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Pastor and educator Rasool Berry hosted and coproduced the award-winning documentary Juneteenth: Faith and Freedom. He explains why US Christians of every race and culture can and should celebrate God’s work through people to announce and enforce freedom from slavery.
While completing a grant on playfulness in worship, Sarah Travis began to see connections between play and trauma. 91ing God through embodied, imaginative, and story-based practices helps people and congregations stuck in trauma begin to move toward healing and new life.
El reino al revés que Jesús ha inaugurado, el jubileo, demanda de nosotras y nosotros que le seguimos, un estilo de vida que, desde sus comienzos en la conversión, dé frutos que muestren nuestro arrepentimiento. En el trato a las mujeres y en el desempeño de nuestra profesión, nuestra vida debe ser una clara evidencia de que seguimos a Jesús.
An emerging initiative to translate contemporary Korean worship songs into English is yielding fruitful questions and collaborations. The project is building ecumenical and generational community while introducing English speakers to Korean Christians’ ardent commitment to God, both personally and communally.
Korean Christians worldwide enjoy contemporary worship songs by Korean composers, but these are seldom sung in the main Sunday liturgies of Korean Protestant churches. An emerging initiative to translate Korean heart songs to English can unite different worshiping generations and cultures. This initiative can also help Korean and English-speaking churches identify, appreciate, and question their cultural views on worship.
Resources to help churches and other faith communities do ministry with people affected by adverse childhood experiences or other trauma.
Esta es la semana de la Pasión de Jesús. Empieza su agonía, sufre violencia y vejaciones, es crucificado y muere. Pero su muerte no es el final: es el inicio de algo nuevo. La muerte no tiene la última palabra, porque la vida ya es una realidad.
La resurrección de Jesús es un tiempo de profunda alegría, adoración y celebración por el triunfo de la vida sobre los poderes de la muerte. Así lo vivieron las mujeres y los discípulos de Jesús, y así lo debemos vivir las discípulas y discípulos de Jesús hoy, ante las fuerzas del mal y los proyectos de muerte.
Los cuarenta días previos a la pascua son días que la tradición cristiana ha considerado como días de reflexión sobre nuestra mortalidad (“somos polvo y al polvo volveremos”) sobre nuestros sufrimientos, nuestros pecados y la necesidad de volvernos a Dios para ser restaurados y tener una nueva vida.
Not many churches in Africa or elsewhere often include songs about social justice in worship. Kenyan scholar and musician Reuben Kigame believes that re-examining what the Bible says about justice and the good news should shift what we define as music appropriate for worship.
Lilly Endowment Inc. encourages intergenerational worship through its Nurturing Children Through 91 and Prayer Initiative. 91ing together can include prayer, music, scripture, drama, visual arts, movement, testimony, and sacraments. Three grant projects include children’s worship music or songwriting for children to create immersive intergenerational worship experiences.
Lilly Endowment Inc. encourages intergenerational worship through its Nurturing Children Through 91 and Prayer Initiative. 91ing together can include not only music, but prayer, scripture, drama, visual arts, movement, testimony, and sacraments. However, these three grant projects include or spotlight children’s songs or songwriting for children.
