Posts Tagged ‘culture’
Report on Emily Brink’s global songs presentation at Baylor
Wednesday, April 14th, 2010
We’re delighted to read this report on our colleague Emily Brink’s presentation at Baylor University:
Songs can be adopted from one culture to another but must be treated with respect, according to Dr. Emily Brink, a senior research fellow at the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship.
In her lecture Tuesday, titled “International Adoption Agents: How Songs Find New Homes,” Brink talked about how songs cross cultural lines.
Tags: Baylor, culture, Emily Brink, global songs, Greek, Hebrew, hymns, music, O God Our Help in Ages Past
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Report #2 from Korean Worship and Music Conference
Thursday, August 13th, 2009
Second report from Paul Ryan: (read previous report) At the 12th annual Korean Worship and Music Conference several themes and issues have emerged. One of the impressive aspects of this conference is the way that leaders have maintained the tension between their faith and the openness to creativity and experimentation. Like a tree deeply rooted, [...]
Tags: conferences, culture, Korean-Americans, pryan
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Report #1 from Korean Worship and Music Conference
Thursday, August 13th, 2009
Report from Paul Ryan, filed last week from Decatur, Georgia: This week I am attending the 12th annual Korean Worship and Music Conference at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, GA. I am one of two non-Koreans attending the conference (the other is David Gambrel from the Office of Worship for the PCUSA). I am here [...]
Tags: conferences, culture, Korean-Americans, pryan
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Theolog on 'the idolatry of church-jumping'
Thursday, May 7th, 2009
From Theolog: Sometimes institutions are truly intractable, and exodus may be the only way to free their slaves. Still, there is something nefarious at work here. Eugene Peterson notes that when the heart’s proclivity to idol-making is combined with North American consumerism, the sad result is a soul-numbing, market-based smorgasbord that impels people to jump [...]
Tags: churches, congregations, culture
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Report on Festival of Faith and Music at Calvin College
Wednesday, April 8th, 2009
The Calvin College Student Activities Office hosted a tremendous event here at Calvin last weekend, the Festival of Faith and Music 2009. That website will eventually have some audio files from the conference, and I hope to post a brief Q&A with two of the conference organizers, my friends Rob and Kirstin, in the next [...]
Tags: calvincollege, culture, learning, music, reflection, reports
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Upcoming Event: Workshop to study the Belhar Confession
Wednesday, April 8th, 2009
From Christian Reformed Home Missions: Black & Reformed Urban Ministries – Justice Time: A workshop to study the Belhar Confession April 23-25, 2009 Location: Sherman Street CRC, Grand Rapids, MI Speakers: Rev. Morris Ledbetter – Associate Minister, Washingon D.C. Rev. Michelle Hughes – Chaplain, Elmhurst College, Elmhurst, IL. Rev. Tommy Moore – Pastor, Keystone Baptist [...]
Tags: BelharConfession, CRCNA, culture, diversity, justice
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Smithsonian magazine on the preservation of the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009
I clipped this article a few months ago from Smithsonian magazine on the struggle to preserve the Hagia Sophia, the 1,500-year-old worship space in Istanbul. The Hagia Sophia was the place of which, according to legend, Prince Vladmir’s representatives said after attending an Eastern Orthodox worship service, “We did not know whether we were in [...]
Tags: architecture, culture, eorthodoxy, HagiaSophia, history, space, world
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Response to 'Strike the Empire Back' at Catapult
Thursday, February 19th, 2009
I thought this was a very insightful response by David Koyzis to catapult’s issue on Christians and empire (which itself was very insightful): When I read catapult’s recent issue on empire, my response was admittedly one of ambivalence. Ambivalence, because, on the one hand, there is no doubt that evil works its way into political, [...]
Tags: culture, empire, government, Koyzis, politics, sin, theology, world, z00002
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Symposium presenter on 'Native America Calling'
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).
Tags: contextual, culture, Navajo, radio
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