Summer Seminar Directed by Felicia Wu Song
July 21 - 25, 2025
Grand Rapids
,
Michigan
Global Perspectives on Worship
In this Symposium session, we explore cultural and liturgical issues our brothers and sisters are addressing, especially in Africa and Asia - for example, intergenerational and multicultural worship; use of indigenous songs, instruments, and dance; use of technology; challenges of religious pluralism. We explore how God is building his church in ways that move us all closer to the unity we have in Christ even as we celebrate the gifts of cultural diversity.
January 1, 2006
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50 min listen
Praying for Christians in Egypt (and elsewhere)
It was just a simple email between friends--but now a Canadian congregation prays for Christians in Egypt. Your church can just as easily make congregational prayers more global. A feature story exploring the inclusion of Global concerns in our congregational prayers.
December 9, 2005
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8 min read
Presbyterians in India struggle to balance indigenous and received culture
Whether they are drama leaders in a North American mega church or Catholic priests in a Mexican village, Christians everywhere wrestle with how much of culture to appropriate in worship. They debate the difference between yielding to syncretism and following Paul’s desire “to become all things to all men so that by all possible means I might save some”
December 9, 2005
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2 min read
Love Globally, Worship Locally: How to do church as members of one body
As those who led worship at the Reformed Ecumenical Council Assembly learned, global worship involves a lot more than tossing in a song from another country or culture. A feature story exploring Global Worship.
September 16, 2005
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9 min read
One Day of Hope: Resistance, Spirituality, and Sabbath-keeping - Bethany Keeley
Part of being a Christian in the Reformed tradition is a belief that religion applies to all parts of life; it is with this background that I approach questions of mass culture and cultural resistance.
August 23, 2005
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37 min read
Korean American Churches: From generation to generation
Why do so many Koreans convert to Christianity? And why is it so difficult to pass on this faith to children and grandchildren? A feature story exploring Korean American churches and how their faith is passed down from generation to generation.
July 5, 2005
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11 min read
Drumming in Intergenerational Worship
This article explores drumming as it relates to multicultural worship, special needs members, gender equality, and socio-economic equality.
June 15, 2005
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10 min read
When Work Is An Adventure
A service plan based on Psalm 8:5-8 and Ecclesiastes 5:18-20 calling out the need for human beings made in the image of God to have purpose and excitement in their work in a series focused on vocation and how our faith and our work are integrated.
June 1, 2005
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10 min read
Growing With Peter Series: On the Mountain with Jesus - Matthew 17
A service plan in a Lenten series on the transfiguration of Jesus and what impact that had on Peter.
June 1, 2005
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12 min read
Dislocated People - Celebrating World Communion Sunday - Ephesians 1
A service plan and resource suggestions for World Communion Sunday. Although the unity of the church needs constant attention, days like this give us opportunity to recommit ourselves to the life of unity to which Christ calls us.
June 1, 2005
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9 min read
May We All Be One! - World Communion Sunday - John 17
A service plan for World Communion Sunday. This service celebrates with the Church of Christ in all cultures.
June 1, 2005
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11 min read
Divine Glory: A Song Worth Singing/Show Us Your Glory - Revelation 5 (sympos 07)
A service adapted from one prepared by Brother Max Thurian of the Community of Taizé. The liturgy draws from various Christian traditions, in order to express the faith held in common by churches throughout the world.
June 1, 2005
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9 min read