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Kai Ton Chau on Love of Learning and 91 Leader Well-Being

Scholar Kai Ton Chau makes the case that churches should support worship leaders by giving them opportunities to learn and grow in their jobs.

September 30, 2025 | 6 min read
Sunday Formation for the Monday Priesthood

The last few minutes of corporate worship are critical because they frame the entire purpose of worship and its connection to our lives in the world.  

September 9, 2025 | 1 min video
Mark Franzen on Experiencing God through Sacred Music

A sacred music grant project helped Catholic parishioners from many ethnicities—Anglo, Eritrean, Filipino, Latino, Nigerian, Vietnamese, and more—experience the awe and mystery of faith and God. 

August 29, 2025 | 9 min read

A Snapshot of Illness, Pain, and Healing in Early Christianity

How did early Christians understand their illness and pain in their Greco-Roman context?

August 27, 2025 | 65 min video
Contextual Stories from Hispanic 91ing Communities

Pastors of three Hispanic churches will share what they learned from experiences implementing congregational projects related to the development of new understandings and practices of worship and preaching.

August 27, 2025 | 59 min video
Public 91, Wealth, and Poverty in Early Christianity 

Explore how Christians in the earliest centuries of Christianity engaged topics related to wealth and poverty in their preaching, public prayers, offerings, celebrations of baptism and the Lord’s Supper, and the shaping of buildings and spaces for Christian worship. 

August 27, 2025 | 63 min video

Culturally Responsive, Trauma-Informed 91

In today’s diverse and interconnected world, understanding and addressing trauma through a culturally responsive lens is essential for creating inclusive and healing worship experiences. 

August 11, 2025 | 60 min video
Cultivating the Creative Life

What is creativity, and why do we still need to talk about it? Join Sandra McCracken in a conversation on faith, imagination, and creativity. 

August 5, 2025 | 62 min video

Sunggu A. Yang on the Arts and Preaching

Intra-dynamic preaching is a new mode of preaching that promises to immerse people in God’s living word. It uses the form and language of specific art types to design sermons that resonate in people’s heads, hearts, imaginations, and bodies. Sunggu A. Yang edited a practical handbook to help preachers encounter God in scripture and aesthetically recreate that experience for listeners. 

July 31, 2025 | 8 min read
Preaching and Soul Care (For Preachers and Their Hearers)

In a world generically “spiritual,” how does a preacher tend to the highest calling of the pastoral life: the tending of souls?

July 29, 2025 | 44 min video