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Alban Weekly: 'Who Locked the Gates?'

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Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

From Alban Weekly: Over the years I have heard countless painful stories about how people new to a congregation couldn’t get through the “gates” of the church—those implicit codes and requirements that those of us “inside” the church unwittingly embody and construct as barriers toward them. These include unspoken dress codes, being made to feel [...]

Symposium presenter on 'Native America Calling'

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Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

Mark Charles, who will be speaking at Symposium this year on ‘Contextualizing Worship: My journey to worship God as a Navajo Christian,’ was a guest recently on Native America Calling, about the issue of federal representation for American Indians. Listen to it here(mp3).

Prodigal Son Exhibit featured at Worship Symposium

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Monday, January 19th, 2009

We are delighted to reflect on Larry and Mary Gerbens’ collection of art on the theme of the prodigal son at Symposium this year, and to center on the parables of Jesus in our worship this year. More information about this exhibit from the Calvin College Center Art Gallery: In 2008-09 Larry and Mary Gerbens [...]

Happy 20th to Image!

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Monday, January 19th, 2009

From Image journal’s newsletter: Image issue 60 recently mailed to subscribers. In honor of our twentieth anniversary, this bumper issue includes extra pages and special visual art features: new work from twelve of our favorite artists who have appeared in Image in the past, including Mary McCleary, Tim Hawkinson, Joel Sheesley, Alfonse Borysewicz, Lynn Aldrich, [...]

Congregational statistics from the RCA

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Monday, January 19th, 2009

Comprehensive data reports on individual congregations around the continent have been released by the Reformed Church in America.

CT on how to evangelize without marketing

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Monday, January 19th, 2009

From Christianity Today: <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2009/january/10.20.html“>Marketing has problems if it makes the consumer pant for the dead opposite of what you are trying to sell. This is the issue we confront when weighing the merits of the church’s public outreach, its evangelistic task, in a Western culture saturated by marketing. By marketing, [...]

Phillip Jenkins on Recovering the Ancient Church of the Middle East

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Monday, January 19th, 2009

Phillip Jenkins, in an interview with Christianity Today: (also see his article for CT on recovering the history of the Eastern Church) [The] Eastern world has a solid claim to be the direct lineal heir of the earliest New Testament Christianity. Throughout their history, the Eastern churches used Syriac, which is close to Jesus’s own [...]

Twitter from Symposium

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Friday, January 16th, 2009

Are you on Twitter? Add the hashtag #wsymp09 to your tweets at Symposium and follow all tweets with this tag at www.tr.im/wsymp09 (how this works). You can also follow us on Twitter and follow our Twitter prayer feeds. view in a new window More about #wsymp09 on Twitter http://wthashtag.com/Wsymp09

Presenter Previews: Mark Yaconelli at Symposium 2009

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Wednesday, January 14th, 2009

Among over 70 presenters at this year’s Calvin Symposium on Worship will be Mark Yaconelli, director of the Youth Ministry and Spirituality Project at San Francisco Theological Seminary, and author of Contemplative Youth Ministry: Practicing the Presence of Jesus. Yaconelli will be leading a daylong seminar on Thursday on ‘Youth, Worship, and the Seven-Second Attention [...]

Presenter Previews: Simon Chan at Symposium 2009

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Wednesday, January 14th, 2009

Among over 70 presenters at this year’s Calvin Symposium on Worship will be Simon Chan of Trinity Theological College in Singapore. Last year Christianity Today said of Chan, author of Liturgical Theology: The Church as Worshiping Community, that he “may be the world’s most liturgically minded Pentecostal” (read its interview with him). Chan will be [...]

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Archive for January, 2009

Alban Weekly: 'Who Locked the Gates?'

Symposium presenter on 'Native America Calling'

Prodigal Son Exhibit featured at Worship Symposium

Happy 20th to Image!

Congregational statistics from the RCA

CT on how to evangelize without marketing

Phillip Jenkins on Recovering the Ancient Church of the Middle East

Twitter from Symposium

Presenter Previews: Mark Yaconelli at Symposium 2009

Presenter Previews: Simon Chan at Symposium 2009

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