Culturally Responsive, Trauma-Informed Worship
In today’s diverse and interconnected world, understanding and addressing trauma through a culturally responsive lens is essential for creating inclusive and healing worship experiences.
Why Confronting What Divides Us Is a Gospel Issue
This workshop will examine why corporate gathering and worship as the church require us to address potentially polarizing issues.
Cultivating the Creative Life
What is creativity, and why do we still need to talk about it? Join Sandra McCracken in a conversation on faith, imagination, and creativity.
Preaching and Soul Care (For Preachers and Their Hearers)
In a world generically “spiritual,” how does a preacher tend to the highest calling of the pastoral life: the tending of souls?
Women and the Gender of God
At the intersection of theology and anthropology, this session will investigate the impact of the language Christians use for God.
Women in the Parables: Unveiling Their Influence and Impact in Jesus’ Teachings
Explore the sometimes overlooked but vital roles women play in the parables of Jesus.
We Are All Here: Worship and the Common Work of Suicide Prevention
Suicide is a deeply personal and all-too-present reality in Christian congregations.
Living Under Water: Baptism as a Way of Life
Baptism is often contentious. It breeds arguments and division, splitting congregations and families.
How the Nicene Creed’s 1,700th Anniversary Can Unify Christians
In popular culture, the ancient Council of Nicaea is sometimes seen as a conspiracy to consolidate power. Some Baptist, evangelical, and nondenominational churches are resistant to creeds, and Christians who recite the Nicene Creed weekly or at least regularly in Catholic, Orthodox, and many Protestant traditions don’t appreciate the depth of the theology in what they are saying. Still, many theologians and historians hope that celebrating the 1,700th anniversary of the Nicene Creed in 2025 can unify global Christians.
Psalms for Families: Devotions for All Ages
Psalms for Families is a devotional e-book for the entire family designed to help parents explore the riches of the book of Psalms with their children and teens. These devotionals will help parents learn more about the psalms as they teach about praise, prayer, and lament.
Hebrews: The Story of God’s Faithful Grace
Many consider the author of Hebrews the most adept storyteller in the New Testament due to the epistle’s comprehensiveness and rhetorical finesse.
Public Worship, Health Care, and Illness in Early Christianity
Explore how Christians in the earliest centuries of Christianity preached and prayed about illness, pain, and health care and shaped practices of baptism, the Lord’s Supper, and funerals in response to illness and injury, including during pandemics—all so that we can learn from their pastoral, theological, and practical instincts as we seek to be faithful witnesses to Christ in our own globally diverse contexts.