ADORATE (Worship)

It is, frankly, outside the original intent of the blog to devote time to a doctrine like the Rapture.  It is certainly not directly related...

Human lives are marked out and segmented through ceremony and ritual.  This is as true for the non-religious as the faithful.  It is roote...

In the early years of the twentieth century, missionaries from the British “Brethren,” came into central and southern Africa.   Here, the...

This is definitely  not  how early  Christians experienced the Word  It is no surprise that the cultures that were basking in the glow ...

Do we even know what the New Testament means by "the gospel?"  I'm not so sure. Do we even know what the New Testament means...

Esther is a great story of redemption - one that comes about in a great crisis forced upon Esther. But, we often re-tell it as a Christian...

The news of twenty-one Coptic Christians beheaded on a Libyan beach by Islamic radicals proclaiming their allegiance to ISIS is heartbreaki...

While criticism of contemporary worship music is sometimes fully justified, I'm baffled that older gospel songs seem insulated from such...

As the title suggests, this post will explore dressing up for Sunday worship and racism. Racism, I need to acknowledge at the outset, may ...

Stephen Lawson* oversees a course in the history of Christian worship for The Consortium for Christian Online Education.   A student recentl...

A reflective and candid meditation for the season.... I pause now and want to lament The bad poetry I have written for lent But rhym...

First, I do apologize for getting off topic.  This isn't about worship. But, I just finished reading over yet another evaluation of...