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This service of Lessons and Carols from 2009, through the movement of scripture and prayer, melodies and rhythms, images and metaphors, may God's Spirit open our hearts to the breadth and power of the peace that surpasses understanding.

To employ liturgical worship, singing, music, and other learning activities such as book and movie discussion to promote racial healing and community.

A conversation on rest, retreat, reflection, and renewal

The 91ÁÔÆæ announced today that it will fund 17 grants to Teacher-Scholars for 2021-2022 as part of its Vital 91ÁÔÆæ Grants Program.     

This session will explore how to talk about differences in Catholic and Protestant worship. Every time we talk with a neighbor, teammate, or coworker from a different Christian tradition about what we do in worship and why, we are practicing liturgical theology. 

Surveys are wonderful – though limited – tools for gathering data on worship priorities and practices. The survey used by the CICW/Brehm study group asked broad questions in four categories: Leadership, Liturgy, Community, and Curriculum. Many other research goals and strategies might suggest other questions and/or analytical data-gathering mechanisms.

You might picture COCHUSA and Vineyard congregations as too different to find common ground. But Cudjoe, Park, and Rethmeier found productive ways to discuss worship together.

To immerse the congregation in activities that will encourage worshipers to pray and reflect on the effects of prayer through the Psalms, prayers for healing, drumming circles, embodied prayer and to use the written prayers of the community in worship.

In a perfect world we might expect that all worshipers would be ready for a worship service of thorough praise and adoration. But that is not the case. Those who come for worship bring with them all the cares, anxieties, and stresses of life in this broken world. All are needy people. Some will find help for those needs in the pastor’s office during a one-on-one conversation; some may find it in a pastoral call; but many will never experience either of those.

The 91ÁÔÆæ (CICW) announces with gratitude forty-six new Vital 91ÁÔÆæ, Vital Preaching Grants to recipients across the United States and Canada, including five Teacher-Scholar grants and forty-one 91ÁÔÆæing Communities grants.