For many years Coral Ridge had two very distinct worship services – one contemporary and one traditional. The result was the unintentional development of two different churches under one roof. It wasn’t healthy. So back at the end of Spring we started talking about what we could do to unify our one large church.
Archive for category Protestant Worship
Could emphasizing the importance of certain seasons and celebrating them with higher quality services actually be lowering average attendance in liturgical denominations?
A Plea to the Publishers
Apr 19
In the wake of the third typical edition of the Missale Romanum and Liturgiam Authenticam all of the major music publishing houses associated with the Roman Catholic Church put a freeze on the publication of new settings of the Ordinary of the Mass. Recently, publishers have been announcing their plans for new music for the new translations, which collectively amount to a combination solution of re-tooling and re-fitting of old favorites plus introducing new compositions. [MORE...]
Calvin Symposium on Worship
Feb 10
Great things continue to happen at Calvin. The 23rd annual Symposium on Worship, sponsored by the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship and the Center for Excellence in Preaching at Calvin Theological Seminary, took place January 28-30 at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. It was a huge success! With 1,500 attendees, including 160 overseas international guests from 39 countries, the symposium was larger than 2009 and 2008. Thirty “book group” leaders attended, representing 30 groups (250 readers) from [MORE...]
A Sportive Spirituality?
Feb 4
While I lived at Taizé, we never used the term “spirituality” to talk about what we were doing in prayer or in our witness as a community. In an early writing, frère Roger did speak about a “sportive spirituality” (Vivre l’aujourd’hui de Dieu, Les Presses de Taizé, 1964) that inhabited the community’s life but this expression never really caught on in subsequent literature or self-understanding of the community. I’m not a fan of the term, [MORE...]
On Praying for Enemies
Jan 18
As I walked the airport hallways this Christmas traveling to and from family gatherings, I passed lots of soldiers in uniform. Some were no doubt soon headed to our active fronts in the ‘war on terror’ in Iraq and Afghanistan, especially with President Obama’s call late last year for a large increase of troops in Afghanistan. As I passed these soldiers, I found myself praying for them and for the complex and difficult circumstance they [MORE...]