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Worship in the Heart Language: Dwight Kelly

Jamaican pastor, Dwight Kelly, reflects on how scripture songs can be written in the language of the worshiper's heart. Heartsongs use words that reflect the context and language of those who are singing them.

March 23, 2017 | 2 min video

Beauty, Silence, and Culture Care: An Interview with Makoto Fujimura

Theologian Neal Plantinga engages with artist and author Mako Fujimura on his vision for complementing recent work on creation care with what he has termed “culture care”—a redemptive approach to artistry and other forms of cultural engagement which seeks to contribute to “the healing of the nations.”

March 14, 2017 | 64 min video

Many Colors Paint the Rainbow: A Service of Scripture Proclamation, Choral, and Congregational Song

The Calvin College Alumni Choir collaborates with members of Coro Polifónico from the Seminario Internacional Teológico Bautista in Argentina and Artists Creating Together, a Grand Rapids-based choir that empowers individuals with disabilities to learn, grow, and celebrate through the arts to lead songs, hymns, and anthems which express our profound solidarity as members together of Christ’s body.

March 13, 2017 | 66 min video
Playing and Praying the Magnificat

This vesper service from the 2017 Calvin Symposium on Christian Worship focuses on the Magnificat.

March 10, 2017 | 69 min video

Silence and Beauty — Prayers for the Suffering Church

This vesper service from the 2017 Calvin Symposium on Christian Worship focuses on prayers for the suffering church.

March 10, 2017 | 59 min video
Singing Psalms: An Outpouring of Contemporary Song for Congregational Use

Remarkably, even since the publication of Psalms for All Seasons just a few years ago, over 30 new Psalm-based songwriting and recording projects have emerged from a variety of contemporary worship leaders across North America and beyond. While some of these settings are designed for solo voices, many are well-suited to congregational use, and are worthy heirs to the legacy of congregation-based Psalms re-established by Luther and Calvin.

March 10, 2017 | 63 min video
Bringing Hymns to Life on Guitar

We’ve heard many of the great old hymns played beautifully with organs, pianos, and choirs, but their journey into the world of guitar-led worship can be awkward. Old tunes are often abandoned or significantly altered in the name of modernization, but such revision is not always necessary.

March 8, 2017 | 60 min video