Concluding Address: Culture and Worship, Once More

(Excerpt) The organizing principle I needed to pull together the events of this week became clear quite early in the institute. It became clear because of the great wisdom of the people who attended my discussion session after the opening keynote. They raised some critical issues and pulled many things into the dialectical tensions of which, for lack of time, I had been able to explicate only one side. In response, I found myself again and again saying, This gets us back to the necessity for community, doesn\u27t it? All of the worship issues, especially the wars, arise because our churches are not genuine communities

Culture: Around, Against, In the Church\u27s Worship

(Excerpt) Two weeks ago a Canadian Broadcasting producer in Montreal telephoned me. She had heard of my book, Reaching Out without Dumbing Down, from a few pastors and wanted to know the main points of my approach, because she was preparing a program for Easter to focus on what congregations could do to attract Canadians to worship

Asking New and Old Questions As We Remember the Future

(Excerpt) Let me explain my title, Asking New and Old Questions as We Remember the Future. Because my training is in biblical ethics, my approach to various worship concerns centers on asking questions (the proper work of ethics) about how our worship practices form us to be God\u27s people. If we are interested at this conference in what our eschatological tradition has to say to issues of worship, then we will discover the more new questions we ask, the more they will drive us back to the old ones. Indeed, there is nothing new under the sun. Always, throughout human history, we have been strung between the times, between who we have been formed to be by our past and what we might become, especially if we consciously and deliberately orient our present toward the future. Moreover, since the resurrection, which provides the ultimate definition of our Christian faith and life, God\u27s people have always lived-whether we realize it or not -in the midst of the tension of already, but not yet

What needs to be resisted (Video)

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Resistance by formation (Video)

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Reformation (Video)

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Music and Worship for Holy Week and Easter: Resistance to the Empire

Workshop by Marva Dawn, held at Lancaster Theological Seminary, Santee Chapel, April 2, 2011, 9:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Lecture Series - Worship Through the Seasons of the Year (made possible by a grant from the Calvin Institute of Worship). Smaller sections of the lecture are missing as length exceeded technical limits of our equipment. Two digital audio recordings (mp3); the first file streams, the second file is available through the link below. Duration of streaming file: 1 hour, 7 minutes. Duration of second file: 1 hour, 20 minutes

Reaching out without dumbing down. : A theology of worship for the turn-of-the century culture.

Grand Rapidsxi, 316 p.; 23 cm