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What do contemporary Christians sing about when they sing about hope? Do they experience hope when they gather to sing in worship? If so, what sort of hope is it?

Tony Alonso notices gaps between what we sing in worship and how we live, including how we choose bilingual songs.

This syllabus follows a course on Christian congregational song, ranging from Old Testament psalms to contemporary praise-worship songs, from traditional Western hymnody to global worship songs, with some attention to cultural context and practica.

A chapel outline for Taize worship

After the first Catholic missionaries visited Japan in 1549, many people became Christians. But less than a century later, Japan expelled all missionaries and priests, banned Christianity, and cut off cultural contact with former trading partners.

To explore creative uses of media and the arts in order to engage youth and encourage collaboration between youth and adults in planning worship.

The vertical habits framework is easy to understand and talk about. It gives people the words to bring every part of themselves--even mental illness--to God in worship.

Doris Machin has sung before many different audiences in the United States, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean.

On Good Friday, as congregations meditate on the betrayal, suffering, and death of Jesus, some liturgies call the Church to identify with those who judged, persecuted, mocked, and killed our Lord. This is a sobering reality, and appropriate. But, like many stories in the Bible, there are multiple implications within this narrative.

Whether you want to go simple or elaborate with these photo ideas, you can follow three steps to get people talking about worship and faithful living.