Interdisciplinary

Worship in the Season of Creation and Earth-Themed Sundays

Green congregations around the world celebrate the Season of Creation, emphasize earth keeping throughout the Christian Year and plan other earth-themed Sundays.

September 12, 2013 | 6 min read
Green Congregations Celebrate God’s New Creation in Worship

Christians often remind each other that worship is more about God’s beauty and glory than about us.

September 12, 2013 | 7 min read
Worship in the Season of Creation and Earth-Themed Sundays

Green congregations around the world celebrate the Season of Creation, emphasize earth keeping throughout the Christian Year and plan other earth-themed Sundays.

September 12, 2013 | 6 min read

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
Bob Waldrop on How Earth Care Led Him to God

In this edited conversation, based on emails and an April 2013 phone conversation, Bob Waldorp explains how his church work and activism fit together.

July 11, 2013 | 4 min read

Visiting Scholars Connect Worship and Life

Academic study can be a deep resource used to strengthen faith and ministry. It gives us language and frameworks to respectfully discuss vexing worship issues.

June 17, 2013 | 6 min read
Kristi Holmberg on Hope for Healing the Earth

Like many young adults, Kristi Holmberg is keenly aware of inheriting an earth damaged by previous generations. However, rather than despair or turn cynical, she began during college to connect with Christians who are working toward a just and sustainable future.

June 10, 2013 | 5 min read
Green Congregations Promote Sustainability

Whether your church goes solar, diverts money from utilities to missions or plants a community garden, you can find creative and sustainable ways to model that the earth is the Lord’s.

May 28, 2013 | 7 min read

Green Congregations Promote Sustainability

Whether your church goes solar, diverts money from utilities to missions or plants a community garden, you can find creative and sustainable ways to model that the earth is the Lord’s.

May 28, 2013 | 7 min read
Delight in Creation: When Science and Faith Talk

Calvin College and Calvin Seminary have teamed up to bring the voices of scientists into the consciousness of the church. Through “The Ministry Theorem” website and the new book Delight in Creation, Deborah Haarsma and Scott Hoezee have worked to foster fruitful conversations that connect the wonders of what science reveals about God’s creation with the ministries of the church.

February 22, 2013 | 59 min listen
Hospitality as a Central Christian Practice

Hospitality is a way of life, and when we offer hospitality, especially to folks who are usually overlooked or undervalued by the larger society, we make a strong statement about who is valuable and good to be with.

January 10, 2013 | 4 min read