Jerusalem and Israel are a constant in our liturgy and ritual. When a child is born, at a wedding, even at burial, Jerusalem and Israel are present. In the Birkat Hamazon, for every meal and in the daily prayers for rain or dew, Israel is present. What part does Israel play in our daily lives dwelling outside the land?
Presenters: Joan Glazer Farber and Rabbi Daniel Allen
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Close Encounters of the Worshipful Kind: Ways to E-value-ate Your Worship (Practical Resources for Churches)
Dr. Marcia McFee has been consulting with churches for 20 years on revitalizing their worship. For Marcia, to “evaluate” our worship is to find out what we “value” so we can have more of it. Learn ways to evaluate without the dreaded survey! She will share the top 5 things that most churches can do to enhance their worship right away–no matter the size of church or style of worship.
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Worship Can Be Meaningful for All the Generations (Practical Resources for Churches)
This on-demand webinar proposes churches to rethink children in worship and find ways to create meaningful worship inclusive of all the generations.
Leader: Ivy Beckwith
Ivy Beckwith is a Faith Formation Team Leader for the United Church of Christ. She is a speaker, consultant, and author of “Children’s Ministry in the Way of Jesus” (with David Csinos), “Postmodern Children’s Ministry,” “The Ultimate Survival Guide for Children’s Ministry Workers,” and “Formational Children’s Ministry.” Ivy grew up in Guilford, Connecticut, about 90 miles outside of Manhattan. She holds a BA in English, a Masters of Religious Education, and a PhD in Religious Education and has held educational positions in churches in both the Midwest and on the East Coast.
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How to Make Your Worship Service More Engaging for All Ages (Practical Resources for Churches)
This on demand webinar will have a special focus on inter-generational worship and incorporating interactive elements into existing worship services.
Karen Ware Jackson is a dynamic pastor leading worship accessible for all ages at Faith Presbyterian Church, a small but mighty congregation in Greensboro, NC. As the mother of two preschoolers who worship front and center, she knows firsthand the joys and challenges of parenting a child through an entire service while leading an inter-generational congregation. She blogs about parenting, pastoring, and engaging all ages in worship at www karenwarejackson.com.
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Quick & Dirty Intro to Live Streaming Worship (Practical Resources for Churches)
Discussion in this will includes necessary hardware, hospitality issues (including chat rooms), and whether to upload print content. Christopher Harris also highlights real examples of churches successfully live streaming, and the technical and messaging issues they had to work through.
Born a geek, Christopher Harris coded his first church website in 1997. In 2003 he entered Seminary, concluding his M.Div studies just as social media reached a tipping point when Facebook opened its site to the public. Via his company, Faith Growth, Christopher and his team help churches move to a digital-first mindset, whether helping to develop a new website, implement smart social media practices, or develop a comprehensive plan to effectively engage and grow church communities online.
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The Great Works of Sacred Music (The Great Courses)
The first music schools in Europe were associated with the Catholic Church. Originally, the Church commissioned music, as composers and the clergy used the power of music to exalt God. The lineage of sacred works not only forms a glorious tradition within Western music, but also ultimately produced some of the greatest masterpieces in Western art, and created the foundation of the Western musical canon as we now know it. This phenomenal tradition includes works of genius such as:
- Josquin des Prez’s Ave Maria, gratia plena, an exquisite polyphonic motet, and one of the first masterworks of sacred music;
- Claudio Monteverdi’s Vespro della Beata Virgini, whose vocal pyrotechnics evoke the immensity of heaven;
- Mozart’s Requiem, the final composition of the Classical master, and a work of astonishing dramatic power;
- Mendelssohn’s Elijah, a remarkable distillation of the history of the oratorio, and a grand vision of what the oratorio might become; and
- Faure’s Requiem, a deliberately anti-monumental work, written as a quiet expression of individual wonder.
In The Great Works of Sacred Music, you’ll study these extraordinary creations and many more, taking in a rich panorama of Western sacred music and its most magnificent artistic landmarks. Studying the milestone works in this tradition not only introduces you to a repertoire and a legacy of extraordinary musical greatness, but also provides a vivid and essential view of how Western music came to be. As you’ll discover, many of the forms and structures that underlie all of Western music, as well as many of the compositional techniques through which music conveys meaning, were pioneered by composers of sacred music.
Studying the great sacred works also shows you how the musical components of Christian ritual developed, illustrates the interplay between music and Christian worship, and reveals how music’s unique capacities have been used to amplify the meaning and significance of religious texts.
Finally, the lineage of sacred music includes major masterworks of Bach, Handel, Haydn, Beethoven, Brahms, Elgar, and many others. Exploring these works within the context of their creation shows how sacred musical expression fits together as a tradition, and forms a beloved and hugely meaningful current within Western art.
Speaking to all of these matters and more in The Great Works of Sacred Music, Professor Charles McGuire of the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music takes you on a deep dive into the history and evolution of sacred music in the West. Professor McGuire, a celebrated musicologist with a richly detailed knowledge of this tradition, fills these 16 engrossing lectures with essential insights and stunning musical excerpts, covering over 1,200 years of music, from medieval chant to the massive sacred works of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. An accomplished musician himself, Professor McGuire sings excerpts and examples for you throughout the course. This is music for the religious and the non-religious person alike—a tradition of compelling universality, beauty, and humanity in art.
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Intergenerational Worship (United Church of Canada)
At its worst, intergenerational services become a congregation’s way to showcase their young people. At its best intergenerational services create transformational experience that people of different cultures can share together.
This webinar defines intergenerational services as intercultural worship spaces, where each generation brings and shares their own cultural learning to the corporal experience. With this understanding, we will explore ways of creating cross-culture experiences in worship that attempt to connect generational gaps. We will explore ways of honouring and respecting this cultural diversity by becoming more aware of the common developmental stages and cultural trends of different age groups within the worshiping community and discussing how this knowledge can be applied to creating meaningful and engaging worship experiences.
Presenter: Alydia Smith
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Worship for All Ages: Ideas for Lent and Easter (Practical Resources for Churches)
Join us as we share ideas for new worship experiences and ways to make our time-honored traditions more meaningful and accessible.
Karen Ware Jackson is a dynamic pastor leading worship accessible for all ages at Faith Presbyterian Church, a small but mighty congregation in Greensboro, NC. As the mother of two preschoolers who worship front and center, she knows firsthand the joys and challenges of parenting a child through an entire service while leading an inter-generational congregation. She blogs about parenting, pastoring, and engaging all ages in worship at www karenwarejackson.com.
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Lent Webinar 2016 with Marcia McFee (Worship Design Studio)
Source: Worshipo Design Studio
0:00 Introduction
4:00 The Lent Season – discerning your context
8:00 The Lent Season – human yearning
10:45 The History of the development of the Lent Season
19:20 Theological Themes of the Lent Season
24:00 The Revised Common Lectionary
31:00 Marcia’s RCL Year C series – “The Way”
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33:54 The Narrative Lectionary Year 2
39:15 A Bit of Theory: Symbols
42:22 Creating a Palette for the Season
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45:35 Ritual Action
47:36 Lots of Series Ideas from the Worship Design Studio
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1:04:00 Conclusion
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Unity Prayer (Unity Church)
Affirmative meditative prayer is at the heart of the Unity spiritual path. The Unity way of prayer is ultimately aimed at experience of the Divine and Realization of the practitioner’s Divine Potential. Along the way there are practical benefits, including guidance, healing and abundance. In this course, students are introduced to Unity’s Five Step Prayer Process and supported in developing their daily prayer practice.
Instructor: Patrick McAndrew
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