thoughts and links on worship, theology, and congregational life
from the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship
July 3rd, 2011
The seminar on “Reflective Pedagogy and Christian Practices” has come to an end after two weeks. Some of the topics addressed during the second week of the seminar include the following: 1. We began the week by reflecting on the previous week, noting ideas that were important to us, ideas we want to develop more, [...]
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July 2nd, 2011
With such a title, the reader might immediately offer the charge that such a suggestion begs the question: can there be improvisation in Christian practices? After all, we tend to operate with a sense of reified (some might charge petrified) set of practices, handed down to us by the faithful over generations. The move then, [...]
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July 1st, 2011
Lord God,
at the beginning of time, your Spirit moved over the waters.
So send your Spirit to us now to open our hearts and minds
to receive the re-creating power of your Word.
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July 1st, 2011
We were grateful to receive these (and many more) reflections from participants at our recent Grants Colloquium. We thank God for this leaders, their vision, and our time together.
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June 30th, 2011
One of the delights of participating in a Calvin Seminar is to discuss author’s work with them face to face. The “backstory” of the book can be quite intriguing and revealing. It is also enlightening to hear how the book itself came together, meandered through the publication process, and jogged the minds of scholars in [...]
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June 29th, 2011
Today we fleshed out some questions that have been brewing for a while now. How does one’s theological bent affect how one views practices and how one incorporates them into a class? How explicit must we be with students about what we’re doing and why? What makes Christian practices distinctly Christian? Isn’t it possible to [...]
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June 28th, 2011
The other day as I was driving back to Grand Rapids I was listening to a sports talk radio station out of Chicago. The Washington Nationals were finishing up a series against the White Sox and Washington’s General Manager (GM) was interviewed in one of the segments of the show. This was significant because only [...]
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June 28th, 2011
Plenty has been written about what it means for Christians to read a text, from Hugh of St. Victor in the 12th c. to Paul Griffiths and Alan Jacobs in ours . . . and much more in between. But how then do we create a regime of practice in our classes that encourages a [...]
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June 27th, 2011
As I suggested in an earlier post, I am thrilled to be at academic summer camp 2011. Today’s opening session of Congregations and Social Change consisted of routine introductions and preliminary mapping of the seminar schedule. Yet the Introductions were anything but “routine.” I am excited to see how all of our projects will take [...]
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June 27th, 2011
Pierre Bourdieu’s The Logic of Practice roundly convicts the reader of his/her various forms of spectatorship which in every manner misses the sense of a practice because as a spectator, one is only looking for a logic which can be articulated via propositional schemes. Bourdieu argues that to engage in such an effort is, even [...]
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