Web Highlighter – Dec. 1, 2009
Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
- What's New at CICW?
- Blog and Facebook
• Story: Science and Worship
• What’s New at Symposium
• New: Hymns for Worship
• Reformed Worship offer
• Festival of Faith and Writing
• Blog and Twitter Posts
The mighty God summons the earth
from the rising of the sun to the place where it sets.
Our God comes and will not be silent.
God calls, and we respond to his love.
The heavens declare God’s righteousness.
We tell out God’s glories!
- call to worship for Advent, based on Psalm 50, from The Worship Sourcebook
…for inspiration, reflection, and group discussion
Science and Faith in Harmony: Positive ways to include science in worship
New stars form in the arms of the Whirlpool spiral galaxy. NASA/courtesy of nasaimages.org.
What assumptions about science and faith would you expect to find among people in these settings?
- In a darkened auditorium, all eyes are on the screen where a spiral galaxy seems to look back. "This is the Whirlpool Galaxy, which is more than 22 million light years away," the speaker says. "Amazing," someone murmurs.
- The organist slides onto the organ bench, while lyrics fill the screen. The woman upfront says, "Please join me in singing ‘How Great Thou Art.’"
Would it surprise you to learn that both scenarios are from a single worship service?
www.calvin.edu/worship/stories/science_and_worship.php
What’s new for the upcoming Calvin Symposium on Worship (Jan. 28-30, 2010)?
• All worship services, plenary addresses, and publisher exhibits will be located in the Spoelhof Complex Arena at Calvin College, due to construction at the college’s Fine Arts Center.
• Three plenary addresses will be offered, one each morning.
www.calvin.edu/worship/symposium
Hymns for Worship is a unique collection of 256 hymns presented in chronological order beginning with a sampling of Old Testament psalms and continuing to the present. It’s like taking a 3,000-year journey through the songs of God’s people! This ecumenical anthology includes a rich variety of hymn tunes: from plainchant to folk tunes to historic psalm tunes and musical settings composed for a specific text. Use it to supplement your congregation’s tradition of hymnody; as an academic resource; or for personal, family, and small group devotions.
Like most other periodicals, Reformed Worship has to raise its prices occasionally.
Beginning with the March 2010 issue (RW #95), the price of a one-year subscription will be raised to $29.95US/$34.95CDN ($38.95US for
international subscription). Act now to lock in this year’s pric
e for one more year! Just subscribe or renew your RW subscription before February 1, 2010. And tell your friends! We’ll honor the current price if they subscribe before
February 1 too. To renew or subscribe, email subscriptions@reformedworship.org or call 1-800-777-7270.
Calvin College
April 15-17, 2010
Calvin College will host its next Festival of Faith & Writing on April 15-17,
2010. Presenters will include pastor and poet Eugene Peterson and hymn text
writer John Thornburg, (both sponsored by the Calvin Institute of Christian
Worship), plus Mary Karr, Parker Palmer, Kate DiCamillo, Ed Dobson, Debbie
Blue, Wally Lamb, Sally Lloyd-Jones, and Stephen Carter among many, many
others. Registration is $165 for the three-day event, and group discounts are
available for book clubs and church-affiliated groups. For more information or
to register, visit their website at www.calvin.edu/festival.
• Symposium Presenter Previews
• Book Group Blog Posts
www.worshipweblog.com
Articles We’ve Linked to on Twitter [what's this?]
• From @hymnary – Here are the top twenty most-published Christmas hymns – LINK
• Christmas music in malls as prolepsis – by @paulvanderklay at @thinkchristian – LINK
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