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Welcome and Plenary: Our Father in heaven...

91ÁÔÆæ/Plenary on Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.

May 25, 2022 | 1 min video
Teacher-Scholar Panel: Theological and Historical Reflection on 91ÁÔÆæ

Maria Cornou, moderator.

May 25, 2022 | 1 min video
Beyond the Life of the Project

As 2021 91ÁÔÆæing Communities grant recipients prepare to end the year-long grant project, we look forward to hearing about what grantees have learned throughout the grant year.

May 25, 2022 | 18 min video

Angela Williams Gorrell on the Gravity of Joy for Young People

Practical theologian Angela Williams Gorrell shares how experiencing life's challenges and sorrows is also an opportunity to share in its joy.

May 17, 2022 | 34 min listen
Benjamin T. Conner on Friendship and Hospitality that Embraces Youth with Developmental Disabilities

Practical theologian Benjamin T. Conner encourages and challenges congregations and pastors to reorient ministry with youth to fully include and amplifiy the witness of adolescents with developmental disabilities.

May 17, 2022 | 27 min listen
Amy Adamczyk on the Influence of Parents in the Religious Lives of Their Children

Sociologists Amy Adamczyk and Christian Smith co-authored the book "Handing Down the Faith: How Parents Pass Their Religion on to the Next Generation," which explores the research results of more than 200 interview with US parents exploring intergenerational transmission of religious faith and practice between the generations.

May 17, 2022

Sarah Farmer on Courageous Hope in Youth

Practical theologian Sarah F. Farmer offers four promising pathways for African American youth to strengthen capacity for hope infused with courage in the life of the church and community.

May 17, 2022 | 29 min listen
Empowering Children and Youth through Active Involvement 

In this conversation, Priscilla Rodriquez shares with Elizabeth Tamez Mendez about her worshiping community in Chicago which provides accessible leaders with a guiding presence so that early on children are encouraged to be creative and share their gifts as they grow up in the life of faith and the church. 

March 22, 2022 | 51 min video

Intergenerational Relationships in the 91ÁÔÆæing Community

In this conversation, pastor Ahnna Cho Park invites church communities to consider a Biblical concept of honor that embraces the imago Dei, breaks down cultural hierarchies between youth and adults, and welcomes all on a journey of intergenerational friendships and worship practices.

March 2, 2022 | 69 min video
Curiosity, Relationship-building, and Youth as Active Participants

In this conversation, Nicole Saint-Victor shares with Elizabeth Tamez Méndez her passion for nurturing relationships with youth and inviting them into intentional conversations and spaces even while sometimes disrupting established practices in order to provide multiple pathways for youth into Christian community, worship, and life together.

March 1, 2022 | 65 min video
Bilingual Choral Music: A Conversation with Maria Guinand.

International renowned choral conductor Maria Guinand shares practical tips for North American choirs in teaching and performing Latin and South American choral music.

February 9, 2022 | 53 min video