thoughts and links on worship, theology, and congregational life
from the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship
November 11th, 2011
by Nicole Veenkamp I did not want to go to California. I wanted to stay home. That desire hit me hard over Christmas break as I watched people in the church I had grown up in come forward for communion. As the line walked by me, I realized that I knew almost every single person. [...]
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October 6th, 2011
Nelson Avenue Community Church in Burnaby BC recently completed a major renovation of their building. A Worship Renewal workshop was an opportunity to welcome pastors and worship leaders from throughout the Vancouver area and northern Washington to their new space. Together we worshiped, discussed and learned about the ways that worship renewal is bringing new [...]
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October 6th, 2011
Carey Theological College is located on the campus of the University of British Columbia. Along with several other seminaries they train students to be pastors and missionaries. A 2011 Worship Renewal Grant was awarded to Carey to provide a series of workshops designed to equip and empower worship leaders and pastors in recovering the meaning [...]
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October 6th, 2011
Founded in 1889 by Scandinavian immigrant farmers in a rich agricultural region just outside Seattle, WA, Kent Lutheran Church today is home to professionals in health, education, aeronautics, and technology. In 2009 Kent Lutheran Church was making plans to renovate their sanctuary. While they recognized that a grant could not fund renovations, they applied for [...]
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September 1st, 2011
At the 2012 Symposium on Worship, the Worship Institute looks forward to hosting presenter Carlos Colon, composer and choir director from El Salvador, currently at Baylor University (Texas), where he is resident fellow at the Baylor Institute of Religion and Artist-in-Residence at Armstrong Browning Library. Carlos served as conference coordinator at the recent “Conferencio de [...]
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August 1st, 2011
Reflections by Becky Hoeksema, student at Calvin Theological Seminary Despite shooting rampages and extreme heat this summer, we at Calvin and Calvin Seminary live in stable, safe, and small world. We are in one denomination with very little exposure to strong theological beliefs from vastly different denominations. Outside of campus there is a bigger [...]
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July 13th, 2011
Janine Giordano Drake For me, this summer seminar has been all about evangelicals and their quest for power, fame and glory. To be quite honest, I have found most of this quite disturbing. From two books on “Christian ambition” and how it is redirected and expressed within Los Angeles churches, to a lecture on the [...]
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July 10th, 2011
Phil Sinitiere has been blogging frequently [1, 2, 3, 4] about the “Congregations and Social Change” seminar, and I echo his enthusiasm for the collegiality of the group. I’d like to add my own thoughts about how I’ve profited as a historian among the sociologists. The disciplinary background of the seminar participants is this: 9 [...]
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July 5th, 2011
As I suggested in a previous post, the big picture, framing question in the Congregations and Social Change Seminar is the extent to which social currents impact congregations and the extent to which congregations shape societies and cultures. There have been and will continue to be different answers to these questions. This week we have [...]
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