Singing Our Savior's Story: Songs for Congregations, Choirs and Worship Teams
This seminar explores a rich variety of music that reflects deeply on the life of Jesus, and it is appropriate for any service based on one of the four New Testament gospels, including some songs that focus on "telling the story," others that are adept at "unpacking the meaning of the story," and still others that "help us see ourselves taken up into the story."
March 7, 2017
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103 min video
Tú Jesús, nuestra esperanza/Come to Be Our Hope, Jesus
A bilingual pilgrimage of songs and prayers that trace the life of Jesus and testify to healing and transformation which Jesus' ministry continues to bring through the Holy Spirit.
March 6, 2017
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53 min video
The Economies of Pentecost: Postcolonial Reflections on Pastoral Care, Healing, and Christian Worship
An annotated research guide from the field of practical theology,
focusing on pastoral care and the African American experience
February 24, 2017
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1 min read
Trauma, Culture Care, and Public Worship
What does faithful ministry look like after trauma? What if that trauma is public trauma, like ministry after 9-11 in New York or after recent trauma in Ferguson or Orlando?
February 24, 2017
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124 min video
The Economies of Pentecost: Postcolonial Reflections on Pastoral Care, Healing, and Christian Worship
An annotated research guide from the field of practical theology,
focusing on pastoral care and the African American experience
February 24, 2017
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1 min read
Shaping a Reformation Commemoration Prayer or Worship Service
This workshop explores the ways we can prepare to commemorate this significant anniversary with both grace and truth, acknowledging both the insights and limitations of the Reformers, expressing gratitude for Christ-centered renewal and lament for divisions and even violence within Christ’s body.
February 23, 2017
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59 min listen
Approaching Civic Holidays as Occasions of Both Thanksgiving and Lament
The Psalms form us as people of faith to express both thanks and lament to God. This offers us a perspective that is especially needed when we worship together on or near civil holidays, and face the temptation to promote a civic religion substitute for robust Christian vision.
February 23, 2017
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56 min listen
Here Are My Hands: A Practical Workshop on Affirming Vocation in Weekly Worship Practices
Isaac Wardell, Bruce Benedict, and Laura Fanucci provide some very practical first steps for congregations with a desire to address vocation in worship.
February 23, 2017
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59 min listen
Loving Your Neighbor with Dementia
By the end of 2015, more than 5,000,000 Americans were living with dementia. This number is expected to increase in the years ahead as the population ages.
February 22, 2017
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63 min listen
Prophetic Lament
When Soong-Chan Rah planted an urban church near Boston, he began with a series of sermons on the Book of Lamentations, a radical counter-cultural approach to ministry that later became the basis for his book Prophetic Lament.
February 22, 2017
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119 min video
Innovation in Worship: Working with a Team to Make Healthy Changes
Listen to a diverse group of panelists from various churches across North America describe how they envisioned and led their congregations through changes in worship.
February 16, 2017
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74 min listen
What J.S. Bach's Music Means for Worship Today
What is it like to be a church musician today in the same place that J.S. Bach once worked? In what ways can Bach's music be a model for us?
February 15, 2017
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61 min listen
