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
Seeing Your Congregation with Expert Eyes: Culture, Race, Ethnicity
In an update from their Symposium session in 2007, five Calvin College social scientists describe what they've learned through in-depth analysis of congregational and worship life.
January 1, 2008
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53 min listen
Vertical Habits: Practical Wisdom for Teaching Worship
A panel of pastors and artists shared resources created by their congregations to teach "Vertical Habits," and described the fruit that developed in all areas of congregational life.
January 1, 2008
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57 min listen
Between Font and Table
In this workshop participants explored the relationship of Word and Sacrament in weekly preaching. Undervalued biblical and theological foundations of the Lord's Supper and baptism can add to the depth of one's sermons. Additionally, a sacramental approach to preaching can influence one's use and understanding of language and illustration.
January 1, 2008
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55 min listen
Seeing What Is Really There: Preaching and the Imagination
Frederick Buechner writes that people "as a rule see only what they expect to see and little more." The preacher's calling is see beyond what we expect to see and help congregations to do the same. This session discussed what the preacher can do to be faithful to this calling.
Beauty Will Save the World: Jonathan Edwards and Abraham Kuyper on Glory and Beauty
Should Christian worship explicitly call our attention to and direct us toward the world and its need, to social action? Or does such worship in fact turn us away from the triune God, the proper focus of our worship? This workshop will explore some ways Abraham Kuyper and Jonathan Edwards?both theologians of beauty and glory, and both very socially engaged?might point us in the right direction.
January 1, 2008
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55 min listen
America's Emerging Religious Landscape: An Interview with Richard Ostling
This wide-ranging question-and-answer session discussed religious and journalistic trends in the United States with the former religion writer for Time magazine and The Associated Press.
January 1, 2008
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60 min listen
