Upcoming Event
An application-based summer seminar directed by Mark Glanville.
June 22-26, 2026
Grand Rapids
,
Michigan
Shaping Worship During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Maintaining Community via Virtual Worship at St. Monica Catholic Community, Santa Monica, California
St. Monica Catholic Community aims to welcome and engage every member toward deeper participation in worship and parish life. In this edited conversation, Dale Sieverding explains how to keep members of a church community feeling connected even though they cannot commune together.
April 14, 2020
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5 min read
Shaping Worship During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Ministry of Presence at St. Anna Greek Orthodox Church, Roseville, California
Greek Orthodox Christian worship is consciously embodied. Christopher Flesoras, a Greek Orthodox priest, discusses pastoral discernment for serving the faithful when public health needs require social distancing, also known as physical distancing.
April 7, 2020
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6 min read
Church Polity and Online Sacraments in the Christian Reformed Church
Kathy Smith, Adjunct Professor of Church Polity at Calvin Theological Seminary, reflects on the administration of sacraments in the unique context of the COVID-19 pandemic crisis. She advises Christian Reformed churches to practice pastoral flexibility while still abiding by church polity, and provides a historical example from World War II, related by her predecessor Henry De Moor.
March 27, 2020
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4 min read
Praying at the Table, Praying at the Font
2020 Calvin Symposium on Worship | Workshop
March 19, 2020
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63 min video
A Sacramental Vision for Public Worship
2020 Calvin Symposium on Worship | Seminar
February 9, 2020
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123 min video
The Lord's Supper Liturgy
Lord's Supper liturgy that includes children asking questions.
October 8, 2019
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2 min read
Closing Communion Worship: The Ascension
Closing Communion Worship on Acts 1:1-11: The Ascension at the 2018 Worship Symposium.
June 19, 2019
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73 min video
Derek Elmi-Buursma on Communion and Context
Whether you call it Communion, Eucharist, the Lord’s Supper, or something else, you may wonder how to connect this sacrament with real life. Learn how one small urban congregation creates eucharistic liturgies for living in a broken world.
June 4, 2019
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9 min read
Trinitarian Sacramental Theology
2019 Calvin Symposium on Worship | Seminar
April 24, 2019
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121 min listen
How Music Deepens Participation in the Lord's Supper and Baptisms: Insights from Global Cultures
2019 Calvin Symposium on Worship | Seminar
April 12, 2019
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118 min listen
Serious Play: Insights from Augustine and Other Friends from the Early Church on Leading Worship and Administering Sacraments
Led by Lester Ruth, this workshop explored insights from Augustine and others in the early church that can break open playful, Scriptural imagination for leading in worship.
May 9, 2018
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59 min listen
Means of Grace: Forming New and Sustaining “Renewing” Congregations and Church Plants
In this seminar, veteran practitioners discussed how mission-shaped preaching and sacramental life function as means of grace in their communities. Audience engaged a discussion that sees evangelism and robust worship as beautifully integrated elements of every congregation’s ministry.
May 4, 2018
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115 min listen