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A podcast produced by the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship. Learn more about our work at https://worship.calvin.edu/

  1. Nancy L. deClaissé-Walford on the Shape and Shaping of the Psalter

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    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. Contact Us | worship.calvin.edu

    27 min
  2. Andrew Wilkes on Doing the Work of Liberation and Justice with the Psalms as Our Guide

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    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 that lament is the evidence of faith because we are bringing our troubles to God. Contact Us | worship.calvin.edu

    24 min
  3. W. David O. Taylor on the Psalms and Praying the Unedited Life

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    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.  Contact Us | worship.calvin.edu

    42 min
  4. John Goldingay on the Psalms as Full of Theology and Straight Talking

    12/02/2025

    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, and committed one, but also as the one who makes demands upon us. The psalms help us talk to God, even about difficult things—and when we do, we are talking to someone who is in a position to do something about it. Contact Us | worship.calvin.edu

    29 min
  5. Vinroy D. Brown Jr. on Black Psalmody is for Everyone

    12/02/2025

    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 Black composers and how they have reimagined the psalms through choral music, spirituals, and the gospel tradition for the benefit of everyone. Contact Us | worship.calvin.edu

    35 min
  6. Kathleen Harmon on Becoming the Psalms

    12/02/2025

    Kathleen Harmon on Becoming the Psalms

    Sister Kathleen Harmon of the community of the Ohio province of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur in Dayton, invites us to be transformed by the psalms and experience them as the whole story God is revealing to us. As we keep praying and singing them, the psalms interpret us, and that’s when the transformation comes. Contact Us | worship.calvin.edu

    32 min

  7. 05/21/2025

    Jared Ortiz on the Dramatic Nature of the Nicene Creed

    Jared Ortiz, professor at Hope College, Holland, Michigan, describes the Nicene Creed as a dramatic and powerful statement where every word is like a declaration of war, saying yes to the truth and no to many falsehoods.  Contact Us | worship.calvin.edu

    38 min

  8. 05/21/2025

    Maria Eugenia Cornou and Mikie Roberts on the Doxological and Historical Significance of the Nicene Creed

    Maria Eugenia Cornou and Mikie Roberts serve on a planning team for an October worship event in Egypt to mark the 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea and the ecumenical creed that emerged in the year 325 and remains firmly embedded in the worship practices of the church today. Contact Us | worship.calvin.edu

    37 min
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