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Christian worship services can support or contradict the biblical vision of the church as one body with many parts. Here’s how corporate worship can help worshipers practice equity across lines of gender, race, ability, socioeconomics, and sexuality.
God calls all Christians and congregations to the ministry of reconciliation. Sometimes this happens best through the worship arts.
2019 Calvin Symposium on Worship | Workshop
2019 Calvin Symposium on Worship | Seminar
2019 Calvin Symposium on Worship | Workshop
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.
This topic showcase highlights resources to help churches reclaim their role in including and befriending people who live with mental illnesses.
A presentation and discussion with Rev. Bill Gaventa, hosted by Barbara J. Newman
This video explores what it might look like to think that some disabilities might have a place in heaven.
John 17 records Jesus’ prayer for unity “so that the world may know that you have sent me and loved them.” It is a powerful witness when churches model unity within diversity. This witness requires intention and prayer.
In this workshop, we focused on what it looks like for a church to be committed to racial reconciliation for the long haul and offered five foundational practices for becoming a reconciling community.
Led by Erik W. Carter, this session focuses on ten dimensions of belonging and their salience to the inclusion of people with intellectual disability, autism, and other developmental disabilities in the full life of the church.
