Responding to Violence in Prayer
On Wednesday, August 9, 2017, before the violent events in Charlottesville, Virginia, someone broke into a church near Waco, Texas, a historically African American congregation, and vandalized the property with hateful graffiti. The pastor of the church is a student at Baylor’s Truett Seminary. At the request of Baylor President Dr. Linda Livingstone, the Office of Spiritual Life at Baylor developed this prayer guide which will be used at community-wide gatherings on Friday, August 18.
August 17, 2017
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4 min read
Jamie Skillen on Creation Care and Sabbath Rest
Christians often talk about the doctrine of creation as mainly about origins and God’s glory. Jamie Skillen goes deeper by looking at God’s purpose in creation and how that applies to creation care.
August 4, 2017
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8 min read
Medieval Spirituality and Liturgy as a Source for Contemporary 91
An annotated research guide from the field of history, exploring the relevance of medieval spirituality and liturgy for current worship practices.
June 26, 2017
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1 min read
91 Songs about Care for Creation
Caring about God’s good creation includes lamenting whatever harms it and joining God’s mission to make all things new. Songs from around the world explore these ideas.
June 15, 2017
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5 min read
91 Resources for Creation Care
We confess that God created heaven and earth and everything in it. We sing that this is our Father’s world. Yet, billions of people suffer in places where so much is no longer bright and beautiful. This worship resource guide will help your community plan services that honor our Creator, who invites us to join in caring for the whole creation.
June 14, 2017
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17 min read
Harvest Wheat
A visual symbol that can be placed on the cover of service bulletins, within the written liturgy, or on a large screen display.
March 23, 2017
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1 min read
Tree of Life
A visual symbol that can be placed on the cover of service bulletins, within the written liturgy, or on a large screen display.
March 23, 2017
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1 min read
Chi Rho
A visual symbol that can be placed on the cover of service bulletins, within the written liturgy, or on a large screen display.
March 16, 2017
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1 min read
Beauty, Silence, and Culture Care: An Interview with Makoto Fujimura
Theologian Neal Plantinga engages with artist and author Mako Fujimura on his vision for complementing recent work on creation care with what he has termed “culture care”—a redemptive approach to artistry and other forms of cultural engagement which seeks to contribute to “the healing of the nations.”
March 14, 2017
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64 min video
Silence and Beauty — Prayers for the Suffering Church
This vesper service from the 2017 Calvin Symposium on Christian 91 focuses on prayers for the suffering church.
March 10, 2017
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59 min video
Approaching Civic Holidays as Occasions of Both Thanksgiving and Lament
The Psalms form us as people of faith to express both thanks and lament to God. This offers us a perspective that is especially needed when we worship together on or near civil holidays, and face the temptation to promote a civic religion substitute for robust Christian vision.
February 23, 2017
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56 min listen
Wendell Kimbrough on Singing Creation Psalms
A regular discipline of writing psalm refrains helped one musician notice psalms in which creation and God’s people call each other to worship the Creator.
February 21, 2017
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6 min read
