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"What’s a POGIL?” I asked, half-seriously, half-laughingly. My wife, Sheila, a chemistry instructor in a university was attending a conference for chemistry educators about a pedagogy growing in popularity in science classrooms around the United States. She explained that POGIL is a method for teaching both class content and important skills such as critical thinking and teamwork without using a lecture format.

Theologically serious song writers are acknowledging Father, Son, and Holy Spirit in contemporary songs that unite head and heart. A feature story exploring how contemporary music is maturing theologically.

This hymn festival service plan is built around the historic Apostles' Creed. The articles from the Creed are woven into the structure of the service, so the service becomes a profession of trust and expression of thanks.

An introduction to Lent and comprehensive guide to Lenten planning.

In response to the challenges of the pandemic, to use the Psalms to explore lament, grief, and resilience by engaging in liturgical arts that tell worshipers' stories, name challenges and losses, and cultivate healing and hope. 

To conduct a seminar to address the need for clergy, choirs and congregations to better understand the Psalms and how the Psalms deepen the prayer life of congregations and nurture their faith.

To collaboratively plan multicultural worship services that present newly written biblically inspired psalms and multimedia experiences related to those psalms.

To deepen the prayer life of the community and to grow in practices of praise, confession, lament, and thanksgiving through a year of formation around learning, praying, living and singing the psalms. 

To immerse the congregation in baptismal practices, “affirmation of baptism” practices and public and private psalm-saturated liturgical practices that help believers identify themselves as part of the baptized community as seen and practiced by generations of those saturated in the psalms by offering sermons, monthly baptismal services based on psalms and informed by rituals from the global and historic Christian church, and curriculum for family devotions, small group life and children’s minis

To offer three intergenerational “Psalm Plunges” that will provide space to look at the Psalms intentionally through lectures, worship and working together on songs, art projects, new lyrics for old hymns, liturgical elements, prayers, sentences, poems and other creativity inspired by the Psalms to help the congregation become more aware of how and why we worship as we do.