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Session Description
Wardell and Higgins will describe leading worship in the contexts of their worship services in St. Louis and Charlottesville and explore how using the psalms can help people bring their whole lives into worship. They’ll discuss how the psalms give voice to lament for violence in our communities, emotional trauma, and words of life for our rejoicing. We’ll spend time both discussing the psalms and singing psalms together.
Conference Title
2020 Calvin Symposium on Worship
Event Date
1-31-2020
Event Type
Panel/Conversation
Type (recording/text)
Recording
Subject Area
Worship
Topic
Culturally-Contextual Worship
Keywords:
Worship, Psalm Singing, Emotions, Rejoicing, Lamentation
Recommended Citation
Higgins, Michelle and Wardell, Isaac, "Psalm Singing and Bringing Our Whole Emotional Lives into Worship" (2020). Symposium on Worship Archive. 7.
https://digitalcommons.calvin.edu/uni-cicw-symposium/2020/allitems/7
Psalm Singing and Bringing Our Whole Emotional Lives into Worship
Wardell and Higgins will describe leading worship in the contexts of their worship services in St. Louis and Charlottesville and explore how using the psalms can help people bring their whole lives into worship. They’ll discuss how the psalms give voice to lament for violence in our communities, emotional trauma, and words of life for our rejoicing. We’ll spend time both discussing the psalms and singing psalms together.