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A series of welcome videos explaining the online format for this year's Symposium.

There is a deep division between worship and work in the modern world. What can worship leaders do about it? Part of the 2021 Online Calvin Symposium on Worship.

Can worship practices help heal our broken relationship with the more-than-human creation? How might lament, gratitude, the sacraments, and embodied actions reanimate our love for God’s world? This conversation with Katharine Hayhoe and Debra Rienstra is part of the 2021 online Calvin Symposium on Worship.

This is an on-demand panel discussion video for the 2021 Online Calvin Symposium on Worship. The panelists discuss the values and practices that sustain people for the work of ministry and the Christian life.

A conversation with Christina Edmondson and John Witvliet about faithful anti-racism and the Christian life as part of the Online Calvin Symposium on Worship.

In this conversation, Célestin Musekura and Satrina Reid engage the topic of forgiveness and its role in the worshiping community, exploring how forgiveness and reconciliation affects our witness to the world.

This is a panel discussion on the complexities of modern-day church planting as part of the 2021 Online Calvin Symposium on Worship.

A crowd-sourced collection of Psalm interpretations in different artistic forms from worshiping communities across the spectrum of Christian traditions.

This is an On-Demand Panel Discussion Video for the 2021 Online Calvin Symposium on Worship. The panelists discuss how leaders can engage sensitive issues in healthy ways while planning and leading worship in multicultural contexts.

A 60-minute documentary film followed by a 60-minute Q&A time, hosted by David M. Bailey, executive director of Arrabon.

A conversation on leadership in pandemic times with Andy Crouch and Kathy Smith. Part of the 2021 online Calvin Symposium on Worship.

This is an on-demand panel discussion video for the 2021 Online Calvin Symposium on Worship. The panelists discuss what we can learn about worship from the early church and how this learning can help us shape faithful public worship practices today.

This is the opening worship service for the 2021 Online Calvin Symposium on Worship led by institute staff. 

This is an on-demand panel discussion video for the 2021 Online Calvin Symposium on Worship. The panelists discuss what we can learn about resurrection―both Jesus’s and our own―by preaching and writing songs about resurrection texts and themes.

A discussion of the relationship between worship and theology in the early church, and what this means for us today.

This is an on-demand panel discussion video for the 2021 Online Calvin Symposium on Worship. The panelists discuss wisdom about public worship and the Christian life during 2020 and ways to be the body of Christ virtually that we can carry forward.

A panel of Calvin students with varying church and leadership church experiences will share how their participation in the local church has deepened their love for the Church as the body of Christ. Part of the 2021 online Calvin Symposium on Worship.

This interactive session is for all college and university students and invites young leaders to voice the role of church in today’s context, and then to explore how their leadership in the church is essential.

What are the basics that every worship planner and leader should know? Come find out by listening to the Calvin University Worship Apprentices as they share key insights and practices learned through serving in worship during the fall of 2020.

This worship services is a part of the 2021 Online Calvin Symposium on Worship. It takes place at Holy Trinity Rathmines Church in Dublin, Ireland.

This worship services is a part of the 2021 Online Calvin Symposium on Worship. It is based on Romans 8.

This worship services is a part of the 2021 Online Calvin Symposium on Worship. It is led by Anabas Ministry in Hong Kong.

This worship services is a part of the 2021 Online Calvin Symposium on Worship. It is led by Baylor University in Waco, Texas.

This worship services is a part of the 2021 Online Calvin Symposium on Worship. It is led by Calvin University in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

This worship services is a part of the 2021 Online Calvin Symposium on Worship. It is led by Dordt University in Sioux Center, Iowa.

This worship services is a part of the 2021 Online Calvin Symposium on Worship. It is led by Duke University Chapel in Durham, North Carolina on Romans 8:31-38.

This worship services is a part of the 2021 Online Calvin Symposium on Worship. It is led by Fuller Seminary in Pasadena, California.

This service takes place at Heliopolis Evangelical Church in Cairo, Egypt. It is a service of the word based on Romans 8:14-17. To listen to the sermon from this service in Arabic, use this link: https://youtu.be/uU1jrB0bDcc?si=3UabeVcHhDh9_LjC

This worship services is a part of the 2021 Online Calvin Symposium on Worship. This service takes place in Atlanta, Georgia. It is a service of the word based on Ephesians 6:10-18.

This service takes place at Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton, New Jersey. It is a service of the word based on Romans 8:26-30.

This worship services is a part of the 2021 Online Calvin Symposium on Worship. It is led by members of Proskuneo, a multi-cultural worshiping community located in Clarkston, Georgia.

This worship services is a part of the 2021 Online Calvin Symposium on Worship. This service is led by Sandra McCracken and Tim Nicholson in Nashville, Tennessee.

This worship services is a part of the 2021 Online Calvin Symposium on Worship. It is led by Singapore Bible College in Singapore.

This worship services is a part of the 2021 Online Calvin Symposium on Worship. This service takes place in Brazil and is led by worship leaders from many different congregations and denominations.

This worship services is a part of the 2021 Online Calvin Symposium on Worship. It is led by Najla Kassab in Beirut, Lebanon and many others from around the world.

This worship services is a part of the 2021 Online Calvin Symposium on Worship. It is led by Tony Alonso in Atlanta, Georgia and friends from Chicago, Illinois; Los Angeles, California; Omagh, UK; Maghera, UK; and Woodbury, Minnesota. It is an Evening Prayer for any time of the day.