Those of us steeped in church life often take churchy things for granted. For me, one of those things is worship. Growing up, it never occurred to me to ask why I had to worship God; worship was ...
In part one of this series on the new English translation of the Roman Missal, we looked at the way that beauty reveals God and how it lifts our hearts to offer Him fitting worship and praise. Now, in ...
I am bothered greatly by attitudes of some who look at a worship service as a time of entertainment. Some complain: “I didn’t get much out of it,” or “I’m not getting enough.” They go to the assembly ...
It turns out the Bible’s idea of worship is mostly about posture, not music or praise. To be human is to worship. That much is clear in the Scriptures (Ps. 150:6), declared in our creeds, and evident ...
For Amos, it depends on whether the God we worship demands justice. In this Close Reading series, biblical scholars reflect on a passage in their area of expertise that has been formational in their ...
An introduction to the different forms of Christian worship and its origins in Jewish worship. Christian worship involves praising God in music and speech, readings from scripture, prayers of various ...
No impression we have of Jesus should be created without the proper revelatory data, and every impression, every thought, should evoke worship. Hence, since we possess no revelatory data for a picture ...
This article looks at Sikh worship and prayer. Sikhs worship God and only God. Unlike members of many other religions they worship God in his true abstract form, and don't use images or statues to ...