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    Apply for the Vital 91ÁÔÆæ, Vital Preaching Grants Program to support and enhance Christian worship practices. We encourage proposals on universal design, cultural engagement, preaching, baptism, the Lord’s Supper, and more. Two grant streams are available.

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    Apply for the 91ÁÔÆæing Communities Grant to support and enhance worship practices within your community. Proposals for diverse and innovative worship initiatives are welcome.

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    Apply for the Teacher Scholar Grant to support innovative research and teaching in Christian worship. Proposals from educators and scholars are welcome.

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    Apply for the 91ÁÔÆæing Communities Grant to support and enhance worship practices within your community. Proposals for diverse and innovative worship initiatives are welcome.

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    2025 Black Religious Autobiography Seminar
    The office of Black Church Studies at Duke Divinity School is sponsoring a week-long seminar exploring the autobiographical writings of Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Howard Thurman, Ida B. Wells, and other Black autobiographers and memoirists who used their life stories as weapons in the quest for freedom and humanization. 
    July 19 - 26, 2025
    Durham
    , 
    North Carolina
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    The 91ÁÔÆæ at Calvin University and Calvin Theological Seminary advances Christian worship through resources, events, and grants. Since 1997, we have partnered with congregations and organizations to fulfill our mission.

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Article Cultural Diversity

Multilingual 91ÁÔÆæ: How to include many languages

Learn why and how congregations are using multiple languages in the same worship services—rather than having each cultural group worship alone in its own language.
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Video Psalms/Scripture Planning 91ÁÔÆæ

91ÁÔÆæ Service: Psalm 8

This service of Psalm 8, Who Are You? Who Are We?, was part of the Calvin Symposium on 91ÁÔÆæ 2012. The music was led by Isaac Wardell, liturgy by Aminah Bradford, and preaching by Mark Labberton.
Video Theology Planning 91ÁÔÆæ Pastoral Care

Silence and Beauty — Prayers for the Suffering Church

This vesper service from the 2017 Calvin Symposium on Christian 91ÁÔÆæ focuses on prayers for the suffering church.
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Video Cultural Diversity

Beyond the Bamboo Curtain: New Asian Songs for 91ÁÔÆæ

This singing and conversational session introduced new Asian songs collected in recent years along with their background stories and how these might be used in the context of worship. Presented by Swee Hong Lim, I-to Loh, Joel Navarro and others at the 2013 Calvin Symposium on 91ÁÔÆæ.
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Technology in 91ÁÔÆæ: Insights from Congregational 91ÁÔÆæ Leaders

A handout gathered at the 2005 Calvin Symposium on 91ÁÔÆæ.
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Video Psalms/Scripture

The Psalm Project in Concert

A free concert at the Calvin Chapel, this prelude to the 2012 Calvin Symposium on 91ÁÔÆæ featured The Psalm Project, a group of musicians from the Netherlands who have taken Genevan Psalm tunes from the 1500s and updated them with arrangements for piano, guitar, and strings.
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Audio Cultural Diversity Justice/Reconciliation Theology

Just 91ÁÔÆæ

We listen to the cry of the prophet Isaiah, voicing God's call to God's people regarding the true nature of worship and the inextricable bond between our relationship with God and our relationship with one another, and particularly with the most downtrodden among us.
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Martin Tel on Psalms for all Seasons

Martin Tel is C. F. Seabrook Director of Music at Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton, New Jersey. Here he talks about the forthcoming Psalms for All Seasons: A Complete Psalter for 91ÁÔÆæ, which is one of the most comprehensive resources ever published on using the Psalms in Christian worship. Tel collaborated with Joyce Borger and John D. Witvliet on this psalter.
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Article Leadership Intergenerational

Preparing Students to Become Lead 91ÁÔÆæers

A glimpse into the training involved to prepare students to lead worship.
Video Planning 91ÁÔÆæ Psalms/Scripture

Communion Service: Psalm 103

Abounding in Steadfast Love, Psalm 103, was part of the Calvin Symposium on 91ÁÔÆæ 2012. This service was a celebration of word and sacrament with Thomas G. Long, Martha Moore-Keish, and Stanley Mast.
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On the campus of Calvin University and Calvin Theological Seminary

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