Kyle Meyaard-Schaap on the Arts as a Climate Tipping Point
Music and the arts have fueled major movements for justice. Evangelical Christians have the potential to shift climate action. That's why Christian leaders and musicians are creating worship songs and candlelight climate vigils to address climate crisis and work toward environmental sustainability.
Richard Bodini on the Pandemic and Senior Faith Formation
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced care facility chaplains to adapt. Your church can apply some of these best practices—and remember to include senior care residents and staff in congregational prayers.
Why Church? A Session for College and University Students
This interactive session is for all college and university students and invites young leaders to voice the role of church in today’s context, and then to explore how their leadership in the church is essential.
Why Church? A Session for College and University Students
This interactive session is for all college and university students and invites young leaders to voice the role of church in today’s context, and then to explore how their leadership in the church is essential.
Mimi L. Larson on Engaging Children in Worship
As full image-bearers of God, children can and do have authentic experiences of worship. God interacts with and wants to be in relationship with them. Mimi L. Larson is researching how faith development styles and church theology influence children’s faith formation.
Deanna A. Thompson on the Virtual Body of Christ in a Suffering World
In this episode, Deanna Thompson of St. Olaf College talks about her 2016 book "The Virtual Body of Christ in a Suffering World," which was written from her experience of living with cancer and now takes on additional meaning in our COVID-shaped world.
What We are Learning about the Church from Calvin University Students
A panel of Calvin students with varying church and leadership church experiences will share how their participation in the local church has deepened their love for the Church as the body of Christ.
Multiple Pathways for Youth
2021 Online Calvin Symposium on Worship | On-Demand Panel Discussion Video
Lora Copley on Preparing Families for Sunday Worship
If you have been wanting to start or strengthen your family’s faith formation, perhaps the new coronavirus pandemic offers a novel opportunity.
Lora Copley and Elizabeth Vander Haagen on Family Prayer and Worship
Families spending more time together during COVID-19 stay-at-home orders have the opportunity to nurture—or begin—daily practices of family worship and prayer.
Intergenerational Youth Ministry During COVID-19
Congregations looking to keep their members connected as the body of Christ could organize a “mail buddy” system, pairing children and youth with other church members homebound because of COVID-19.
Children in the Worshiping Community
2020 Calvin Symposium on Worship | Workshop