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2019 Calvin Symposium on Worship | Seminar
2019 Calvin Symposium on Worship | Workshop
2019 Calvin Symposium on Worship | Workshop
2019 Calvin Symposium on Worship | Workshop
2019 Calvin Symposium on Worship | Workshop
2019 Calvin Symposium on Worship | Seminar
Scholars and songwriters don’t normally talk together. But wonderful music for Christian worship can result when they share insights.
Most churches measure worship services against a certain ideal. They may think of worship like a concert, entertainment, dialogue, or something else. Even if they have not consciously chosen an operating metaphor for worship, their pattern greatly influences how individuals and congregations live out their faith.
Small churches sometimes feel weak or irrelevant. Intentional worship practices can help them discover their value before God and to the community.
Christian liturgical practices—confession, intercession, and preaching—contain wisdom that can bring compassion and consensus to public conversations around contentious moral issues.
A Dominican preaching colloquium addresses the challenge of preaching in contemporary Europe, where secularism, individualism, and a lack of cultural consensus have given rise to fear, division, and xenophobia.
This topic showcase highlights resources for including people with mental illnesses in worship. Congregations that renew their worship to become more inclusive discover that everyone benefits.
