Upcoming Event
A Reformation Sunday worship service commemorating the 20th Anniversary of the Accra Confession
October 27, 2024, 5:00 PM
The Next Worship: Coming to the Table in a Multicultural World
The Table is a dominant image for Christ followers gathering together to worship him. It communicates friendship, commitment, and intimacy. The church is in need of leaders who will work towards seeing every tribe and tongue present, reconciled, and celebrating diversity at the Table of corporate worship.
February 23, 2015
Sacred Time, Holy Ground: Christian Worship and the Practices of Daily Life
Plenary session delivered by Dorothy Bass.
February 23, 2015
Liturgy, Anthropology, and Life Cycle
How do children worship best? How can worship help young people through the teen years? What practices of worship resonate most with adults and elderly people?
February 23, 2015
Water, Wheat, and Honey: A Recipe for Abundant Life
In this workshop we join the surprising journey of a group of emerging adults who volunteered to help fourth graders bake bread for their first Communion.
February 23, 2015
Hip Hop and Worship: Dealing with the Dilemma
Why is the church still wrestling with whether to engage or not engage Hip Hop Culture, particularly Hip Hop created and performed by Christian artists? Is there such a thing as Christian Hip Hop?
February 23, 2015
Exchanging the Worship Wars for World-changing Worship
Plennary Session delivered by Stanley Grenz.
February 23, 2015
Artistic Action and Unceasing Worship
Plenary session delivered by Harold Best.
February 23, 2015
What North American Churches Can Learn from the Church in Pakistan
Join this conversation between Eric Sarwar, a Presbyterian pastor from Pakistan, and Emily Brink, Worship Institute staff member, about how Pakistani worship practices can bless and inform the Christian church in North America.
February 23, 2015
Sticky Liturgies: Worship, Youth Ministry, and the Faith of America’s Teenagers
Research has shown that young people are abandoning the faith and leaving the church by the time they graduate from college. Might worship be part of the problem?
February 20, 2015
Worship in Calvin’s Geneva: Challenges and Opportunities Then and Now
Based on her forthcoming edited volume of primary sources on worship in Calvin’s Geneva, Karin Maag outlines what happened in Geneva as the city moved from Catholicism to Protestantism.
February 20, 2015
The Most Important Word in Preaching
Since the inception of the New Homiletic in the 1970s, preachers have been experimenting with inductive and narrative forms of preaching, thanks to the likes of Fred Craddock and Eugene Lowry. The idea is for sermons to engage people, create an experience of the biblical text.
February 20, 2015
Worship, Beauty, Justice, and Shalom
In a recent essay on "Beauty & Justice," Nicholas Wolterstorff writes "what unites love of understanding, worship, beauty, and justice is that these are all dimensions of shalom.
February 20, 2015