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A crowd-sourced collection of Psalm interpretations from worshiping communities across the spectrum of Christian traditions that premiered at the 2021 Calvin Symposium on Worship.
In today’s diverse and interconnected world, understanding and addressing trauma through a culturally responsive lens is essential for creating inclusive and healing worship experiences.
This workshop will examine why corporate gathering and worship as the church require us to address potentially polarizing issues.
What is creativity, and why do we still need to talk about it? Join Sandra McCracken in a conversation on faith, imagination, and creativity.
Contemplar la creación de Dios, su gloria y majestad, nos lleva a la alabanza. Descubrir el lugar único y honroso de hombres y mujeres en la creación, como portadores de la imagen de Dios, nos conduce a darle gloria y a cumplir gozosos nuestra tarea como mayordomos de nuestro prójimo y de la creación.
Intra-dynamic preaching is a new mode of preaching that promises to immerse people in God’s living word. It uses the form and language of specific art types to design sermons that resonate in people’s heads, hearts, imaginations, and bodies. Sunggu A. Yang edited a practical handbook to help preachers encounter God in scripture and aesthetically recreate that experience for listeners.
The Psalms are a font of inspiration, encouragement, and instruction in the life of both public and private prayer.
You’re probably familiar with expository and narrative sermons. Homiletics professor and author Sunggu A. Yang offers another preaching method: intra-dynamic preaching. He explains how “infusing the sacred art of preaching with the vibrant energy of the arts” can lead worshipers to unexpected moments in which God encounters and changes them.
A conversation with Tony Alonso.
In a world generically “spiritual,” how does a preacher tend to the highest calling of the pastoral life: the tending of souls?
Annotated bibliography related to visual arts, theology and worship.
Explore the sometimes overlooked but vital roles women play in the parables of Jesus.
