1855 Knollcrest Circle SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49546-4402 USA
On the campus of Calvin University
© 2026 Calvin Institute of Christian Worship
Plenary session delivered by Harold Best.
This workshop features candid, wide-ranging discussions about the most important themes that worshiping communities may need to address in the next 10 years.
How can we, as musicians and lay and ordained ministers, cultivate our bodies as active instruments of God?
The Table is a dominant image for Christ followers gathering together to worship him. It communicates friendship, commitment, and intimacy. The church is in need of leaders who will work towards seeing every tribe and tongue present, reconciled, and celebrating diversity at the Table of corporate worship.
Plenary session delivered by Calvin Seerveld.
How do children worship best? How can worship help young people through the teen years? What practices of worship resonate most with adults and elderly people?
In this workshop we join the surprising journey of a group of emerging adults who volunteered to help fourth graders bake bread for their first Communion.
Why is the church still wrestling with whether to engage or not engage Hip Hop Culture, particularly Hip Hop created and performed by Christian artists? Is there such a thing as Christian Hip Hop?
Plennary Session delivered by Stanley Grenz.
Plenary session delivered by Dorothy Bass.
In a recent essay on "Beauty & Justice," Nicholas Wolterstorff writes "what unites love of understanding, worship, beauty, and justice is that these are all dimensions of shalom.
Research has shown that young people are abandoning the faith and leaving the church by the time they graduate from college. Might worship be part of the problem?
