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October 2022

October 26, 2022

Worship in the Metaverse

Lutheran pastor and media scholar Trevor Sutton discusses the efforts of some churches to hold...

October 07, 2022

“Everybody Worships”

A book on "wellness" as a new religion quotes the late contemporary novelist David Foster...

August 2021

August 11, 2021

The Advantage of Using Hymnals

Worshipping with a hymnal has many advantages over projecting praise songs over a screen. And...

March 2020

March 03, 2020

Listen to Music as It Sounded in the Hagia Sophia 500 Years Ago

Science and the arts have worked together to recreate what music would have sounded like...

July 2018

July 11, 2018

The Problem with Offering Multiple Worship Styles

Does your church offer multiple worship services, each with a different style? One traditional, one...

November 2017

November 06, 2017

95 Theses on Worship

In the spirit of the Reformation, my fellow Patheos blogger and church musician Jonathan Aigner...

October 2017

October 23, 2017

Liturgy in the Bible/The Bible in the Liturgy

Contrary to what some people say, there is liturgy in the Bible. Moreover, the Bible...

January 2017

January 19, 2017

Discovering a different way of doing youth ministry

Most youth ministries are shallow at best, and youth worship is even worse. An evangelical...

October 2016

October 06, 2016

“Liturgy shaming” for “liturgical abuse”

Many Catholics are indulging in "liturgy shaming" as a response to "liturgical abuse." That is, they...

October 09, 2015

The numinous in religious experience

A couple of years ago, I blogged about the Numinous, that sense of uncanny awe...

May 2015

May 18, 2015

How a contemporary sees contemporary worship

Robert Burns prayed for the power "To see ourselves as others see us!" (To a ...

May 05, 2015

“The sacraments are what make the church relevant”

Yesterday we blogged about Rachel Held Evan's contention that church growth techniques designed to reach...

April 2015

April 28, 2015

Worship is more than praising God

Pastor Mark Schroeder cites a rather compelling quotation on worship from Klemet Preus: “If the...

January 2015

January 09, 2015

The offering Christ wants from us

The Wise Men gave Christ gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh. What gift do you...

November 2014

November 13, 2014

Church design that appeal to Millennials

The Christian pollsters and research company the Barna Group has researched what kind of church...

August 2014

August 04, 2014

Nonliturgical liturgy

All Christians, including "non-liturgical" Christians, worship with a liturgy, in the sense of a predictable...

May 2014

May 09, 2014

How worship services have changed since 2000

LifeWay CEO Thom S. Rainer cites the findings of the National Congregations Study from Duke...

January 2014

January 17, 2014

The Millennials’ longing for liturgy & sacraments

Congregations that want to attract the millennial generation are now being told to ditch their...

December 2013

December 04, 2013

Charismatic sacrament, charismatic liturgy

Charismatic Christians consider "praise and worship songs" to be, in effect, sacramental, bringing worshippers into...

September 2013

September 19, 2013

Baptists embracing the liturgy

A growing number of Baptists are turning to liturgical worship. So says the Associated Baptist...

September 13, 2013

Bringing back the Psalms

I'm no fan of N. T. Wright's "new perspective on Paul" stuff, but his new...

June 2013

June 24, 2013

Liturgical Baptists

A principle of the evangelical church growth movement is that worship should change to reflect...

March 2013

March 18, 2013

Have an unglorious Passiontide

This is the week before Holy Week, a part of the church year known as...

May 2012

May 23, 2012

Auden on modern liturgies

A letter from the late poet W. H. Auden to his pastor, on the occasion...

January 2012

January 20, 2012

With the liturgy, “you never need words for joy”

Rev. Samuel Schuldheisz points us to the role of the liturgy--including the Psalms and the...

December 2011

December 23, 2011

Keep the “mass” in Christmas

Last time Christmas fell on Sunday it came out that a number of churches had...

November 2011

November 14, 2011

Snake handling

Julia Duin is a Christian journalist who is a real pro. She has a long...

September 2011

September 29, 2011

Anglican worship wars

One of my former students, Bart Gingerich, who sometimes comments on this blog, has gotten...

September 17, 2010

The Collect & Bible readings

More from Narrative Commentary on the Divine Service by John Pless. Notice how we hear...

September 14, 2010

Teaching worship

Last Sunday our Pastor, Rev. James Douthwaite, did something he does once a year or...