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Army in shootout with gang members in Rio; 105 cars and buses torched since Sunday

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For those who want to get more information about the sad situation in Rio De Janeiro, please visit this site below.

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Blind-folded worship experiences illustrates “how much we need God and each other” 8/13/2010

By Toya Richards

Rebecca Barnes-Davies, a dual-degree student at Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, intends to pastor a local congregation one day, and when she does, she will be equipped with experience and knowledge about how to incorporate more fully the arts into worship.

She recently attended the conference Danger: Art at Work, Worship and the Arts III, held July 28-31 at Louisville Seminary. The event, sponsored by the Seminary and the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Office of Theology, Worship, and Education, brought together students, pastors, artists, worship leaders, and others to explore the intersection between worship and the arts, often a dangerous endeavor.

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The final worship of the Edinburgh 2010 conference was so beautiful. 300 delegates from around the world singing global praises, praying for the world and listening to the word of God. The high moment was the interpretation of the text about the women at the well (John 4) by a group of Indian dancers. Absolutely stunning, I never saw anything like it! A group of 5 young dancers using Indian music, proper Indian dressing and so much beauty to tell us what happened in that biblical text. Jesus never felt so beautiful and joyous and stunning as in this interpretation of this young Indian dancer. Jesica is from India and the leader of this group of dancers who live in Birmingham, UK and is doing her PhD about Indian dance and Scriptures. After that dance I didn’t even need any preaching.

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May 26-30 - 11th Annual National Multicultural Church Conference

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June 2-6, Edinburgh Ecumenical Conference

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Introduction

The worship life of the 9th General Assembly of the All African Conference of Churches in Maputo, Mozambique was drafted with a sense of connectedness, of commonality, and with the hope and desire that, during this gathering, we, the body of Christ in Africa would dig deeper into our history of faith, into the actual movements of God in our midst and in expansion and shaping of our lives together.  Thus, the main theme that run through our hearts and bodies as we prepared the worship services of the assembly, was the theme of weaving.  As a very diverse body of Christ made up of so many cultures, languages, landscapes, costumes, denominations and countries, our challenge was to find liturgical ways to weave us all in, under, around and through  the love of God in Christ in the unity of the Spirit. Our hope and prayers were that, by imperfectly creating these threads through songs, prayers, symbols, and actions, God would grace in us the power of the Holy Spirit to unite us, to help us forgive and ask for forgiveness, to glorify God and honor one another. Through these diverse liturgical threads, the flow of the Holy Spirit would then confirm in us a strong sense of togetherness, of commonality, of life shared together. With that, we wanted to recall this one aspect of the Bantu theology with this strong sense of belonging, a vital force in the African continent. Read the rest of this entry »

As part of the 155th Spring Convocation Service, February 7, 2008, Dr. Cláudio Carvalhaes was installed as Assistant Professor of Worship and Preaching. Carvalhaes, who began teaching at LPTS in August, delivered the convocation address, “The Liturgical Space as a Territory” (John 4: 1-30), in which he inspired listeners to consider worship space as territory, marked by social, political, sexual, and economic boundaries, and how such an understanding should create in us a heightened sense of global awareness and anticipation in how we worship God. The service was planned with rich international textures and meanings and included a multi-sensory experience of liturgy.

Photos: Installation of Cláudio Carvalhaes as Assistant Professor of Worship and Preaching