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You might think of scholars as looking back and contemporary Christian songwriters as looking forward. Songwriter Andrea C. Hunter says that scholars can help remind musicians and congregations of what to aim for in worship. Scholars also mine treasures from Christian traditions in many eras and places.
2019 Calvin Symposium on Worship | Workshop
God calls all Christians and congregations to the ministry of reconciliation. Sometimes this happens best through the worship arts.
Christian worship services can support or contradict the biblical vision of the church as one body with many parts. Here’s how corporate worship can help worshipers practice equity across lines of gender, race, ability, socioeconomics, and sexuality.
2019 Calvin Symposium on Worship | Workshop
2019 Calvin Symposium on Worship | Workshop
2019 Calvin Symposium on Worship | Seminar
Ethnomusicologist Jean Ngoya Kidula invites churches around the world to learn more about what she calls African church “musics” so they can glimpse how vast God is.
Scholar Jean Ngoya Kidula explains how ethnomusicology and ethnodoxology can widen churches’ musical palates. Accepting this opportunity will expand how congregations understand and praise God.
2019 Calvin Symposium on Worship | Workshop
2019 Calvin Symposium on Worship | Workshop
2019 Calvin Symposium on Worship | Workshop
