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Prayer with the Staff of the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship

This service features scripture readings, hymns and prayers drawn from historic morning prayer liturgies, without music or other artistic elaboration. Complementing other Symposium services that are more complex, today we practice an intentionally simple form of common prayer, grateful to be united in prayer with people around the world on a day of historic, cultural and political importance here in the United States.

November 3, 2020 | 16 min video
Worship with the Global Church and Najla Kassab from Beirut, Lebanon

This service uses gifts of leaders from around the world and includes a sermon preached from Beirut, Lebanon. It is a service of the word based on Romans 8:18-25.

November 3, 2020 | 62 min video
Worship from Around the World on Romans 8

This service uses the gifts of worship leaders from around the world. It is a service of the word based on Romans 8 and includes the Calvin Symposium on Worship virtual choir.

November 3, 2020 | 40 min video

The Theology behind Early Christian Worship

A discussion of the relationship between worship and theology in the early church, and what this means for us today.

November 3, 2020 | 59 min video
3 Songs for Advent / 3 Cantos para Adviento

Carlos Colón demonstrates and talks about three songs for Advent, as part of the series "Songs from the hymnal / Cantos del himnario Santo, Santo, Santo / Holy, Holy, Holy.'"

November 2, 2020 | 2 min video
All Creation Groans: An Interview with Katharine Hayhoe

Can worship practices help heal our broken relationship with the more-than-human creation? How might lament, gratitude, the sacraments, and embodied actions reanimate our love for God’s world? Join this conversation with Katharine Hayhoe and Debra Rienstra

October 30, 2020 | 61 min video

Worship with Heliopolis Evangelical Church in Cairo, Egypt

This service takes place at Heliopolis Evangelical Church in Cairo, Egypt. It is a service of the word based on Romans 8:14-17.

October 29, 2020 | 87 min video
Worship with Tony Alonso and Friends Around the World

This service is led by Tony Alonso in Atlanta, Georgia and friends from Chicago, Illinois; Los Angeles, California; Omagh, UK; Maghera, UK; and Woodbury, Minnesota. It is an Evening Prayer for any time of the day.

October 29, 2020 | 29 min video