Upcoming Events
2025 Black Religious Autobiography Seminar
The office of Black Church Studies at Duke Divinity School is sponsoring a week-long seminar exploring the autobiographical writings of Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Howard Thurman, Ida B. Wells, and other Black autobiographers and memoirists who used their life stories as weapons in the quest for freedom and humanization.
Faith Formation in the Digital Age
An Application-Based Summer Seminar Directed by Felicia Wu Song
Loneliness: A Casualty of AI as Human Substitute
This public lecture with Felicia Wu Song highlights the impacts of AI on human interactions and how faith communities should respond.
Ministry in a Secular Age
An Application-Based Summer Seminar Directed by Andrew Root
The Waiting Church: How to Face the Crisis
It feels like the church is in an unquestioned crisis. But what is the shape of this crisis? And have we misunderstood it? Learn more in this public lecture with Andrew Root
Cultural Values in Ministry—October 2025
Developed in partnership with the 91 and the Calvin University School of Graduate and Continuing Studies, this online course equips worship planners and leaders of all types of ministries with practical tools for relating well to people from a variety of cultures. Understanding and respecting cultural differences is key to a healthy ministry.
Public 91 and Right Relations with Indigenous Communities
A conversation with Mike Hogeterp, Sarah Travis, and Kenny Wallace, hosted by Maria Eugenia Cornou. In this webinar session, each panelist will share about their ministry/scholarly work among and with Indigenous communities, followed by a time of moderated discussion and then questions from the audience.
Witnessing to the God of Life: Reformation Sunday 91 Service
Cultural Values and Life Together
An Awkward Marriage? Music and Language in 91
A week-long seminar led by Jeremy Begbie.
Why the Arts Matter in a Culture of Reductionism
An evening with Jeremy Begbie
Why Rituals? Exploring Our Inescapably Ritualized World and Faith
Why “do this in remembrance” and not just “think on these things”? The biblical world of rituals is thick, including the habits of daily life, treaties with gods and kings, and the calendar of Israel’s and Christianity’s worship. We are ritualed creatures, and the Scriptures uniquely claim that rituals yield skill, discernment, and the understanding necessary to serve in the kingdom of God.