Public Worship and the Christian Life
A podcast produced by the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship. Learn more about our work at https://worship.calvin.edu/
Public Worship and the Christian Life
Latest Episodes
Nancy L. deClaissé-Walford on the Shape and Shaping of the Psalter
Old Testament scholar Nancy deClaissé-Walford has spent her career studying the ordering of the Psalter. Most of the psalms, she says, are not tied to a particular situation, allowing us to sing and pray them honestly in our own contexts.
Andrew Wilkes on Doing the Work of Liberation and Justice with the Psalms as Our Guide
Pastor-scholar Andrew Wilkes shares how his worshiping community, Double Love Experience Church, prayed and sang the psalms during the troubling times of 2020. The psalms gave them language and support for praise and lament, and Wilkes asserts ...
W. David O. Taylor on the Psalms and Praying the Unedited Life
Author and pastor-scholar David Taylor shares how he came to appreciate the psalms and how he encourages people to bring their full, unedited selves to God in prayer and experience a richer and more honest life of faith.
John Goldingay on the Psalms as Full of Theology and Straight Talking
John Goldingay, an Anglican priest and the senior professor of Old Testament at Fuller Theological Seminary, posits the psalms are the densest material in the entire Old Testament. They expound the nature of God as the compassionate, faithful,...
Vinroy D. Brown Jr. on Black Psalmody is for Everyone
Vinroy D. Brown Jr.—conductor, musicologist, educator, and minister of creative worship and music at the historic Abyssinian Baptist Church in New York City—explores the vibrant intersection of Black sacred music and the psalms. He talks about ...
