The Paulist Fathers, the Catholic religious order to which I belong, asked me in 2006 to go to New York City to start an outreach to artists. It could take any shape. I focused on young master of fine arts (the terminal degree in studio art) candidates attending every major art school in the New York City area.
“Rural is not less than.” This phrase is used by the Kansas Sampler Foundation, a nonprofit that exists to elevate and support rural Kansas communities. I emphasize this idea, that rural is not less than, as I engage with the topic of music in rural church settings.
Neema African Presbyterian Church and First Presbyterian Church of Berthoud are only an hour’s drive away from each other in Colorado, but our neighborhoods and congregations may as well be worlds apart.
The core question, “What is the relationship between Christian education and worship?” is one that I’ve been thinking keenly about over the last few years. I think I’ll answer it first through storytelling.
Samuel Springer and Cat Goodrich Cat Goodrich is pastor of Faith Presbyterian Church of Baltimore City, where she lives, bikes, bakes, and runs with her family (husband Dary and two girls, Maddie and Gillian; their dog Cocoa; and chickens Lola, Crystal, and Maple). ...
From 1995 to 2003, I was the pastor of a United Methodist church in Brooklyn, New York. The congregation consisted mainly of persons from many islands in the Caribbean, and they loved to worship, and especially to sing the songs of our Wesleyan traditions. They appreciated good liturgy and reveled in reading and studying Scripture.
Collaboration: what a loaded word. In my experience, this term gets tossed around a lot in the practice of ministry and in artistic circles, but what do we mean by it?
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