Session Description
The Calvin Symposium on Worship and the Arts aims to bring together worship leaders and planners, pastors, artists, dramatists, and musicians from many church traditions to engage in worship, fellowship, learning, and discussion around preaching, drama, organ and piano music, worship planning, visual art, and congregational song.
The conference program is both ecumenical and Reformed, both principled and practical, both appreciative of a heritage and open to contemporary expression.
In fact, one of our main goals for the conference is to encourage a culture of ongoing learning. We hope that all of us will leave encouraged by what God is doing in congregations across North America and beyond, and with different and better questions to ask about our own worship practices–questions that focus our attention on worship's deepest purpose. We hope that the conference helps to answer down-to-earth, practical questions, but also gives all of us the opportunity to look at the gospel, the church, and the world through wide-angle lenses. Sessions about global worship practices, the history of worship, or about in-depth studies of particular biblical texts help deepen us in ways that ground our practical work. Overall, we hope the conference is roughly 75% practical, hands-on help and 25% perspective-giving, liberal-arts topics. We hope that this kind of approach is the natural outgrowth of our setting at a church-related, liberal-arts college.
Conference Title
2004 Calvin Symposium on Worship
Event Date
1-28-2004
Type (recording/text)
Text
Keywords:
program
Recommended Citation
"Program - Calvin Symposium on Worship and the Arts" (2004). Symposium on Worship Archive. 7.
https://digitalcommons.calvin.edu/uni-cicw-symposium/2004/allitems/7
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Program - Calvin Symposium on Worship and the Arts
The Calvin Symposium on Worship and the Arts aims to bring together worship leaders and planners, pastors, artists, dramatists, and musicians from many church traditions to engage in worship, fellowship, learning, and discussion around preaching, drama, organ and piano music, worship planning, visual art, and congregational song.
The conference program is both ecumenical and Reformed, both principled and practical, both appreciative of a heritage and open to contemporary expression.
In fact, one of our main goals for the conference is to encourage a culture of ongoing learning. We hope that all of us will leave encouraged by what God is doing in congregations across North America and beyond, and with different and better questions to ask about our own worship practices–questions that focus our attention on worship's deepest purpose. We hope that the conference helps to answer down-to-earth, practical questions, but also gives all of us the opportunity to look at the gospel, the church, and the world through wide-angle lenses. Sessions about global worship practices, the history of worship, or about in-depth studies of particular biblical texts help deepen us in ways that ground our practical work. Overall, we hope the conference is roughly 75% practical, hands-on help and 25% perspective-giving, liberal-arts topics. We hope that this kind of approach is the natural outgrowth of our setting at a church-related, liberal-arts college.