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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

In the Lord I'll Be Ever Thankful

Virtual choir with members of the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship Staff. Recorded for the 2020 Vital Worship Grants Event.

June 24, 2020 | 1 min video
Growing in God

An introduction to the Vital Worship Grants Event 2020 and a worship service called "Growing in God."

June 23, 2020
3 Songs of Blessings / 3 Cantos de Bendición

Carlos Colón demonstrates and talks about three songs of blessing, as part of the series "Songs from the hymnal / Cantos del himnario Santo, Santo, Santo / Holy, Holy, Holy.'"

June 22, 2020 | 2 min video

Continuing to Follow by Faith

A worship service from the Vital Worship Grants Event 2020 called "Continuing to Follow by Faith."

June 22, 2020
Worship Behind Bars: How Liturgical Practices Can Change a Prison

2020 Calvin Symposium on Worship | Seminar

June 17, 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

Advocating for Justice that Restores: An Interview

2020 Calvin Symposium on Worship | Workshop

June 17, 2020
A Conversation with Uzee Brown of Morehouse College

Listen to this March 11, 2020, conversation between Uzee Brown, Jr., legendary composer and educator, and John D. Witvliet, held during a visit to Calvin University.

June 16, 2020 | 38 min video