Upcoming Event
A Reformation Sunday worship service commemorating the 20th Anniversary of the Accra Confession
October 27, 2024, 5:00 PM
Teacher-Scholar Panel: Scripture and Formation Themes
2019 Teacher-Scholar Vital Worship Grant recipients talk about their projects and the implications for those projects for gathered worship.
July 8, 2020
Teacher-Scholar Panel: Liturgical Resources and Practices
2019 Teacher-Scholar Vital Worship Grant recipients talk about their projects and the implications for those projects for gathered worship.
July 8, 2020
Teacher-Scholar Panel: Community and Social Justice Themes
2019 Teacher-Scholar Vital Worship Grant recipients talk about their projects and the implications for those projects for gathered worship.
July 8, 2020
Teacher-Scholar Panel: Historical and Contemporary Cultural Themes
2019 Teacher-Scholar Vital Worship Grant recipients talk about their projects and the implications for those projects for gathered worship.
July 8, 2020
Preparing Our Preaching Pedagogies for the Year 2030
In this paper, Jared Alcántara proposes a twenty-first century preaching pedagogy that he describes as “a turn toward improvisational teaching that is technologically innovative, intentionally collaborative, and strategically diverse.”
July 6, 2020
Service of Lament
A worship service from the Vital Worship Grants Event 2020 called a "Service of Lament."
June 24, 2020
Rest Under The Shelter of God's Arms
A worship service from the Vital Worship Grants Event 2020 called "Rest Under the Shelter of God's Arms."
June 24, 2020
Growing in God
An introduction to the Vital Worship Grants Event 2020 and a worship service called "Growing in God."
June 23, 2020
Continuing to Follow by Faith
A worship service from the Vital Worship Grants Event 2020 called "Continuing to Follow by Faith."
June 22, 2020
Deep Calls to Deep: Nurturing Preachers for the Work of Proclamation
Deep Calls to Deep is a program to strengthen preaching by using communities of peer groups to nurture pastors’ own spiritual, emotional, physical, and imaginative lives. In this paper, Ruthanna Hooke discusses the structure and themes of Deep Calls to Deep, a peer group learning program rooted in the conviction that preaching is soul-work.
June 17, 2020
Words to the Church from Another Time of Pandemic and Racism
The Rev. Francis Grimké’s thoughts from over a century ago are just as relevant during our current COVID-19 crisis and ongoing pleas for racial justice.
June 15, 2020
Preparing to Reopen Churches for Worship during COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic means churches planning to reopen will have to consider not just how to keep congregants safe, but also how to make them feel welcome. Consider these thoughtful recommendations from Yvette Lau, a pastoral musician, scholar, and teacher serving in Hong Kong.
June 15, 2020