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This choral reading on Luke 15 with a sung refrain is adapted for 4 readers and 1 vocalist.
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.
Two ideas borrowed from visual sociology researchers—photo elicitation and photovoice—are helping Christians and congregations picture their lived experiences with God.
Roman Williams is a former pastor and church planter who now teaches sociology at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He specializes in using visual methods to research the sociology of religion.
Musician David M. Bailey is the music director at East End Fellowship, a multicultural Presbyterian congregation in the Church Hill neighborhood of Richmond, Virginia.
This is a choral reading of Psalm 27 for 4 readers adapted from the NRSV. It has a sung refrain.
This is a choral reading adapted for 5 voices.
This choral reading was written by Ed Baker and adapted by Joy-Elizabeth Lawrence.
This is a choral reading for 8 voices adapted from the NRSV.
This is a choral reading of 2 Corinthians 3:17-4:1, 5-15 adapted for 4 readers.
Academic study can be a deep resource used to strengthen faith and ministry. It gives us language and frameworks to respectfully discuss vexing worship issues.
Many preachers and Christians wonder: What place does “preaching” have in our image-shaped world? How do we bring the gospel word to people inundated by images?
