The Body explores how individuals are joined with the body of Christ through baptism and how the idea of community is essential to the worship experience, including: • What early church documents and ...
Five hundred years after Martin Luther and a colleague published their first hymnal, Princeton Theological Seminary Professor Emeritus Paul Rorem has written a book that provides what his publisher ...
Bright piano music and warm, powerful voices echoed from the doors of Asbury United Methodist Church on Monday evening. Inside, a small line of congregation members closed their eyes, swayed back and ...
Those of us steeped in church life often take churchy things for granted. For me, one of those things is worship. Growing up, it never occurred to me to ask why I had to worship God; worship was ...
What is worship? Our English word comes from the Anglo-Saxon weorthscipe, which means “to honor” or “to ascribe worth.” It is interesting that, in this regard, the Book of Common Prayer, 1662, ...
Do we attend worship … or do we ache for it?
Every Black Christian worshiper has heard this phrase at one time or another: “Oh, you can do better than that.” It’s often said in reference to the vim and vigor of the phrases of praise offered by ...