Religion News Service press release on Symposium seminar
A Religion News Service press release about one of our Symposium seminars:
CALVIN SEMINAR TO LOOK AT 30 YEARS OF WORSHIP RENEWAL AND FEATURE MCCLAREN, PETERSON AND MORE
January 11, 2006—One highlight of the 2006 Symposium on Worship at Calvin College will be a seminar on Thursday, January 26 on how Christianity has changed over the last 30 years.
The panel is titled “What We’ve Learned Along the Way: Thirty Years of Worship Renewal” and will see noted authors Brian McClaren, Eugene Peterson and Nancy Beach examine such religious beacons as Vatican II, Willow Creek and the Emerging Church movement.
Says John Witvliet, director of the Worship Institute at Calvin (the host for the Symposium): “Arguably, Christian worship practices have changed more, and in more different directions, in the last 30 to 40 years than in any single period, with the possible exception of the earliest days of the church. How we conceptualize this change-whether we see it as mostly good or mostly harmful-significantly affects the attitudes and trajectories of our ministries today. During the day, we will hear very different perspectives on the last three to four decades.”
Panelists include:
*Albert J.D. Aymer, president of Hood Theological Seminary, Salisbury, North Carolina, a native of Antigua, and pastor of churches in the Caribbean and New Jersey
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