Upcoming Event
A Reformation Sunday worship service commemorating the 20th Anniversary of the Accra Confession
October 27, 2024, 5:00 PM
Psalm Singing and Bringing our Whole Emotional Lives into Worship
2020 Calvin Symposium on Worship | Workshop
February 28, 2020
Service of the Word: Living Under The God of All Grace
2020 Symposium on Worship | Closing Service
February 19, 2020
Billy Kluttz on Paperless Liturgy and Music
Sometimes not providing written or projected words and notes is the best way to make liturgy truly the work of the people. Paperless liturgy and paperless music can be great tools for including all ages and abilities in worship.
January 8, 2020
Christus Paradox 2019
A service of lessons and carols that invites people to approach Advent and Christmas with songs that sing about both forgiveness and justice, healing and correction, personal serenity and cultural reconciliation, human flourishing and the flourishing of all creation.
November 13, 2019
Mary L. Cohen on Prison Choirs That Churches Can Start
Churches can use this community/prison choir model to embody and invite people into restorative justice. It can help us develop our awareness of our common humanity and help people see God’s love within each of us.
August 12, 2019
Mary L. Cohen on Community Choirs in Prisons
Oakdale Community Choir in Coralville, Iowa, meets in the prison where half its members live. Church choirs and congregations can learn from the principles and practices that make this choir so life-giving. It focuses as much on relationships and potential as on music.
August 12, 2019
Many Streams of African American Congregational Song
2019 Cultivating Vital Worship | Session
July 26, 2019
Glenn Packiam on Songs that Bring Hope in Worship
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?
July 1, 2019
The Church's "Big" Choir
Integration of the choir into all aspects of worship and the choir's voice into the congregation's repertoire.
June 19, 2019
Andrea C. Hunter on Contemporary Songwriters and Scholars
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.
May 29, 2019
Andrea C. Hunter on Contemporary Worship Music’s Thou-to-I Shift
Her wide and deep experience with contemporary worship music gives Andrea C. Hunter keen insight on how it can form—or malform—Christians and congregations.
May 29, 2019
Workshop | The Multiple Streams of African-American Worship Practices: Insights for the Global Church
2019 Calvin Symposium on Worship | Workshop
May 28, 2019