From Pastor-centered to Participative Worship
Many churches are renewing their worship by changing some practices, yet remaining true to their worship principles. A feature story about a congregation exploring renewal through teaching and intergenerational involvement.
April 15, 2008
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11 min read
Postmodernism and Community Memory
Does your church want to be relevant to postmodern people? If so, how much should your worshiping community connect or disconnect with memory? A feature story exploring Postmodernism and Community Memory.
March 25, 2008
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12 min read
How to Plan Art Used in Church Worship
Is your church commissioning liturgical art, creating art for cross cultural worship, or designing a new building? A feature story on how to involve more people from your congregation in planning and creating art for worship.
February 29, 2008
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15 min read
In Praise of Small Churches
Learn how church dynamics shift as congregations change size. A feature story exploring small churches, like All Nations Christian Reformed Church in Halifax, Nova Scotia, that are making the most of their size.
February 15, 2008
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13 min read
Healing in Worship: Hospitality that welcomes everyone as they are
Though you might associate "heal" with "cure," healing in worship is broader. Whether through prayer, hospitality, communion, or laying on hands, it helps people become more whole.
February 1, 2008
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17 min read
Intergenerational Worship: Is It Reasonable? Is It Possible?
In this presentation, several contributors to the recent book The Church of All Ages: Generations Worshiping Together explored the issues involved, highlighted some of the findings, and stimulated further reflection.
January 1, 2008
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56 min listen
Imagine: What Has Christ Done for Us?
How do Christ's life, death, and resurrection save us? What poetic imagination do we use to grasp his saving work?
January 1, 2008
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58 min listen
Talking About Worship: How to Start and Sustain Faithful Conversations
This session will begin with a brief introduction to anthropological categories for talking about worship--liturgical time, space, environment, action, persons, music, language, etc. Participants will then engage in small group conversations about worship, using a process devised especially for facilitating conversations in congregations.
January 1, 2008
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51 min listen
How Race Works in Multiracial Churches
This workshop was given for those who want a deeper understanding of racial dynamics in today?s churches. Stories and examples from real congregations showed how race within churches is becoming complicated?and creatively reconstructed?through the post-1965 waves of immigration. Most important, we show how various good-intentioned priorities and programs work --and often don?t work-- in racially diverse churches.
January 1, 2008
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58 min listen
The Long Prayer: Offering Prayers in Public Worship
Whether pre-written, extemporaneous, or a combination, the prayer offered in worship on Sunday morning is probably the longest single prayer most people hear all week. As pastors and worship leaders, our public prayers reveal much about our habits of mind even as those prayers have a shaping influence on how the congregation prays all week. This workshop looked at the place of prayer in public worship and will offer practical suggestions for offering prayers that are theologically imaginative and pastorally sensitive.
January 1, 2008
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59 min listen
Advanced Vocals and Vocal Arranging
This session covered how to sing effectively as a worship team, and how to make the truths you are singing come alive.
January 1, 2008
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55 min listen
An Invitation to 'The Liturgy of the Hours'
From the age of the Apostles, to the Early Church Fathers, to the Middle Ages, to the present, we are invited to join that great cloud of witnesses who have worshiped God around the clock from hour to hour, from one time-zone to the next, in ceaseless prayer and praise. This session explored how to incorporate the rhythm of what some call 'The Liturgy of the Hours' into busy contemporary life.
January 1, 2008
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56 min listen
