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Jeff Barker on Combining Music and Public Scripture Reading

The COVID-19 pandemic pushed many churches to do online worship services, inspiring some liturgists to more creatively present Bible readings. Jeff Barker explains how to combine music with the lections or scripture passages.

September 9, 2020
CICW Global Psalm Gallery

A crowd-sourced collection of Psalm interpretations from worshiping communities across the spectrum of Christian traditions that premiered at the 2021 Calvin Symposium on Worship.

September 1, 2020
Psalm 133: Miren qué bueno / Oh, Look and Wonder

This setting of Psalm 133 was submitted by Carlos Colón and was written by Pablo Sosa. It focuses on the unity when everyone dwells in harmony.

September 1, 2020

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
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

Service of Lament

A worship service from the Vital Worship Grants Event 2020 called a "Service of Lament."

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