Categories
Events
- 'Gilead' wins Grawemeyer Award in Religion
- 'I Am The Bread of Life': Setting is Everything
- 'Image' special issue on 'The Matter of Devotion'
- 'Keeping and Talking the Word' begins
- 'Modern folk music'
- AGO Service of Evensong
- Alison Adam: Song of the People
- Alphabet Soup
- Andras Visky's Disciples: Lingering at the Tomb
- Another presenter preview
- Arts and Worship events
- Blacksburg Worship Service set for Nov. 4
- Blog posts from Philosophy and Liturgy
- Blog reports from Transforming Culture conference in Austin
- Books & Culture report on CIVA conference
- Calling all Symposium bloggers!
- Calling all Symposium volunteers!
- Calvin Theological Seminary reflections on Jubilee 2006
- Christian Practices Workshops from the Alban Institute
- Conversation on Worship and Spiritual Formation
- Daily Updates from Symposium Begin Wednesday
- EPA '06: Immigration in light of hospitality
- Eugene Peterson: "Eat This Book"
- Event from grant recipient: Baptist Worship Identity Project and Symposium
- Festival of Faith and Writing '06: Luci Shaw
- Festival of Food and Faith
- Festival of FW: Don Miller
- GC Update 18
- GC Update 7
- GR Press on Alison Adam seminar
- GR Press on Symposium 2007
- Grants Colloquium '05 Report Index
- Grants Colloquium '07 Reports
- Grants Colloquium '07 Update 1
- Grants Colloquium '07 Update 2
- Grants Colloquium '07 Update 3
- Grants Colloquium '07 Update 4
- Grants Colloquium 2006 Update 1
- Grants Colloquium Update 1
- Grants Colloquium ‘08 Update 1
- Grants Colloquium ‘08 Update 2
- Grants Colloquium ‘08 Update 3
- Happy 25th to the Meeter Center for Calvin Studies
- High School Worship Training '05
- Philosophy and Liturgy - Update 10
- Philosophy and Liturgy - Update 11
- Philosophy and Liturgy - Update 3
- Philosophy and Liturgy - Update 4
- Philosophy and Liturgy - Update 5
- Philosophy and Liturgy - Update 6
- Philosophy and Liturgy - Update 7
- Philosophy and Liturgy - Update 8
- Philosophy and Liturgy Conference - Update 1
- Philosophy and Liturgy Conference - Update 2
- Post-Symposium '06 Reflections
- Prayer Booth at Symposium
- Prayer Booth Takes Shape
- Prayers for overseas Symposium guests denied visas
- Prayers leading up to Symposium
- Preaching Forgiveness, Acknowledging Lament
- Preparing to Pray at Symposium 2006
- Presenter preps for Symposium
- Presenter's blog on Symposium
- REC 12
- Recent History 1
- Reflections from the Psalm Festival
- Reflections on Retreat at New Life Church in Grand Junction
- Reflections on Worship Workshop in Toronto
- Reformed Worship website relaunch: full-text of 80 issues now available!
- Religion News Service press release on Symposium seminar
- Report from 'Global Consultation on Music and Missions'
- Report from 'Global Consultation on Music and Missions' 2
- Report from 'Googling Youth' Conference
- Report from 'Worship Matters' in Milwaukee
- Report from 'Writing as Christian Proclamation in Contemporary Contexts'
- Report from 'Writing as Christian Proclamation in Contemporary Contexts': Week 2
- Report from Louisville Consultation
- Report from National Worship Leader Conference
- Report from Singapore conference; reflections on children and worship
- Report from the Hymn Society Conference, San Antonio
- Report on "Singing God's Song Faithfully" conference
- Report on 'With a Shout!' Ascension conference
- Report on visit with John Bell of the Iona Community
- Reports from 'The Preacher's Oasis'
- Reports from Recent History of Worship seminar
- Richard Lischer on the Christian memoir
- Richard Ostling on religious freedom
- Roanoke Times coverage of Blacksburg Ecumenical Service
- September travels
- Symposium '06 3
- Symposium '06 4
- Symposium '06 5
- Symposium '06 6
- Symposium '06 7
- Symposium '07 2
- Symposium '07 3
- Symposium '07 4
- Symposium '07 5
- Symposium '07 Update 1: Check-in begins!
- Symposium '07 weblog reports
- Symposium '08 Update 1
- Symposium '08 Update 10
- Symposium '08 Update 11
- Symposium '08 Update 12
- Symposium '08 Update 13
- Symposium '08 Update 14
- Symposium '08 Update 16
- Symposium '08 Update 17
- Symposium '08 Update 18 - communal conviviality, literally!
- Symposium '08 Update 2
- Symposium '08 Update 3
- Symposium '08 Update 4 - Cold but bright weather for Day 1
- Symposium '08 Update 5
- Symposium '08 Update 6
- Symposium '08 Update 7 - We're Live!
- Symposium '08 Update 8 - other reports
- Symposium '08 Update 9 - 'One generation will call to the next'
- Symposium '08: all blog posts
- Symposium 06' Update 1
- Talking Web 2.0 at Lilly Consultation
- Teaching and reflecting on the theology of worship at Holy Cross Lutheran in Maine
- Teaching Hymnology '07
- Teaching Hymnology 1
- Teaching Hymnology 5
- Teaching Worship 10
- Teaching Worship 3
- Teaching Worship 4
- Teaching Worship 5
- Teaching Worship 7
- The Joy of Music in Community: Reflections on Gloriae Dei Cantores
- Theology of Reformed Worship 1
- Theology of Reformed Worship 2
- Theology of Reformed Worship 3
- Theology of Reformed Worship 4
- This is what 2,000 books looks like
- Thomas Lynch on Death and Dying
- Tim McCarthy on worship leadership in Christian higher education
- Twitter feed from the Fall Preaching conference
- Unity CRC conference report and audio
- Upcoming Event: N.T. Wright on the Sacraments
- Upcoming Event: Program honoring composer Raymond Haan
- Upcoming events at The Liturgical Institute
- Volunteer at Symposium 2008!
- Youth conversation at Symposium '07
Grants
- 17 Questions For Worship Renewal
- Blacksburg Worship Service set for Nov. 4
- Chapel Hill News article on grant recipient
- Chapel Hill News Coverage of Grant Recipient
- Christianity Today review of Sojourn album
- Courier-Post article on Bridge of Peace
- Coverage of Sardis Baptist grant at CBFNC
- Edmonton Chinese Baptist Church, Edmonton, AB
- ELCA News Release on Consultation on Multicultural Congregations
- Epiphany at Bridge of Peace in Camden
- Event from grant recipient: Baptist Worship Identity Project and Symposium
- Fellowship Christian Reformed Church, Edmonton, AB
- First Presbyterian Church of Birmingham, Birmingham, MI
- First United Methodist Featured in the Santa Monica Daily Press
- GC '06 Update 2
- GC '06 Update 3
- GC '06 Update 4
- GC '06 Update 5
- GC '06 Update 6
- GC '06 Update 7
- GC Update 10
- GC Update 11
- GC Update 12
- GC Update 13
- GC Update 14
- GC Update 15
- GC Update 16
- GC Update 17
- GC Update 18
- GC Update 4
- GC Update 5
- GC Update 6
- GC Update 7
- GC Update 8
- GC Update 9
- Gerardo Marti Speaks to Grant Participants
- Grant recipient featured in VMC newsletter
- Grant recipient reaches out to robbers
- Grants '06 'listening tour'
- Grants Colloquium '05 Report Index
- Grants Colloquium '06 Reports
- Grants Colloquium '07 Reports
- Grants Colloquium '07 Update 1
- Grants Colloquium '07 Update 2
- Grants Colloquium '07 Update 3
- Grants Colloquium '07 Update 4
- Grants Colloquium 2005 This Week
- Grants Colloquium 2006 Update 1
- Grants Colloquium Update 1
- Grants Colloquium ‘08 Update 1
- Grants Colloquium ‘08 Update 2
- Grants Colloquium ‘08 Update 3
- Grants Update 2
- Grants Update 3
- Happy 25th to the Meeter Center for Calvin Studies
- Hastings College article on worship grant
- Hillside Community Church, Calgary, AB
- Jimmie Abbington on NBC News
- News coverage of grant recipients Zion Lutheran and Third CRC
- Nicholas Wolterstorff on space and worship at Second CRC
- Pictures from Blacksburg
- Prayers for Blacksburg
- Prayers leading up to Symposium
- Reflections on Worship Renewal Grants Advisory Board '06
- Report from 'Global Consultation on Music and Missions' 2
- Report from a visit with United Methodist youth planning worship
- Report from El Buen Vecino Presbyterian
- Report from Grants tour
- Report from Grants tour '06 2
- Report From Grants Tour '07 - Visits in Washington State and British Columbia
- Report from Grants tour ‘06 3: Phone conversation with Betty Grit
- Report from Grants tour ‘06 4
- Report from Legacy Christian School: Vertical Habits
- Report from National Ministry Summit
- Report from visits with grant recipients: Worship Renewal at Work
- Report from Workshop on Leading Worship Renewal
- Report on visit with John Bell of the Iona Community
- Report on worship at City Hope Ministries
- Reports and pictures from Grants tour '06
- Roanoke Times coverage of Blacksburg Ecumenical Service
- Roanoke Times coverage of grant recipient
- Sardis Baptist blog
- September Visit to Grant Recipients
- Teaching and reflecting on the theology of worship at Holy Cross Lutheran in Maine
- The King’s University College, Edmonton, AB
- The River, Edmonton, AB
- Toledo Blade coverage of grant recipient
- Unity CRC conference report and audio
- Visit to First Union Church in Cedarville, Michigan
- Workshop and Worship at Open Table of Christ United Methodist Church in Providence, R.I.
- Worship at African Community Fellowship Church
- Worship at New Community Church
- Worship Renewal Grants '05
- Worship Renewal: Continuing the Discussion, and the Definition
- Young People at Princeton CRC Report on Vertical Habits
Interdisciplinary Application
- The Eschatology of a Preposition in "Now Thank We All Our God"
- "Awake, My Soul": New Documentary on Sacred Harp
- "God Has Gone Up With Shouts of Joy" - song for Christ the King week
- "It's your existence I love you for"
- "Prayer of the Trinity" by N.T. Wright
- "Renaissance" Worship
- "So Much" Merit
- "The glory of God and the recreation of the human spirit"
- "The work of the Spirit compels us to be involved in every area of life"
- "We Gather Together" History in WSJ
- 'At Play in the House of the Lord' at CT Library
- 'Biblical' sayings not actually in the Bible
- 'Breadlike Boards' and the Teaching of Worship
- 'brood of vipers': insights on an idiom
- 'Christ of the Earthquakes' by Alberto Torres
- 'Christ Plays' 104-129
- 'Christ Plays' 133-146
- 'Christ Plays' 147-181
- 'Christ Plays' 181-199
- 'Christ Plays' 200-212
- 'Christ Plays' 200-212
- 'Christ Plays' 26-39
- 'Christ Plays' 39-47
- 'Christ Plays' 51-61
- 'Christ Plays' 61-85: Creation as Cosmic and Personal
- 'Christ Plays' 85-103
- 'Christ Plays' p. 11-26
- 'Christ Plays' pp. 1-9
- 'ChurchBeat' blog
- 'Come and See'
- 'Dinner With An Imperfect Community'?
- 'Ekklesia,' 'Hypocrites,' and other tricky translations from New Testament Greek
- 'Gilead' wins Grawemeyer Award in Religion
- 'Grateful to the Dead': A Historical Faith
- 'Image' special issue on 'The Matter of Devotion'
- 'Jesus, Son of God and Son of David'
- 'Keeping and Talking the Word' begins
- 'Makarios' - 'blessed', not 'happy'!
- 'Modern folk music'
- 'O God, lift up your hand; do not forget the oppressed'
- 'One God, Many Voices: The Changing Sound of Worship': Special issue of 'Theology News & Notes'
- 'Our Transnational Anthem' (Christian Vision Project)
- 'Philosophy in the Service of Theology'
- 'Receiving the Kingdom': Sermon at River Terrace
- 'Religious Dimensions of Consumer Culture'
- 'Seeing the Savior' exhibit at John Knox Presbyterian in Seattle
- 'Soul Searching' documentary
- 'The Spirit's gifts are here to stay'
- 'Thomas' by Rex Hausmann
- 'to get Worshipes'
- 'Why pastors should blog'
- 'Worship Composition' in Perspectives
- 'Worship in the Fourth Gospel' by Jerome Neyrey
- 'Worship Matters': The Presence of God
- 1 and 2 Chronicles as 'reforming history'
- 17th-Century Service at Jamestown
- 60 Minutes on the persecution of Christians in Iraq
- A crisp morning at Kings College Chapel
- A December Epiphany
- A picture of connections in the biblical narrative
- A Visit to Caldwell Chapel in Louisville
- A Visit with Keith and Kristyn Getty
- AAR-SBL audio from Andy Rowell
- Acerno, Italy, 1943
- Advice on Choosing a Research Topic for Doctoral Work in New Testament
- Agrammatoi and Evangelizomai
- Alban Institute website redesign
- Alban Weekly on "A Praying Congregation"
- Alban Weekly on "Living Your Story"
- Alban Weekly on "Twenty Observations about Troubled Congregations"
- Alban Weekly on 'A Ministry of All'
- Alban Weekly on 'A New Story for the Church in the 21st Century'
- Alban Weekly on 'Becoming God's Church'
- Alban Weekly on 'Congregational Web Sites: Our New Front Door'
- Alban Weekly on 'Constructing Your Congregation's Story'
- Alban Weekly on 'Hospitality to the Stranger'
- Alban Weekly on 'Leadership in a Non-Staff-Dependent Congregation'
- Alban Weekly on 'Ministering to the Missing Generation'
- Alban Weekly on 'Pastor as Teacher, Congregation as Learning Community'
- Alban Weekly on Congregational Identity
- Alban Weekly on Grace and Graciousness
- Alban Weekly on Intentionality, Practice, and Vitality
- Alban Weekly on Praying Congregations
- Alban Weekly on Promoting Healthy Congregations
- Alban Weekly on The Role of Musicians in Multicultural Worship
- Alban Weekly on the Transition into Ministry initiative
- Andras Visky's Disciples: Lingering at the Tomb
- Anthony Carter on Moses
- APCE Advocate on Creative Worship
- Apprenticeship and mentorship in youth ministry
- Arts and Worship events
- August Banner articles on pastoral ministry
- Augustine's baptistry
- B&C on 'Sundays in America'
- B&C on Charismatic Christianity in South America
- Baltimore Basilica Restoration
- Baltimore Sun on 'Amazing Grace'
- Baptism: "a once and future thing"
- Barna data: Blest be the ties that bind?
- Basil on the Holy Spirit
- BCL materials on communion
- BCL on ministering to those with disabilities
- Bees' honey as a metaphor in the Old Testament
- Benedict XVI on Worship
- Best books of 2006
- Beware Journalistic Flattery of the Church
- Biblical Languages page
- Birthday of the Elizabethan Prayer Book (BCP)
- Blog posts from Philosophy and Liturgy
- Blog reports from Transforming Culture conference in Austin
- Blogging Toward Sunday
- Bono on worship
- Book Blogging: Recalling the Hope of Glory - Part 1
- Book Blogging: Recalling the Hope of Glory - Part 2
- Book Blogging: Recalling the Hope of Glory - Part 3
- Book Blogging: Who's Afraid of Postmodernism? - Chapter 1
- Book Blogging: Who's Afraid of Postmodernism? - Chapter 2
- Book Blogging: Who's Afraid of Postmodernism? - Chapter 3
- Book on Liturgy and Life in the Early Church
- Book on Sacraments gets CT Award
- Books & Culture on new books on prayer
- Books & Culture report on CIVA conference
- Books&Culture on 'Nineteenth-Century Women Writing on Women in Genesis'
- Bookshelf: 'Augustine and Postmodernism'
- Bookshelf: 'Sacred Space in Early Modern Europe' and 'Welcoming Children'
- Bookshelf: 'The 'Empty' Church Revisited'
- Bookshelf: New Testament Words
- BuildingChurchLeaders on 'Four Ways to Teach the Bible Creatively'
- Bunyan and Wesley e-books
- ByFaith magazine on missionaries and the weaking U.S. dollar
- C.S. Lewis on Christmas: "what is uncreated, eternal, came into nature"
- Calvin and Anxiety
- Calvin Seerveld: Cultural Guidelines for Artists
- Calvin Theological Seminary reflections on Jubilee 2006
- Catapult on 'In Sickness'
- Catapult on Faith and Music: "Tuning In"
- CCEL Times - new issue
- CCEL Times - October issue
- CCEL web redesign
- Center for Social Research blog
- CH Newsletter on Augustine's legacy
- CH on 'What Luther Said'
- CH on Early Church voices on the Eucharist
- CH on the Nicene Creed
- Christian Century blog
- Christian History on "Happy Advent?"
- Christian History on Andrew Walls
- Christian History on its relaunched website
- Christian History on martyrdom in the early church
- Christian History on Spirituals
- Christian Practices Workshops from the Alban Institute
- Christian Reformed Church website redesign
- Christian Smith on "emerging adulthood"
- Christianity in the Middle East
- Christianity Today on 'Seeker Unfriendly' Worship
- Christina Saj's 'Six Days of Creation' at New Brunswick Theological Seminary
- Christmas in July? (Advent in August?)
- Church Has Sprung
- CICW featured on CNN
- CICW quoted in NY Times piece on megachurches closing for Christmas
- CIRT review of 'Jesus of Africa'
- Classic Reflections on Holy Week
- Classic Reflections on Lent and Easter from the CCEL
- Colossians 1 reflection from Interpretation
- Comment on Recovering the Lost Logic of the Church
- Comment's Report on International Arts Movement Encounter
- Commentaries on Philippians
- Commentaries on the Psalms
- Confession in the Bible translation wars
- Cornerstone Weblog Devotions on Vertical Habits
- Corwin Smidt on political cues during worship
- CRC Disability Concerns office and issues related to worship and disabilities
- CT on Dallas Willard
- CTS Forum Spring '06: 'Always Reforming'
- Culture-makers and Jacob's Well
- David Koyzis on the Victoria Psalter
- Debunking 'Da Vinci'
- Dorothy Bass on Practicing Our Faith
- ELCA News Release on Consultation on Multicultural Congregations
- EPA '06: 'Web 2.0' and its implications for ministry and learning in community
- EPA '06: Immigration in light of hospitality
- Eric Jacobsen's reading list on cities
- Eugene Peterson: "Eat This Book"
- FACTS report on congregational growth
- Festival of Food and Faith
- Festival of FW: Don Miller
- Friendship Ministires on 'What can I do to make large-group prayer more meaningful?'
- Fulton Street Revival anniversary conference - Update 2
- GC '06 Update 5
- Gender gap in U.S. church attendance
- George Thompson, Jr. on the "inner-directed conventional church"
- George Weigel on 'Revolutionary Papacies"
- Gerardo Marti on 'fluid ethnicity' in JSSR
- GR Press coverage of congregations study
- GR Press on Protestant use of the Thomas Mass
- GR Press on the liturgical year
- Grants Colloquium '07 Update 2
- Grants Colloquium '07 Update 4
- Grape Juice Instead of Wine
- Gregory of Nyssa on the Reciprocity of the Virtues
- Hagioscope
- Happy 25th to the Meeter Center for Calvin Studies
- Hartford Institute for Religion Research website redesign
- Hearts & Minds BookNotes on new books
- Hearts&Minds Booknotes on books on congregational conflict; books of the year
- Hope Liturgical Works on liturgical art and space
- Horses of a Different Color
- How not to confess
- Hymnal Consultation
- Image Journal's Artist of the Month: Jeffrey Overstreet
- Image journal's website redesign
- Image on 'Sacred and Profane' in Southern Art
- Image on Peter LaGrand
- Image update: 'The Reverend'
- Imaginative Reading 2: The Grapes of Wrath
- Imaginative Reading 3: Silence
- Imaginative Reading 4: Children's Literature
- Imaginative Reading 5: A River Runs Through It
- Imaginative Reading 6: Norris and Lamott
- Imaginative Reading 7: Poetry
- Imaginative Reading for Creative Preaching Begins
- InSites e-newsletter: latest edition
- InSites newsletter: latest edition
- Intro to Christian Worship 2: Collaborative Worship Planning
- Intro to Christian Worship 3: Covenental Worship
- Intro to Christian Worship: The Use of 'Worship' in Scripture
- ISOT on Covenant-God, not Contract-God
- JECS on Ancient Church Order Literature
- Jeremiah, vocation, and hope, in Interpretation
- Jesus the Builder
- Joseph the Mystery
- JSNT on the Head-Waiter and Bridegroom in John 2
- JSOT on translating 'yahweh' with 'kyrios'
- JTS latest issue now online
- Justin Martyr on early Christian worship
- Kidneys, Dice, and Other Biblical Language Tidbits
- Larry Sibley on Robert Webber
- Lauren Winner on Clergy Spouses as Ministry Partners
- Leading worship on an Air Force base
- Listening for wordplay in Hebrew
- Listening to Sermons in the 17th Century
- Living Water and Baptism
- Maps of U.S. Religious Membership
- Mark Noll on 'song, culture, divine bounty, and issues of harmonization'
- Mark Noll on Christianity in Canada ...
- Martin Luther: "No mightier comfort"
- Martin Marty on blogging and denominational politics
- Martin Marty's Reading List on Church and State
- Marty: "Keep the lights on, the books open..."
- Meditation on Psalm 22: Devoured
- Meditation: 'Making All Things New'?
- Milton Quarterly review of 'Psalm Culture and Early Modern English Literature'
- Ministering to returning soldiers: an urgent but underappreciated need
- Model for worship and culture
- More from Disability Concerns on Worshipers with Disabilities
- More on 'worship' and 'latreuo'
- More on multimedia in worship from Alban Weekly
- MRC web redesign
- Museum of Biblical Art Opens in New York
- Museum of Reformation Opens in Geneva
- N.T. Wright on "The Most Dangerous Baby"
- N.T. Wright on Heaven: 'Surprised By Hope'
- Names of God in the Old Testament from Ancient Hebrew Research Center
- New at CEP
- New blog by young clergy women
- New chapter posted at 'Story and Worship' blog
- New International Commentary digital references
- New Weblog: Bob Kauflin's 'Worship Matters'
- New Year's Resolutions for Spiritual Formation...
- Nicholas Wolterstorff on space and worship at Second CRC
- Not Trying to Understand the Trinity
- NTS on Awe in Revelation 4&5
- NTS on Paul, redemption, creation, and the 'cosmic covenant'
- NY Times on Sudanese worshipers in the U.S.
- Oldest Christian Church found in Jordan?
- Philip Jenkins excerpt on the Bible in the Global South
- Philosophy and Liturgy - Update 10
- Philosophy and Liturgy - Update 11
- Philosophy and Liturgy - Update 3
- Philosophy and Liturgy - Update 4
- Philosophy and Liturgy - Update 5
- Philosophy and Liturgy - Update 6
- Philosophy and Liturgy - Update 7
- Philosophy and Liturgy - Update 8
- Philosophy and Liturgy Conference - Update 1
- Philosophy and Liturgy Conference - Update 2
- Pictures from Blacksburg
- Planning Ahead: January and February 2008
- Podcasting, as begun in 1825
- Pope John Paul II and Protestants
- Prayer for Those Who Proclaim
- Praying for Christians in Iraq
- Preaching Forgiveness, Acknowledging Lament
- Preparing to Pray 1/13
- Preparing to Pray 1/6
- Preparing to Pray 10/21/05
- Preparing to Pray 10/26/05
- Preparing to Pray 10/5/05
- Preparing to Pray 11/11/05
- Preparing to Pray 11/2/05
- Preparing to Pray 12/2
- Preparing to Pray 12/9
- Preparing to Pray 9/23/05
- Preparing to Pray 9/29/05
- Preparing to Pray at Symposium 2006
- Presenter's blog on Symposium
- Productivity vs. Fruitfulness
- R&E Newsweekly on National Gallery of Art exhibit on diptychs
- Reading on Pastoral Care and Human Suffering
- Reading the Bible in the Global South
- Recent History 1
- Recent History 2
- Recent History 3
- Recent History 4
- Recent History 5
- Recent History 6
- Recent History 7
- Recent History 8
- Recent History 9
- Reflections on "counsel" and "tree" in Psalm 1
- Reflections on Retreat at New Life Church in Grand Junction
- Reflections on the Second Sunday of Lent 2006
- Reflections on Worship and the Christian Year
- Regenerating re:generation quarterly
- Religion and Civic Responsibility
- Remembering Robert Webber
- Remembering Worship at Chicago's Pilgrim Baptist
- Report from 'Global Consultation on Music and Missions'
- Report from 'Global Consultation on Music and Missions' 2
- Report from 'Googling Youth' Conference
- Report from 'Writing as Christian Proclamation in Contemporary Contexts'
- Report from 'Writing as Christian Proclamation in Contemporary Contexts': Week 2
- Report from a Symposium based on Wolterstorff book on Justice
- Report from conference on the 150th Anniversary of the Fulton Street Revival in New York City
- Report from CRC sesquicentennial planning committee at Trinity College
- Report from Legacy Christian School: Vertical Habits
- Report from Louisville Consultation
- Report from National Ministry Summit
- Report from visits with grant recipients: Worship Renewal at Work
- Report from Workshop on Leading Worship Renewal
- Report on "Singing God's Song Faithfully" conference
- Report on 'With a Shout!' Ascension conference
- Report on Childrens Spirituality Conference 2006
- Reports from 'The Preacher's Oasis'
- Reports from Recent History of Worship seminar
- Resources for Fonts for the Biblical Languages
- Resources for Worship and Spiritual Formation
- Richard Lischer on the Christian memoir
- Richard Ostling on religious freedom
- Robertson and Falwell: Spokespeople without a people?
- Seerveld on Thanksgiving
- Serving Two Masters? Christian Smith on American giving
- Site seen
- Site seen: 'Shall We Gather At The River' from the Florida Memory Folklife Collection
- Site seen: MOBIA
- Site seen: Public domain sermon archive based on the lectionary
- SJOT on the Messiah Figure of the Old Testament
- Slate blogs the Bible
- Slate on Psalm 119: Laws to Love
- Smithsonian magazine on Rembrandt at 400
- Soundness
- Spurgeon on keeping Christmas year round
- Story and Worship blog from Jeff Barker
- Strauss and Seerveld on Reading the Bible
- Stringfellow on 'the vocation of the baptized person'
- Substantive contemporary worship music: "an enormously powerful witness to the gospel"
- Symposium '06 3
- Symposium '06 4
- Symposium '08 Update 14
- Symposium '08 Update 3
- Symposium 06' Update 1
- Teaching Hymnology '07
- Teaching Hymnology 1
- Teaching Hymnology 5
- Teaching Worship 10
- Teaching Worship 8
- Teaching Worship Seminar Begins
- Terry Mattingly on food and faith
- The "ability to see what's really been there all the time"
- The "holy and faithful" in Colossians and Ephesians
- The Art of Forgiveness: Images of the Prodigal Son - new MOBIA exhibit
- The Banner on Pentecost and Hospitality
- The decline of Religion sections in newspapers
- The Gospel According to Bach
- The hope of Ecclesiastes
- The Interstate: Road away from worship
- The living breath of the pipes
- The meaning of "Good Spirit" in Luke, in the context of the OT
- The Need for Creeds
- The New Yorker on Bible marketing
- The Old Hymns - from 1891
- The Psalms on enemies
- The Puritans: 'Physicians of the soul'
- The Real St. Patrick
- The Sacramental Imagination
- The Shape of Faith: The Sign of the Cross
- The St. Joseph of Arimathea Pallbearer Society
- Theolog on 'Creative Dislocation'
- Theology and the Church: Firm Foundations
- Theology of Reformed Worship 1
- Theology of Reformed Worship 2
- Theology of Reformed Worship 4
- Theology of Star Wars
- This Week in Worship History: June 12-18
- This Week in Worship History: June 19-25
- This Week in Worship History: June 5-11
- Thomas Lynch on Death and Dying
- Thoughts on Liturgy Response
- Tim McCarthy on worship leadership in Christian higher education
- Time magazine on a paradigm shift in youth ministry
- Titles of Psalms 42-89
- Translating "my familiar friend" in Psalm 41
- TynCat
- Unenlightened Enlightenment assumptions in 'The Politics of God'
- Upcoming Event: N.T. Wright on the Sacraments
- Upcoming events at The Liturgical Institute
- Using Google Reader and RSS to Keep Current with Journal Literature
- Washington Post watchdog: "as long as religion [is] reported thoroughly and sensitively..."
- WCC on Creative Commons licensing for churches: 'Love to Share'
- Wesley on Christian birth and growth
- What is Worship?
- What Worship Leaders Could Learn from Bono
- Why We Have Denominations
- William Willimon: 'Christ Means Change'
- Words Of Wisdom About Worship: God the Subject
- Workshop and Worship at Open Table of Christ United Methodist Church in Providence, R.I.
- Worship Planning Idea: Celebrating three Old Testament Spring festivals
- Worship Planning Idea: Knitting worship into the fabric of congregational life
- Worship Planning Idea: Knowing The Holy Spirit Through the Old Testament
- Worship: Ascribing the Ultimate Value
- WOWAW 10: Triune Worship: relational rather than institutional
- WOWAW 14: Music, Worship, and Mystery
- WOWAW 15: 'Worship extends beyond the bounds of the assembly'
- WOWAW 16: Worship at the Hub
- WOWAW 17: "We worship in dialogue with God and with each other"
- WOWAW 18: Worship as 'Vital Instinct'
- WOWAW 20: Revelation and Response
- WOWAW 21: 'The Bible [is] a liturgical book'
- WOWAW 22: "A vocabulary ... that is sufficiently personal and adequately wide-ranging"
- WOWAW 23: "To cultivate our awareness of God’s actions—past, present, and future"
- WOWAW 24: "You'd think we might feel a little shocked ..."
- WOWAW 25: "A first-hand experience of God's hand on your shoulder"
- WOWAW 26: 'They care that when they worship, God is present'
- WOWAW 27: 'A language for joy'
- WOWAW 28: 'Worship is the main work of God's people'
- WOWAW 29: 'The Eucharist ... puts us in our place'
- WOWAW 31: "Worship relates dynamically to culture in at least four ways"
- WOWAW 34: A 'baptismal spirituality' for Lent
- WOWAW 4
- WOWAW 5
- WOWAW 8
- WOWAW 9: 'Worship Will Always Have An Impact'
- WTS website redesign
- Young People at Princeton CRC Report on Vertical Habits
Language
- The Eschatology of a Preposition in "Now Thank We All Our God"
- "Renaissance" Worship
- 'brood of vipers': insights on an idiom
- 'Christ Plays' 26-39
- 'Christ Plays' 85-103
- 'Ekklesia,' 'Hypocrites,' and other tricky translations from New Testament Greek
- 'Makarios' - 'blessed', not 'happy'!
- 'Our Transnational Anthem' (Christian Vision Project)
- 'to get Worshipes'
- Agrammatoi and Evangelizomai
- Al Hsu on worship at Beijing International Christian Fellowship
- Augustine: Simply Seeking Understanding
- Bees' honey as a metaphor in the Old Testament
- Biblical Languages page
- Bookshelf: New Testament Words
- Hagioscope
- Hebrew table prayers
- Horses of a Different Color
- JSOT on translating 'yahweh' with 'kyrios'
- Kidneys, Dice, and Other Biblical Language Tidbits
- Listening for wordplay in Hebrew
- Meditation on Philippians 1:1: Slaves
- Meditation on Psalm 18: Gored
- Meditation on Psalm 20: Anointed
- Meditation on Psalm 22: Devoured
- Meditation on Psalm 9: whole-hearted
- Names of God in the Old Testament from Ancient Hebrew Research Center
- Prayer for Those Who Proclaim
- Report from 'Writing as Christian Proclamation in Contemporary Contexts'
- Report from 'Writing as Christian Proclamation in Contemporary Contexts': Week 2
- Resources for Fonts for the Biblical Languages
- Story and Worship blog from Jeff Barker
- StudyLight on 'epistrepho'
- The "holy and faithful" in Colossians and Ephesians
- The meaning of "Good Spirit" in Luke, in the context of the OT
- Thomas Lynch on Death and Dying
- Too early to think about preaching in the summer?
- Translating "my familiar friend" in Psalm 41
- WOWAW 4
Leadership
- "Prayer of the Trinity" by N.T. Wright
- 'Breadlike Boards' and the Teaching of Worship
- 'Dinner With An Imperfect Community'?
- 'Life and Religion Are One'
- 'Soul Searching' documentary
- 'Why pastors should blog'
- 60 Minutes on the persecution of Christians in Iraq
- A December Epiphany
- A More Joyful Communion
- Alban Institute website redesign
- Alban Weekly on 'Vital Congregations as Intentional Communities of Practice'
- Alban Weekly on "A Praying Congregation"
- Alban Weekly on "Expanding the Leadership Circle"
- Alban Weekly on "Key Dimensions of Healthy Partnerships"
- Alban Weekly on "Living Your Story"
- Alban Weekly on "Practicing Congregations"
- Alban Weekly on "Twenty Observations about Troubled Congregations"
- Alban Weekly on 'A Ministry of All'
- Alban Weekly on 'A New Story for the Church in the 21st Century'
- Alban Weekly on 'Becoming God's Church'
- Alban Weekly on 'Congregational Web Sites: Our New Front Door'
- Alban Weekly on 'Constructing Your Congregation's Story'
- Alban Weekly on 'Designing a Staff Team for Ministry'
- Alban Weekly on 'Hospitality to the Stranger'
- Alban Weekly on 'Leadership in a Non-Staff-Dependent Congregation'
- Alban Weekly on 'Ministering to the Missing Generation'
- Alban Weekly on 'Pastor as Teacher, Congregation as Learning Community'
- Alban Weekly on 'Speaking the Truth in Love'
- Alban Weekly on 'the post-construction blues'
- Alban Weekly on Congregational Identity
- Alban Weekly on Grace and Graciousness
- Alban Weekly on humble leadership
- Alban Weekly on Intentionality, Practice, and Vitality
- Alban Weekly on Promoting Healthy Congregations
- Alban Weekly on the problem of trying to 'meet needs'
- Alban Weekly on The Role of Musicians in Multicultural Worship
- Alban Weekly on the Transition into Ministry initiative
- Alison Adam: Song of the People
- Alleluia! Christ is risen
- Ancient Prayer of Confession
- Anglican News Service on rebuilding Nunavut cathedral
- Anthony Carter on Moses
- APCE Advocate on Creative Worship
- Apprenticeship and mentorship in youth ministry
- August Banner articles on pastoral ministry
- Baptism: "a once and future thing"
- Barna data: Blest be the ties that bind?
- Basil on the Holy Spirit
- BCL materials on communion
- BCL on ministering to those with disabilities
- Benediction: 'The grace of God, deeper than our imagination..."
- Blogging Toward Sunday
- Book on Sacraments gets CT Award
- Boston Globe on high-tech worship
- Brother Roger, Founder of Taize Community, Murdered at Age 90
- BuildingChurchLeaders on 'Four Ways to Teach the Bible Creatively'
- BuildingChurchLeaders on preaching in a series
- Calvin Theological Seminary reflections on Jubilee 2006
- CH on Early Church voices on the Eucharist
- Charge for commissioning church school teachers
- Christian Churches Together Launch Postponed
- Christian Practices Workshops from the Alban Institute
- Christian Smith on "emerging adulthood"
- Christianity Today on 'Seeker Unfriendly' Worship
- Christmas in July? (Advent in August?)
- CICW quoted in NY Times piece on megachurches closing for Christmas
- Closing Prayer for Eastertide
- Comment on Recovering the Lost Logic of the Church
- Commentaries on Philippians
- Congregational Stress
- Conversations About Leadership and the Changing Church
- Corwin Smidt on political cues during worship
- Debunking 'Da Vinci'
- Dorm worship workshop featured in Chimes
- Ed Dobson Announces Retirement
- ELCA News Release on Consultation on Multicultural Congregations
- Ezekiel 34 for Christ the King Sunday
- Facing Your Future Begins
- Festival of FW '06: Michael Card on "Worship in the Wilderness"
- Friendship Ministires on 'What can I do to make large-group prayer more meaningful?'
- Fulton Street Revival anniversary conference - Update 2
- FYF continued...
- GC '06 Update 6
- GC '06 Update 7
- Gerardo Marti on 'fluid ethnicity' in JSSR
- Good Friday lament
- GR Press on the liturgical year
- Grants Colloquium '07 Update 2
- Grants Colloquium '07 Update 4
- Happy Renewal Year
- Hearts & Minds BookNotes on new books
- Hearts&Minds Booknotes on books on congregational conflict; books of the year
- Help Wanted
- Hymns and Praise Choruses: A Parody
- Intro to Christian Worship 2: Collaborative Worship Planning
- Intro to Christian Worship 3: Covenental Worship
- Jeremiah, vocation, and hope, in Interpretation
- Larry Sibley on Robert Webber
- Lauren Winner on Clergy Spouses as Ministry Partners
- Leadership in an Attentive Congregation
- Leadership in the Context of Church Planting
- Leadership Journal on 'How Teenagers Transformed the Church'
- Leading worship on an Air Force base
- Living Water and Baptism
- Making Meetings More Meaningful
- Making room for children's song in worship
- Martin Marty on blogging and denominational politics
- Marty: "Keep the lights on, the books open..."
- Ministering to returning soldiers: an urgent but underappreciated need
- Monday Prayer from William Willimon
- More from Disability Concerns on Worshipers with Disabilities
- Mother's Day bulletin note
- MRC web redesign
- New at CEP
- New at CEP: essay by a chaplain in Iraq
- New blog by young clergy women
- New MRC resources on teens and religion
- New training materials from BCL
- New Weblog: Bob Kauflin's 'Worship Matters'
- New Year's Resolutions for Spiritual Formation...
- Peter Bush on ''In Dying We Are Born'
- Planning Ahead: December 2007
- Planning Ahead: July/August 2008
- Planning Ahead: March and April 2008
- Planning Ahead: November 2007
- Planning Ahead: October 2007
- Planning Ahead: September 2007
- Planning Ahead: Worship in May and June 2008
- Prayer for Those Who Proclaim
- Prayer on the anniversary of the September 11 attacks
- Preaching Epiphany: "Do you see what I see?"
- Preaching Forgiveness, Acknowledging Lament
- Productivity vs. Fruitfulness
- Reading on Pastoral Care and Human Suffering
- Reflections on children in worship
- Reflections on Retreat at New Life Church in Grand Junction
- Reflections on Worship and the Christian Year
- Reformed Worship website relaunch: full-text of 80 issues now available!
- Remembering Linda Hollies
- Remembering Robert Webber
- Report from 'Googling Youth' Conference
- Report from a visit with United Methodist youth planning worship
- Report from conference on the 150th Anniversary of the Fulton Street Revival in New York City
- Report from El Buen Vecino Presbyterian
- Report From Grants Tour '07 - Visits in Washington State and British Columbia
- Report from Legacy Christian School: Vertical Habits
- Report from National Ministry Summit
- Report from National Worship Leader Conference
- Report from Singapore conference; reflections on children and worship
- Report from the Hymn Society Conference, San Antonio
- Report from trip to Singapore
- Report from Uganda trip '07
- Report from visits with grant recipients: Worship Renewal at Work
- Report from Workshop on Leading Worship Renewal
- Report on Healthy Churches
- Reports from 'The Preacher's Oasis'
- Reports from Recent History of Worship seminar
- Resources for the Prayer of the People
- Resources for Worship and Spiritual Formation
- Robertson and Falwell: Spokespeople without a people?
- September travels
- September Visit to Grant Recipients
- Sermon audio online
- Soundness
- Stringfellow on 'the vocation of the baptized person'
- Sundays in the Country
- Symposium '07 3
- Teaching and reflecting on the theology of worship at Holy Cross Lutheran in Maine
- Teaching Hymnology '07
- Teaching Worship 10
- Teaching Worship 2
- Teaching Worship 3
- Teaching Worship 4
- Teaching Worship 5
- Teaching Worship 6
- Teaching Worship 7
- Teaching Worship 8
- Teaching Worship 9
- Teaching Worship Seminar Begins
- The "ability to see what's really been there all the time"
- The Banner on Pentecost and Hospitality
- The Joy of Music in Community: Reflections on Gloriae Dei Cantores
- The Old Hymns - from 1891
- The Psalms on enemies
- The Sacramental Imagination
- Tim McCarthy on worship leadership in Christian higher education
- Time magazine on a paradigm shift in youth ministry
- Twitter feed from the Fall Preaching conference
- Uganda Trip '07 Update 2
- Uganda Trip '07 Update 3
- Uganda Trip '07 Update 4
- Uganda Trip '07 Update 5
- Uganda Trip '07 Update 6
- Uganda Trip '07 Update 7
- Uganda Trip '07 Update 8
- Upcoming Event: N.T. Wright on the Sacraments
- Using the Revised Common Lectionary in Contemporary Worship
- Van Dyk named VP at Western Seminary
- WCC on Creative Commons licensing for churches: 'Love to Share'
- What letdown? Worship after Easter
- What Worship Leaders Could Learn from Bono
- William Willimon: 'Christ Means Change'
- Witvliet interviewed at Sojourn Music
- Words Of Wisdom About Worship: God the Subject
- Worship and The Emmaus Road
- Worship Leader redesign
- Worship of God, not worship of worship
- Worship Planning Idea: A Service on Discerning God's Will
- Worship Planning Idea: Baptism and Easter - A Festival Service for Eastertide
- Worship Planning Idea: Celebrating three Old Testament Spring festivals
- Worship Planning Idea: Knitting worship into the fabric of congregational life
- Worship Planning Idea: Knowing The Holy Spirit Through the Old Testament
- Worship Planning Idea: Lamb of God - Creating a service based on lamb passages in scripture
- Worship Planning Idea: Pentecost Series on Witness and Mission
- Worship Planning Idea: Psalms During Lent
- Worship Planning Idea: Taize Chant on Micah 6:8
- Worship Planning Idea: Using Planning Grids to Plan Your Worship
- Worship Planning Ideas
- Worship Planning: 'a new way of working, together"
- Worship Renewal: Continuing the Discussion, and the Definition
- Worship That is Un-'just'
- WorshipHelps on the Advent Wreath in Worship
- WorshipHelps Weblog
- WOWAW 11: The Order of Service as a Pattern for Participation (Or, The Upside of Predictability)
- WOWAW 14: Music, Worship, and Mystery
- WOWAW 25: "A first-hand experience of God's hand on your shoulder"
- WOWAW 26: 'They care that when they worship, God is present'
- WOWAW 30: 'planners of worship do not make worship meaningful'
Liturgical Arts
- "A shoot shall come out from the stump of Jesse" - Advent at South Bend CRC
- "Awake, My Soul": New Documentary on Sacred Harp
- "Sing Choirs of New Jerusalem"
- 'Christ of the Earthquakes' by Alberto Torres
- 'I Am The Bread of Life': Setting is Everything
- 'Image' special issue on 'The Matter of Devotion'
- 'One God, Many Voices: The Changing Sound of Worship': Special issue of 'Theology News & Notes'
- 'Redeemed One' by Virginia Wieringa
- 'Seeing the Savior' exhibit at John Knox Presbyterian in Seattle
- 'Thomas' by Rex Hausmann
- 'Worship Composition' in Perspectives
- A Few of My Favorite Hymns
- A picture of connections in the biblical narrative
- Advent Lament at Ann Arbor Campus Chapel
- AGO Service of Evensong
- Alban Weekly on The Role of Musicians in Multicultural Worship
- Andras Visky's Disciples: Lingering at the Tomb
- Art, taste, and generous criticism
- Arts and Worship events
- Blog reports from Transforming Culture conference in Austin
- Books & Culture report on CIVA conference
- Boston Globe on high-tech worship
- British Survey of Favorite (make that Favourite) Hymns
- BuildingChurchLeaders on 'Four Ways to Teach the Bible Creatively'
- Calvin Seerveld: Cultural Guidelines for Artists
- Christianity Today review of Sojourn album
- Christina Saj's 'Six Days of Creation' at New Brunswick Theological Seminary
- Comment's Report on International Arts Movement Encounter
- Conference: Christians in the Visual Arts
- Dyrness interviewed at worshippodcast.com
- Easter Visuals at First Reformed in Pompton Plains
- Festival of Faith and Writing '06: Luci Shaw
- Festival of FW '06: Michael Card on "Worship in the Wilderness"
- Hope Liturgical Works on liturgical art and space
- Hymnal Consultation
- Image Journal's Artist of the Month: Jeffrey Overstreet
- Image journal's website redesign
- Image on 'Sacred and Profane' in Southern Art
- Image on EnVision
- Image on Peter LaGrand
- Image update: 'The Reverend'
- Making room for children's song in worship
- Mark Noll on 'song, culture, divine bounty, and issues of harmonization'
- Ministry and Liturgy magazine Visual Art Awards announced
- More on multimedia in worship from Alban Weekly
- Museum of Biblical Art Opens in New York
- New chapter posted at 'Story and Worship' blog
- New Weblog: Bob Kauflin's 'Worship Matters'
- Nicholas Wolterstorff on space and worship at Second CRC
- Organist Retires; Organ Recovers?
- Polman pens anniversary hymn
- Praising the risen Christ as the Lamb who was slaughtered
- R&E Newsweekly on National Gallery of Art exhibit on diptychs
- Report from 'Global Consultation on Music and Missions' 2
- Report from 'Writing as Christian Proclamation in Contemporary Contexts'
- Report from Grants tour
- Report From Grants Tour '07 - Visits in Washington State and British Columbia
- Report from Legacy Christian School: Vertical Habits
- Report from the Hymn Society Conference, San Antonio
- Report from visits with grant recipients: Worship Renewal at Work
- Report on "Singing God's Song Faithfully" conference
- Report on visit with John Bell of the Iona Community
- Rienstra Hymn "Foothold" Wins Fuller Contest
- Sardis Baptist blog
- Site seen
- Site seen: MOBIA
- Smithsonian magazine on Rembrandt at 400
- Soundness
- Story and Worship blog from Jeff Barker
- Symposium '07 3
- Teaching Hymnology '07
- Teaching Hymnology 1
- Teaching Hymnology 5
- The Art of Forgiveness: Images of the Prodigal Son - new MOBIA exhibit
- The Old Hymns - from 1891
- Unity CRC conference report and audio
- USA Today article: "Shouting Hip-Hop's Praises"
- Walking tour of St. Mary Magdalene Catholic Community
- Welcome to Bert Polman
- Witvliet interviewed at Sojourn Music
- Worship and The Emmaus Road
- WOWAW 14: Music, Worship, and Mystery
Music
- The Eschatology of a Preposition in "Now Thank We All Our God"
- "Awake, My Soul": New Documentary on Sacred Harp
- "God Has Gone Up With Shouts of Joy" - song for Christ the King week
- "Sing Choirs of New Jerusalem"
- "The glory of God and the recreation of the human spirit"
- "We Gather Together" History in WSJ
- 'I Am The Bread of Life': Setting is Everything
- 'Modern folk music'
- 'One God, Many Voices: The Changing Sound of Worship': Special issue of 'Theology News & Notes'
- 'Rise up church with broken wings'
- 'Throughout these Lenten days and nights'
- 'Worship Composition' in Perspectives
- A Few of My Favorite Hymns
- A Visit with Keith and Kristyn Getty
- AGO Service of Evensong
- Alban Weekly on The Role of Musicians in Multicultural Worship
- Alison Adam: Song of the People
- Baltimore Sun on 'Amazing Grace'
- British Survey of Favorite (make that Favourite) Hymns
- Calling All Hymn Writers
- Catapult on Faith and Music: "Tuning In"
- Christian History on Spirituals
- Christianity Today review of Sojourn album
- Hymn for Pentecost: Creator Spirit, by Whose Aid
- Hymnal Consultation
- Hymns and Praise Choruses: A Parody
- Image on Peter LaGrand
- InSites newsletter: latest edition
- Jimmie Abbington on NBC News
- Making room for children's song in worship
- Mark Noll on 'song, culture, divine bounty, and issues of harmonization'
- New training materials from BCL
- New Weblog: Bob Kauflin's 'Worship Matters'
- New worship CD recording from Calvin Capella choir
- Organist Retires; Organ Recovers?
- Polman pens anniversary hymn
- Reflections from the Psalm Festival
- Remembering Linda Hollies
- Remembering Worship at Chicago's Pilgrim Baptist
- Report from 'Global Consultation on Music and Missions'
- Report from 'Global Consultation on Music and Missions' 2
- Report from National Worship Leader Conference
- Report from the Hymn Society Conference, San Antonio
- Report from trip to Singapore
- Report from Uganda trip '07
- Report on "Singing God's Song Faithfully" conference
- Report on visit with John Bell of the Iona Community
- Rienstra Hymn "Foothold" Wins Fuller Contest
- Site seen
- Site seen: 'Shall We Gather At The River' from the Florida Memory Folklife Collection
- Substantive contemporary worship music: "an enormously powerful witness to the gospel"
- Teaching Hymnology '07
- Teaching Hymnology 1
- Teaching Hymnology 2
- Teaching Hymnology 3
- Teaching Hymnology 4
- Teaching Hymnology 5
- The Gospel According to Bach
- The Joy of Music in Community: Reflections on Gloriae Dei Cantores
- The living breath of the pipes
- The Old Hymns - from 1891
- Theology Today on Recovering the Legacy of Psalmody
- Uganda Trip '07 Update 2
- Uganda Trip '07 Update 3
- Uganda Trip '07 Update 4
- Uganda Trip '07 Update 5
- Uganda Trip '07 Update 6
- Uganda Trip '07 Update 7
- Uganda Trip '07 Update 8
- Upcoming Event: Program honoring composer Raymond Haan
- Update from Keith and Kristyn Getty
- WCC on Creative Commons licensing for churches: 'Love to Share'
- Welcome to Bert Polman
- Workshop and Worship at Open Table of Christ United Methodist Church in Providence, R.I.
- WOWAW 14: Music, Worship, and Mystery
- WOWAW 21: 'The Bible [is] a liturgical book'
News
- "Awake, My Soul": New Documentary on Sacred Harp
- "We Gather Together" History in WSJ
- 'ChurchBeat' blog
- 'E-mails from Korea:' Banner cover story
- 'Gilead' wins Grawemeyer Award in Religion
- 'Sea to Sea' Reaches Second Shore
- 'Seeing the Savior' exhibit at John Knox Presbyterian in Seattle
- 'Wine Before Breakfast' at the University of Toronto
- 60 Minutes on the persecution of Christians in Iraq
- Alban Institute website redesign
- Anglican News Service on rebuilding Nunavut cathedral
- B&C on Charismatic Christianity in South America
- Baltimore Sun on 'Amazing Grace'
- Beware Journalistic Flattery of the Church
- Bono on worship
- Books & Culture report on CIVA conference
- Boston Globe on high-tech worship
- British Survey of Favorite (make that Favourite) Hymns
- Brother Roger, Founder of Taize Community, Murdered at Age 90
- ByFaith magazine on missionaries and the weaking U.S. dollar
- Calling All Hymn Writers
- Center for Social Research blog
- Chapel Hill News article on grant recipient
- Chapel Hill News Coverage of Grant Recipient
- Christian Churches Together Launch Postponed
- Christian Reformed Church website redesign
- Christianity Today review of Sojourn album
- Christina Saj's 'Six Days of Creation' at New Brunswick Theological Seminary
- Church Has Sprung
- Church to creat council on disability ministry
- CICW director quoted in the Washington Post
- CICW featured on CNN
- CICW quoted in NY Times piece on megachurches closing for Christmas
- Conference: Christians in the Visual Arts
- Conversations About Leadership and the Changing Church
- Corwin Smidt on political cues during worship
- Courier-Post article on Bridge of Peace
- Coverage of Sardis Baptist grant at CBFNC
- CRC World Relief on Aceh, Indonesia
- CRCNA on new building for Santa Tecla congregation
- Debunking 'Da Vinci'
- Dorm worship workshop featured in Chimes
- Easter Mass at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre
- Ed Dobson Announces Retirement
- Emily Brink honored with Alumni Award
- FACTS report on congregational growth
- First United Methodist Featured in the Santa Monica Daily Press
- For Sake of Budget, Stewardship: Lights Out
- General Assem-blog
- GR Press coverage of congregations study
- GR Press on Alison Adam seminar
- GR Press on Symposium 2007
- GR Press on the liturgical year
- Grant recipient featured in VMC newsletter
- Grant recipient reaches out to robbers
- Grants '06 'listening tour'
- Grants Colloquium 2005 This Week
- Happy 100th to Christ Church of Bangkok
- Happy 25th to the Meeter Center for Calvin Studies
- Happy Birthday to Our Director
- Hastings College article on worship grant
- Heroic Rebuilding at Hopewell
- Image journal's website redesign
- Image on Peter LaGrand
- Indonesian churches pick up pieces after earthquake
- InSites newsletter: latest edition
- Jim Schaap on commemoration and sacraments at a CRC anniversary celebration
- Jimmie Abbington on NBC News
- Koster takes post at BTGH
- Larry Sibley on Robert Webber
- Martin Marty on blogging and denominational politics
- Marty: "Keep the lights on, the books open..."
- Ministry and Liturgy magazine Visual Art Awards announced
- N.T. Wright on Heaven: 'Surprised By Hope'
- New International Commentary digital references
- New URL
- News article on congregations and disability
- NY Times on Sudanese worshipers in the U.S.
- Oldest Christian Church found in Jordan?
- Organist Retires; Organ Recovers?
- Pictures from Blacksburg
- Podcasting, as begun in 1825
- Polman pens anniversary hymn
- Pope John Paul II and Protestants
- Prayer on the anniversary of the September 11 attacks
- Prayers for Blacksburg
- Prayers for Blacksburg - one year later
- Prayers for Chip Stam, and Reflections on 'the Graciousness of Uncertainty'
- Preparing to Pray 11/2/05
- Preparing to Pray 9/16
- Preparing to Pray 9/23/05
- Preparing to Pray 9/9/05
- R&E Newsweekly on National Gallery of Art exhibit on diptychs
- Reformed Ecumenical Council Update 1
- Regenerating re:generation quarterly
- Remembering Linda Hollies
- Remembering Robert Webber
- Remembering Worship at Chicago's Pilgrim Baptist
- Report from a Symposium based on Wolterstorff book on Justice
- Report from Grants tour
- Report from the Hymn Society Conference, San Antonio
- Report from trip to Singapore
- Report from Uganda trip '07
- Report on Healthy Churches
- Roanoke Times coverage of Blacksburg Ecumenical Service
- Robertson and Falwell: Spokespeople without a people?
- Sea to Sea
- September travels
- Talking Web 2.0 at Lilly Consultation
- The Art of Forgiveness: Images of the Prodigal Son - new MOBIA exhibit
- The decline of Religion sections in newspapers
- Time magazine on a paradigm shift in youth ministry
- Toledo Blade coverage of grant recipient
- Unenlightened Enlightenment assumptions in 'The Politics of God'
- Update from Keith and Kristyn Getty
- USA Today article: "Shouting Hip-Hop's Praises"
- Van Dyk named VP at Western Seminary
- Washington Post watchdog: "as long as religion [is] reported thoroughly and sensitively..."
- Welcome to Bert Polman
- Wi-Fi in Church?
- Worship Connection e-newsletter
- Worship Renewal: Continuing the Discussion, and the Definition
Preaching
- "It's your existence I love you for"
- 'Biblical' sayings not actually in the Bible
- 'brood of vipers': insights on an idiom
- 'Christ Plays' 181-199
- 'God on Mute'
- 'Keeping and Talking the Word' begins
- 'Life and Religion Are One'
- 'Receiving the Kingdom': Sermon at River Terrace
- 'Why pastors should blog'
- 1 and 2 Chronicles as 'reforming history'
- 17th-Century Service at Jamestown
- A December Epiphany
- A picture of connections in the biblical narrative
- Alban Weekly on 'Pastor as Teacher, Congregation as Learning Community'
- Alban Weekly on the Transition into Ministry initiative
- Anthony Carter on Moses
- August Banner articles on pastoral ministry
- Augustine: Simply Seeking Understanding
- Basil on the Holy Spirit
- BCL on ministering to those with disabilities
- Bees' honey as a metaphor in the Old Testament
- Blogging Toward Sunday
- Books&Culture on 'Nineteenth-Century Women Writing on Women in Genesis'
- Bookshelf: New Testament Words
- BuildingChurchLeaders on 'Four Ways to Teach the Bible Creatively'
- BuildingChurchLeaders on preaching in a series
- Catapult on 'In Sickness'
- Christianity Today on 'Poor in Spirit'
- Christianity Today on 'Seeker Unfriendly' Worship
- Classic Reflections on Lent and Easter from the CCEL
- Colossians 1 reflection from Interpretation
- Commentaries on Philippians
- Commentaries on the Psalms
- Corwin Smidt on political cues during worship
- Engaging kids during the sermon
- Eugene Peterson: "Eat This Book"
- Ezekiel 34 for Christ the King Sunday
- First United Methodist Featured in the Santa Monica Daily Press
- Grants Colloquium '07 Update 3
- Hearts & Minds BookNotes on new books
- Image update: 'The Reverend'
- Imaginative Reading 2: The Grapes of Wrath
- Imaginative Reading 3: Silence
- Imaginative Reading 4: Children's Literature
- Imaginative Reading 5: A River Runs Through It
- Imaginative Reading 6: Norris and Lamott
- Imaginative Reading 7: Poetry
- Imaginative Reading for Creative Preaching Begins
- Intro to Christian Worship 2: Collaborative Worship Planning
- ISOT on Covenant-God, not Contract-God
- Jeremiah, vocation, and hope, in Interpretation
- Jesus the Builder
- JSNT on the Head-Waiter and Bridegroom in John 2
- Keeping and Talking the Word 2
- Keeping and Talking the Word 3
- Keeping and Talking the Word 4
- Keeping and Talking the Word 5
- Keeping and Talking the Word 6
- Keeping and Talking the Word 7
- Keeping and Talking the Word 8
- Koster takes post at BTGH
- Leading worship on an Air Force base
- Listening to Sermons in the 17th Century
- Martin Luther: "No mightier comfort"
- Monday Prayer from William Willimon
- N.T. Wright on "The Most Dangerous Baby"
- N.T. Wright on Heaven: 'Surprised By Hope'
- New at CEP
- New at CEP: essay by a chaplain in Iraq
- New blog by young clergy women
- New Year's Resolutions for Spiritual Formation...
- NTS on Awe in Revelation 4&5
- NTS on Paul, redemption, creation, and the 'cosmic covenant'
- Philip Jenkins excerpt on the Bible in the Global South
- Prayer for Those Who Proclaim
- Preaching Epiphany: "Do you see what I see?"
- Preparing for Palm Sunday
- Preparing to Pray 9/23/05
- Reflections on Worship and the Christian Year
- Reports from 'The Preacher's Oasis'
- Richard Lischer on the Christian memoir
- Sermon audio online
- Site seen: Public domain sermon archive based on the lectionary
- SJOT on the Messiah Figure of the Old Testament
- Stringfellow on 'the vocation of the baptized person'
- Symposium '06 3
- The New Yorker on Bible marketing
- Too early to think about preaching in the summer?
- Twitter feed from the Fall Preaching conference
- Upcoming events at The Liturgical Institute
- William Willimon: 'Christ Means Change'
- Worship Planning Idea: Knitting worship into the fabric of congregational life
- Worship Planning Idea: Knowing The Holy Spirit Through the Old Testament
Publications
- 'Where 20 or 30 Are Gathered' Featured in Alban Weekly
- Alphabet Soup
- Book Blogging: Who's Afraid of Postmodernism? - Chapter 4
- Boston Globe on high-tech worship
- Echoes of Psalm 1 in Jeremiah
- Excommunicate With Care
- Forum Spring '05: Worship Space
- Holy Week Worship at Unity Christian High School
- Intro to Christian Worship 4: Justice and Worship
- It's Greek -- and Hebrew, and Chinese -- To Me
- Judging a Word by its Book Covers
- Katrina's Devastation of Places of Worship
- Mariano Avila studies Mexican churches for second PhD
- Meditation on Philippians 1:1: Servants
- More on multimedia in worship from Alban Weekly
- Names of God in the Old Testament from Ancient Hebrew Research Center
- Philosophy and Liturgy - Update 9
- Picture prayers from the children at Cornerstone CRC
- Planning Ahead: July/August 2007
- Prayer for Illumination
- Preparing to Pray 2/10
- Preparing to Pray in Advent and Christmas Worship
- Purpose-Driven, Practice-Driven
- Reflections on worship workshop in Jersey City
- Reformed Worship website relaunch: full-text of 80 issues now available!
- Report from 'Liturgy and Politics: Is the Church a Polis?' Seminar
- Report From Grants Tour '07
- Responses to Recent Publications
- Statistically Improbable Phrases
- Symposium '06 2
- Symposium '08 Update 15
- Theology of Reformed Worship 5
- Wabash Center website redesign
- Whatever Happened To The Twelve Days of Christmas?
- Worship Leader on pastors and musicians: 'Holy Headlock or Wedlock'
- Worship Planning Idea: A Service on Discerning God's Will
- WOWAW 12: 'Creation rhythms get inside us through the act of worship'
- WOWAW 13: Created to Worship
- WOWAW 19: Worship as God's 'language school for life'
- WOWAW 32: "Worshipers are called upon..."
- WOWAW 33: "Worship involves motion"
- WOWAW 6
- WOWAW 7
Reading
- "Prayer of the Trinity" by N.T. Wright
- "So Much" Merit
- "The glory of God and the recreation of the human spirit"
- 'At Play in the House of the Lord' at CT Library
- 'Biblical' sayings not actually in the Bible
- 'brood of vipers': insights on an idiom
- 'Christ Plays' 133-146
- 'Christ Plays' 147-181
- 'Christ Plays' 181-199
- 'Christ Plays' 200-212
- 'Christ Plays' 200-212
- 'Christ Plays' 26-39
- 'ChurchBeat' blog
- 'Come and See'
- 'E-mails from Korea:' Banner cover story
- 'Gilead' wins Grawemeyer Award in Religion
- 'God on Mute'
- 'Grateful to the Dead': A Historical Faith
- 'Image' special issue on 'The Matter of Devotion'
- 'Jesus, Son of God and Son of David'
- 'One God, Many Voices: The Changing Sound of Worship': Special issue of 'Theology News & Notes'
- 'Our Transnational Anthem' (Christian Vision Project)
- 'Philosophy in the Service of Theology'
- 'Religious Dimensions of Consumer Culture'
- 'Worship Composition' in Perspectives
- 'Worship in the Fourth Gospel' by Jerome Neyrey
- 17th-Century Service at Jamestown
- Acerno, Italy, 1943
- Advice on Choosing a Research Topic for Doctoral Work in New Testament
- Alban Institute website redesign
- Alban Weekly on 'Vital Congregations as Intentional Communities of Practice'
- Alban Weekly on "Expanding the Leadership Circle"
- Alban Weekly on "Key Dimensions of Healthy Partnerships"
- Alban Weekly on "Living Your Story"
- Alban Weekly on "Practicing Congregations"
- Alban Weekly on 'A Ministry of All'
- Alban Weekly on 'A New Story for the Church in the 21st Century'
- Alban Weekly on 'Congregational Web Sites: Our New Front Door'
- Alban Weekly on 'Leadership in a Non-Staff-Dependent Congregation'
- Alban Weekly on 'Pastor as Teacher, Congregation as Learning Community'
- Alban Weekly on Grace and Graciousness
- Alban Weekly on humble leadership
- Alban Weekly on Praying Congregations
- Alban Weekly on Promoting Healthy Congregations
- Alban Weekly on the problem of trying to 'meet needs'
- Alban Weekly on The Role of Musicians in Multicultural Worship
- Alban Weekly on the Transition into Ministry initiative
- Ancient Prayer of Confession
- Anthony Carter on Moses
- APCE Advocate on Creative Worship
- Art, taste, and generous criticism
- August Banner articles on pastoral ministry
- B&C on 'Sundays in America'
- B&C on Charismatic Christianity in South America
- Basil on the Holy Spirit
- BCL on ministering to those with disabilities
- Bees' honey as a metaphor in the Old Testament
- Best books of 2006
- Birthday of the Elizabethan Prayer Book (BCP)
- Blogging Toward Sunday
- Bono on worship
- Book Blogging: Recalling the Hope of Glory - Part 1
- Book Blogging: Recalling the Hope of Glory - Part 2
- Book Blogging: Recalling the Hope of Glory - Part 3
- Book Blogging: Who's Afraid of Postmodernism? - Chapter 1
- Book Blogging: Who's Afraid of Postmodernism? - Chapter 2
- Book Blogging: Who's Afraid of Postmodernism? - Chapter 3
- Book on Liturgy and Life in the Early Church
- Books & Culture on new books on prayer
- Books&Culture on 'Nineteenth-Century Women Writing on Women in Genesis'
- Bookshelf: 'Augustine and Postmodernism'
- Bookshelf: 'Sacred Space in Early Modern Europe' and 'Welcoming Children'
- Bookshelf: 'The 'Empty' Church Revisited'
- Bookshelf: New Testament Words
- Bunyan and Wesley e-books
- C.S. Lewis on Christmas: "what is uncreated, eternal, came into nature"
- Catapult on 'In Sickness'
- CCEL Times - new issue
- CCEL Times - October issue
- CCEL web redesign
- CH Newsletter on Augustine's legacy
- CH on 'What Luther Said'
- CH on Early Church voices on the Eucharist
- CH on the Nicene Creed
- Christian Century blog
- Christian History on "Happy Advent?"
- Christian History on its relaunched website
- Christian History on martyrdom in the early church
- Christian History on Spirituals
- Christian Smith on "emerging adulthood"
- Christianity in the Middle East
- Christianity Today on 'Poor in Spirit'
- Christianity Today on 'Seeker Unfriendly' Worship
- CICW director quoted in the Washington Post
- CIRT review of 'Jesus of Africa'
- Classic Reflections on Lent and Easter from the CCEL
- Colossians 1 reflection from Interpretation
- Comment on Recovering the Lost Logic of the Church
- Commentaries on the Psalms
- Corwin Smidt on political cues during worship
- Courier-Post article on Bridge of Peace
- CT on Dallas Willard
- CTS Forum Spring '06: 'Always Reforming'
- David Koyzis on the Victoria Psalter
- Debunking 'Da Vinci'
- Dwelling with Psalm 63
- Eric Jacobsen's reading list on cities
- Eugene Peterson: "Eat This Book"
- Ezekiel 34 for Christ the King Sunday
- Fleming Rutledge: "Advent begins in the dark"
- George Thompson, Jr. on the "inner-directed conventional church"
- Gerardo Marti on 'fluid ethnicity' in JSSR
- GR Press coverage of congregations study
- Grants Colloquium '07 Update 3
- Happy 25th to the Meeter Center for Calvin Studies
- Hartford Institute for Religion Research website redesign
- Hearts & Minds BookNotes on new books
- Hearts&Minds Booknotes on books on congregational conflict; books of the year
- Heroic Rebuilding at Hopewell
- How not to confess
- Image Journal's Artist of the Month: Jeffrey Overstreet
- Image journal's website redesign
- Image on 'Sacred and Profane' in Southern Art
- Imaginative Reading 3: Silence
- Imaginative Reading 4: Children's Literature
- Imaginative Reading 5: A River Runs Through It
- Imaginative Reading 6: Norris and Lamott
- Imaginative Reading 7: Poetry
- InSites e-newsletter: latest edition
- InSites newsletter: latest edition
- ISOT on Covenant-God, not Contract-God
- JECS on Ancient Church Order Literature
- Jeremiah, vocation, and hope, in Interpretation
- Jesus the Builder
- Joseph the Mystery
- JSNT on the Head-Waiter and Bridegroom in John 2
- JTS latest issue now online
- Justin Martyr on early Christian worship
- Leadership in an Attentive Congregation
- Leadership Journal on 'How Teenagers Transformed the Church'
- Lectionary readings for the first Sunday of Advent: "the day is near"
- Listening for wordplay in Hebrew
- Listening to Sermons in the 17th Century
- liturgical spelling "corrections"
- Martin Luther: "No mightier comfort"
- Marty: "Keep the lights on, the books open..."
- Mass in New Orleans
- Meditation on Philippians 1:1: Slaves
- Meditation on Psalm 12: Disappeared
- Meditation on Psalm 14: Fool
- Meditation on Psalm 18: Gored
- Meditation on Psalm 1: Rooted
- Meditation on Psalm 20: Anointed
- Meditation on Psalm 22: Devoured
- Meditation on Psalm 23: Want
- Meditation on Psalm 24: Fullness
- Meditation on Psalm 26: Associate
- Meditation on Psalm 6: Groan
- Meditation on Psalm 9: whole-hearted
- Meditation: 'Making All Things New'?
- Monday Prayer from William Willimon
- More on 'worship' and 'latreuo'
- N.T. Wright on "The Most Dangerous Baby"
- N.T. Wright on Heaven: 'Surprised By Hope'
- New at CEP
- New at CEP: essay by a chaplain in Iraq
- New blog by young clergy women
- New chapter posted at 'Story and Worship' blog
- New MRC resources on teens and religion
- News coverage of grant recipients Zion Lutheran and Third CRC
- Not Trying to Understand the Trinity
- NTS on Paul, redemption, creation, and the 'cosmic covenant'
- NY Times on Sudanese worshipers in the U.S.
- Oldest Christian Church found in Jordan?
- Peter Bush on ''In Dying We Are Born'
- Philip Jenkins excerpt on the Bible in the Global South
- Podcasting, as begun in 1825
- Prayer on the anniversary of the September 11 attacks
- Psalm 119:18
- Reading on Pastoral Care and Human Suffering
- Reflections on "counsel" and "tree" in Psalm 1
- Reformed Worship website relaunch: full-text of 80 issues now available!
- Report from 'Writing as Christian Proclamation in Contemporary Contexts'
- Report from 'Writing as Christian Proclamation in Contemporary Contexts': Week 2
- Resources for Fonts for the Biblical Languages
- Resources for Worship and Spiritual Formation
- Richard Lischer on the Christian memoir
- Richard Ostling on religious freedom
- Roanoke Times coverage of Blacksburg Ecumenical Service
- Seerveld on Thanksgiving
- Serving Two Masters? Christian Smith on American giving
- Site seen: "Full-Bodied, Red-Wine Christian Orthodoxy"
- Site seen: Public domain sermon archive based on the lectionary
- SJOT on the Messiah Figure of the Old Testament
- Slate blogs the Bible
- Slate on Psalm 119: Laws to Love
- Spurgeon on keeping Christmas year round
- Story and Worship blog from Jeff Barker
- Strauss and Seerveld on Reading the Bible
- Stringfellow on 'the vocation of the baptized person'
- Symposium '08: all blog posts
- Terry Mattingly on food and faith
- The Banner on Pentecost and Hospitality
- The decline of Religion sections in newspapers
- The Gospel According to Bach
- The Interstate: Road away from worship
- The New Yorker on Bible marketing
- The Old Hymns - from 1891
- The Psalms on enemies
- The Puritans: 'Physicians of the soul'
- The Shape of Faith: The Sign of the Cross
- Theolog on 'Creative Dislocation'
- Theology Today on Recovering the Legacy of Psalmody
- This is what 2,000 books looks like
- Thomas Lynch on Death and Dying
- Tim McCarthy on worship leadership in Christian higher education
- Time magazine on a paradigm shift in youth ministry
- Titles of Psalms 42-89
- Translating "my familiar friend" in Psalm 41
- Unenlightened Enlightenment assumptions in 'The Politics of God'
- Using Google Reader and RSS to Keep Current with Journal Literature
- Washington Post watchdog: "as long as religion [is] reported thoroughly and sensitively..."
- WCC on Creative Commons licensing for churches: 'Love to Share'
- Weekly Standard on 'Holland's Post-Secular Future'
- Wesley on Christian birth and growth
- What is Worship?
- William Willimon: 'Christ Means Change'
- Words Of Wisdom About Worship: God the Subject
- Worship of God, not worship of worship
- Worship Planning Idea: Knowing The Holy Spirit Through the Old Testament
- WorshipHelps Weblog
- WOWAW 14: Music, Worship, and Mystery
- WOWAW 15: 'Worship extends beyond the bounds of the assembly'
- WOWAW 27: 'A language for joy'
- WOWAW 28: 'Worship is the main work of God's people'
- WOWAW 29: 'The Eucharist ... puts us in our place'
World
- "Sing Choirs of New Jerusalem"
- "We Gather Together" History in WSJ
- 'Christ of the Earthquakes' by Alberto Torres
- 'E-mails from Korea:' Banner cover story
- 'O God, lift up your hand; do not forget the oppressed'
- 'One God, Many Voices: The Changing Sound of Worship': Special issue of 'Theology News & Notes'
- 'Our Transnational Anthem' (Christian Vision Project)
- 'Sea to Sea' Reaches Second Shore
- 1 and 2 Chronicles as 'reforming history'
- 60 Minutes on the persecution of Christians in Iraq
- A Brazilian Church Finds Success in Africa
- Al Hsu on worship at Beijing International Christian Fellowship
- Alison Adam: Song of the People
- Anglican News Service on rebuilding Nunavut cathedral
- Asia Trip '06 Update 2
- Asia Trip '06 Update 3
- Asia Trip '06 Update 4
- Asia Trip '06 Update 5
- Asia Trip '06 Update 6
- B&C on Charismatic Christianity in South America
- British Survey of Favorite (make that Favourite) Hymns
- ByFaith magazine on missionaries and the weaking U.S. dollar
- Christian History on Andrew Walls
- Christianity in the Middle East
- CIRT review of 'Jesus of Africa'
- CRC World Relief on Aceh, Indonesia
- CRCNA on new building for Santa Tecla congregation
- George Weigel on 'Revolutionary Papacies"
- Gerardo Marti on 'fluid ethnicity' in JSSR
- GR Press on Alison Adam seminar
- Happy 100th to Christ Church of Bangkok
- Indonesian churches pick up pieces after earthquake
- JSNT on the Head-Waiter and Bridegroom in John 2
- Mark Noll on Christianity in Canada ...
- Model for worship and culture
- New at CEP: essay by a chaplain in Iraq
- NY Times on Sudanese worshipers in the U.S.
- Philip Jenkins excerpt on the Bible in the Global South
- Prayer Booth Takes Shape
- Prayers leading up to Symposium
- Prayers of the People in Morning Worship at the Seminary Chapel
- Praying for Christians in Iraq
- Preparing to Pray 1/6
- Preparing to Pray 10/14/05
- Preparing to Pray 10/21/05
- Preparing to Pray 10/26/05
- Preparing to Pray 10/5/05
- Preparing to Pray 11/11/05
- Preparing to Pray 11/2/05
- Preparing to Pray 12/2
- Preparing to Pray 12/9
- Preparing to Pray 9/16
- Preparing to Pray 9/23/05
- Preparing to Pray 9/29/05
- Preparing to Pray at Symposium 2006
- Reading the Bible in the Global South
- REC 10
- REC 11
- REC 12
- REC 2
- REC 3
- REC 4
- REC 5
- REC 6
- REC 7
- REC 8
- REC 9
- REC Update 13
- Reformed Ecumenical Council Update 1
- Report from 'Global Consultation on Music and Missions'
- Report from 'Global Consultation on Music and Missions' 2
- Report from Asia Trip '06
- Report from Singapore conference; reflections on children and worship
- Report from trip to Singapore
- Report from Uganda trip '07
- Report on visit with John Bell of the Iona Community
- Response to Vital Worship Feature on Korean Churches
- Shepherd and Word Conference in Albania
- Substantive contemporary worship music: "an enormously powerful witness to the gospel"
- Thanksgiving gratitude at Princeton Church
- The Need for Creeds
- Uganda Trip '07 Update 2
- Uganda Trip '07 Update 3
- Uganda Trip '07 Update 4
- Uganda Trip '07 Update 5
- Uganda Trip '07 Update 6
- Uganda Trip '07 Update 7
- Uganda Trip '07 Update 8
- Update from Singapore trip '07
- WCC on Creative Commons licensing for churches: 'Love to Share'
- Weekly Standard on 'Holland's Post-Secular Future'
- Wi-Fi in Church?
- Worship at African Community Fellowship Church
- Worship at St. Mary Magdalene in Reigate
- Worship in Korea: A Church With 7 Services
- WorshipHelps Weblog
- WOWAW 31: "Worship relates dynamically to culture in at least four ways"
Worshipers
- "Prayer of the Trinity" by N.T. Wright
- 'All the Wonder of Redemption'
- 'Biblical' sayings not actually in the Bible
- 'Building Blocks of Relationships'
- 'Come and See'
- 'God on Mute'
- 'One God, Many Voices: The Changing Sound of Worship': Special issue of 'Theology News & Notes'
- 'Rise up church with broken wings'
- 'Soul Searching' documentary
- 'The Spirit's gifts are here to stay'
- 'Throughout these Lenten days and nights'
- 'Worship gets us beyond our fatal attraction with self'
- 'Worship Matters': The Presence of God
- 1 Corinthians 14 and Accessibility of Worship to Unbelievers
- A December Epiphany
- A New Year's Refrain from Psalm 31
- Advent Worship
- Alban Weekly on "A Praying Congregation"
- Alban Weekly on 'Hospitality to the Stranger'
- Alban Weekly on 'Ministering to the Missing Generation'
- Alban Weekly on Grace and Graciousness
- Alison Adam: Song of the People
- Alleluia! Christ is risen
- Ancient Prayer of Confession
- Apprenticeship and mentorship in youth ministry
- Ascension Day: Beyond the Blank Blue Sky
- Baptism: "a once and future thing"
- Basil on the Holy Spirit
- BCL on ministering to those with disabilities
- Benedict XVI on Worship
- Blacksburg Worship Service set for Nov. 4
- Blogging Toward Sunday
- Books & Culture on new books on prayer
- BuildingChurchLeaders on 'Four Ways to Teach the Bible Creatively'
- C.S. Lewis on Christmas: "what is uncreated, eternal, came into nature"
- Catapult on 'In Sickness'
- Christian Smith on "emerging adulthood"
- Christianity Today on 'Poor in Spirit'
- Christianity Today on 'Seeker Unfriendly' Worship
- Church to creat council on disability ministry
- Classic Reflections on Holy Week
- Classic Reflections on Lent and Easter from the CCEL
- Closing Prayer for Eastertide
- Come and worship Christ, the newborn King
- Comment on Recovering the Lost Logic of the Church
- Commentaries on the Psalms
- Conversation on Worship and Spiritual Formation
- CRC Disability Concerns office and issues related to worship and disabilities
- David Koyzis on the Victoria Psalter
- Dorothy Bass on Practicing Our Faith
- Easter Mass at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre
- Engaging kids during the sermon
- Eugene Peterson: "Eat This Book"
- Festival of FW '06: Michael Card on "Worship in the Wilderness"
- Fleming Rutledge: "Advent begins in the dark"
- Friendship Ministires on 'What can I do to make large-group prayer more meaningful?'
- Fulton Street Revival anniversary conference - Update 2
- Gender gap in U.S. church attendance
- Good Friday lament
- GR Press on Protestant use of the Thomas Mass
- Grants Colloquium '07 Update 2
- Hebrew table prayers
- ISOT on Covenant-God, not Contract-God
- Justin Martyr on early Christian worship
- Leadership Journal on 'How Teenagers Transformed the Church'
- Listening to Sermons in the 17th Century
- Making Meetings More Meaningful
- Making room for children's song in worship
- Martin Luther: "No mightier comfort"
- Meditation on Philippians 1:1: Slaves
- Meditation on Psalm 12: Disappeared
- Meditation on Psalm 14: Fool
- Meditation on Psalm 18: Gored
- Meditation on Psalm 1: Rooted
- Meditation on Psalm 20: Anointed
- Meditation on Psalm 22: Devoured
- Meditation on Psalm 23: Want
- Meditation on Psalm 24: Fullness
- Meditation on Psalm 26: Associate
- Meditation on Psalm 6: Groan
- Meditation on Psalm 9: whole-hearted
- Meditation: 'Making All Things New'?
- Monday Prayer from William Willimon
- More from Disability Concerns on Worshipers with Disabilities
- Mother's Day bulletin note
- Mother's Day bulletin note
- New MRC resources on teens and religion
- New Year's Resolutions for Spiritual Formation...
- News article on congregations and disability
- O Come, Let Us Adore Him
- Post-Symposium '06 Reflections
- Praising the risen Christ as the Lamb who was slaughtered
- Prayer for Lent: "In this season of Lent as we journey to the cross ... "
- Prayer for Those Who Proclaim
- Prayer on the anniversary of the September 11 attacks
- Prayers for Chip Stam, and Reflections on 'the Graciousness of Uncertainty'
- Prayers of the People in Morning Worship at the Seminary Chapel
- Praying as a Family
- Praying PsH 286
- Preparing for Palm Sunday
- Preparing to Pray 1/13
- Preparing to Pray 1/6
- Preparing to Pray 10/14/05
- Preparing to Pray 10/21/05
- Preparing to Pray 10/26/05
- Preparing to Pray 10/5/05
- Preparing to Pray 11/11/05
- Preparing to Pray 11/2/05
- Preparing to Pray 12/2
- Preparing to Pray 12/9
- Preparing to Pray 9/16
- Preparing to Pray 9/23/05
- Preparing to Pray 9/29/05
- Preparing to Pray 9/9/05
- Preparing to Pray at Symposium 2006
- Preparing to Pray in Thanksgiving Worship
- Productivity vs. Fruitfulness
- Psalm 119:18
- Public prayer for dilligence, wisdom, and patience
- Reading the Bible in the Global South
- Redeemer Presbyterian monthly prayer theme
- Reflections on children in worship
- Reflections on the Second Sunday of Lent 2006
- Reformed Worship 76: Intergenerational Worship
- Reformed Worship website relaunch: full-text of 80 issues now available!
- Report from 'Global Consultation on Music and Missions'
- Report from 'Googling Youth' Conference
- Report from a visit with United Methodist youth planning worship
- Report from Grants tour
- Report from Legacy Christian School: Vertical Habits
- Report from Singapore conference; reflections on children and worship
- Report from visits with grant recipients: Worship Renewal at Work
- Report from Workshop on Leading Worship Renewal
- Report on Childrens Spirituality Conference 2006
- Report on visit with John Bell of the Iona Community
- Resources for the Prayer of the People
- Resources for Worship and Spiritual Formation
- Reverence and Intimacy: An Essential Paradox
- Sardis Baptist blog
- Spurgeon on keeping Christmas year round
- Story and Worship blog from Jeff Barker
- Stringfellow on 'the vocation of the baptized person'
- Substantive contemporary worship music: "an enormously powerful witness to the gospel"
- Symposium '06 4
- Symposium '06 6
- Teaching and reflecting on the theology of worship at Holy Cross Lutheran in Maine
- Teaching Worship 2
- Teens Choosing Church
- Thanksgiving gratitude at Princeton Church
- The Banner on Pentecost and Hospitality
- The Interstate: Road away from worship
- The New Yorker on Bible marketing
- The Sacramental Imagination
- The Shape of Faith: The Sign of the Cross
- Theolog on 'Creative Dislocation'
- Theological Illiteracy
- Time magazine on a paradigm shift in youth ministry
- Wesley on Christian birth and growth
- What letdown? Worship after Easter
- William Willimon: 'Christ Means Change'
- Words Of Wisdom About Worship: God the Subject
- Workshop and Worship at Open Table of Christ United Methodist Church in Providence, R.I.
- Worship and The Emmaus Road
- Worship at New Community Church
- Worship of God, not worship of worship
- Worship Planning Idea: Knitting worship into the fabric of congregational life
- Worship: Ascribing the Ultimate Value
- WOWAW 1
- WOWAW 11: The Order of Service as a Pattern for Participation (Or, The Upside of Predictability)
- WOWAW 14: Music, Worship, and Mystery
- WOWAW 15: 'Worship extends beyond the bounds of the assembly'
- WOWAW 16: Worship at the Hub
- WOWAW 17: "We worship in dialogue with God and with each other"
- WOWAW 18: Worship as 'Vital Instinct'
- WOWAW 2
- WOWAW 20: Revelation and Response
- WOWAW 21: 'The Bible [is] a liturgical book'
- WOWAW 22: "A vocabulary ... that is sufficiently personal and adequately wide-ranging"
- WOWAW 23: "To cultivate our awareness of God’s actions—past, present, and future"
- WOWAW 24: "You'd think we might feel a little shocked ..."
- WOWAW 25: "A first-hand experience of God's hand on your shoulder"
- WOWAW 26: 'They care that when they worship, God is present'
- WOWAW 27: 'A language for joy'
- WOWAW 28: 'Worship is the main work of God's people'
- WOWAW 29: 'The Eucharist ... puts us in our place'
- WOWAW 3
- WOWAW 30: 'planners of worship do not make worship meaningful'
- WOWAW 31: "Worship relates dynamically to culture in at least four ways"
- WOWAW 34: A 'baptismal spirituality' for Lent
- WOWAW 4
- Young People at Princeton CRC Report on Vertical Habits
- Youth conversation at Symposium '07
Worshipping Communities
- "A shoot shall come out from the stump of Jesse" - Advent at South Bend CRC
- "Awake, My Soul": New Documentary on Sacred Harp
- "Renaissance" Worship
- "We Gather Together" History in WSJ
- 'Dinner With An Imperfect Community'?
- 'One God, Many Voices: The Changing Sound of Worship': Special issue of 'Theology News & Notes'
- 'Receiving the Kingdom': Sermon at River Terrace
- 'Rise up church with broken wings'
- 'Sea to Sea' Reaches Second Shore
- 'Where 20 or 30 Are Gathered' Featured in Alban Weekly
- 'Wine Before Breakfast' at the University of Toronto
- 17 Questions For Worship Renewal
- 60 Minutes on the persecution of Christians in Iraq
- A Brazilian Church Finds Success in Africa
- A crisp morning at Kings College Chapel
- A Visit to Caldwell Chapel in Louisville
- Advent Lament at Ann Arbor Campus Chapel
- Al Hsu on worship at Beijing International Christian Fellowship
- Alban Institute website redesign
- Alban Weekly on 'Vital Congregations as Intentional Communities of Practice'
- Alban Weekly on "A Praying Congregation"
- Alban Weekly on "Key Dimensions of Healthy Partnerships"
- Alban Weekly on "Practicing Congregations"
- Alban Weekly on "Twenty Observations about Troubled Congregations"
- Alban Weekly on 'Becoming God's Church'
- Alban Weekly on 'Congregational Web Sites: Our New Front Door'
- Alban Weekly on 'Constructing Your Congregation's Story'
- Alban Weekly on 'Hospitality to the Stranger'
- Alban Weekly on 'Leadership in a Non-Staff-Dependent Congregation'
- Alban Weekly on 'Pastor as Teacher, Congregation as Learning Community'
- Alban Weekly on 'the post-construction blues'
- Alban Weekly on Congregational Identity
- Alban Weekly on Grace and Graciousness
- Alban Weekly on Intentionality, Practice, and Vitality
- Alban Weekly on Praying Congregations
- Alban Weekly on Promoting Healthy Congregations
- Alban Weekly on The Role of Musicians in Multicultural Worship
- Anglican News Service on rebuilding Nunavut cathedral
- B&C on 'Sundays in America'
- B&C on Charismatic Christianity in South America
- Baltimore Basilica Restoration
- Barna data: Blest be the ties that bind?
- Beware Journalistic Flattery of the Church
- Blacksburg Worship Service set for Nov. 4
- Bookshelf: 'The 'Empty' Church Revisited'
- Brother Roger, Founder of Taize Community, Murdered at Age 90
- Center for Social Research blog
- Chapel Hill News Coverage of Grant Recipient
- Christian Churches Together Launch Postponed
- Christian Practices Workshops from the Alban Institute
- Christian Smith on "emerging adulthood"
- Christianity in the Middle East
- Christianity Today on 'Seeker Unfriendly' Worship
- Christianity Today review of Sojourn album
- Church Has Sprung
- Church to creat council on disability ministry
- CICW featured on CNN
- CICW quoted in NY Times piece on megachurches closing for Christmas
- Colossians 1 reflection from Interpretation
- Comment on Recovering the Lost Logic of the Church
- Cornerstone Weblog Devotions on Vertical Habits
- Corwin Smidt on political cues during worship
- Courier-Post article on Bridge of Peace
- Coverage of Sardis Baptist grant at CBFNC
- CRCNA on new building for Santa Tecla congregation
- Culture-makers and Jacob's Well
- Dorm worship workshop featured in Chimes
- Easter Mass at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre
- Easter Visuals at First Reformed in Pompton Plains
- Ed Dobson Announces Retirement
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- Mass in New Orleans
- Ministering to returning soldiers: an urgent but underappreciated need
- Mother's Day bulletin note
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- NY Times on Sudanese worshipers in the U.S.
- Oldest Christian Church found in Jordan?
- Peter Bush on ''In Dying We Are Born'
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- Reading the Bible in the Global South
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- Redeemer Presbyterian monthly prayer theme
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- Report from 'Worship Matters' in Milwaukee
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- Report From Grants Tour '07 - Visits in Washington State and British Columbia
- Report from Grants tour ‘06 4
- Report from Legacy Christian School: Vertical Habits
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- Report on Healthy Churches
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- Response to Vital Worship Feature on Korean Churches
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- Sardis Baptist blog
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- Shepherd and Word Conference in Albania
- Site seen: "Full-Bodied, Red-Wine Christian Orthodoxy"
- Teaching and reflecting on the theology of worship at Holy Cross Lutheran in Maine
- Thanksgiving gratitude at Princeton Church
- The Banner on Pentecost and Hospitality
- The decline of Religion sections in newspapers
- The Joy of Music in Community: Reflections on Gloriae Dei Cantores
- The Most Segregated Hour
- The Need for Creeds
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- Theology and the Church: Firm Foundations
- Tim McCarthy on worship leadership in Christian higher education
- Toledo Blade coverage of grant recipient
- Uganda Trip '07 Update 3
- Unity CRC conference report and audio
- Update from Singapore trip '07
- USA Today article: "Shouting Hip-Hop's Praises"
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- Weekly Standard on 'Holland's Post-Secular Future'
- Welcome and Introduction: Towards Vital Worship
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- Worship Connection e-newsletter
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- Worship in Korea: A Church With 7 Services
- Worship Renewal: Continuing the Discussion, and the Definition
- WOWAW 16: Worship at the Hub
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