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Emily Flowers Genesis PowerPoint

Thanks, again, to Eric Herron for his "Show and Tell" post! Glad I could be a "guinea pig" for this new way to connect with others on the site. Anyway, I mentioned that I created a PowerPoint presentation to go with the Genesis 1 creation story. It is now on my page. You'll have to click on "My Apps." You will see the file "Genesis1.2." You can click on this and view the presentation. It does not have music with it. We played the music from an external source. We used parts of the Lizst "Les

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Added by Emily Flowers on July 30, 2010 at 8:05am — No Comments

Eric D. Herron Show and Tell

Have you noticed the short announcement about Clayfire on the main page of Creative Worship Tour? CWT will soon be transitioning to a new name (weareclayfire.org) and look. Actually, it’s more than that. On this new site, we’ll be taking more steps together toward learning, sharing and really collaborating in worship.

One outstanding feature of weareclayfire.org will be the sharing of what are called “Collections". Collections are groupings of 3-6 i
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Added by Eric D. Herron on July 29, 2010 at 1:00am — 7 Comments

Jodi-Renee Adams The Sound of Silence

Hello, darkness, my old friend / I've come to talk with you again / because a vision softly creeping / left it's seeds while I was sleeping / and the vision that was planted in my brain / still remains / within the sound of silence.

Very few poet-songwriters of the 1970's could paint word pictures like Simon and Garfunkel. I'm still not sure if I can find one that feels more true and tangible than the idea of the "sound of silence." Immediately,… Continue

Added by Jodi-Renee Adams on July 28, 2010 at 8:10am — 4 Comments

Linda Parriott Public Art Project Idea

After participating in the group art project at The Art of Curating Worship event last month (photos on the Clayfire Facebook page), and seeing examples of guerrilla worship events during Mark Pierson's presentation, I'm increasingly intrigued by the possibilities of public art as worship.

This morning in my email inbox, there was an enewsletter from my local neighborhood organization. More often than not, I… Continue

Added by Linda Parriott on July 23, 2010 at 5:00am — 3 Comments

Eric D. Herron Expose Yourself to Worship

Have you ever been misunderstood? This is a silly question. Of course you have. We all have. The nature of language is such that even those who are (supposedly) speaking the same one, often receive an unintended message. I think communication breakdowns occur not just for language problems, but even more often simply because we are not listening to one another. This is unfortunate.

However, many mis-understandings do occur for very understandable reasons.
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Added by Eric D. Herron on July 22, 2010 at 12:00am — 2 Comments

Eric D. Herron Art for the Spiritually Blind

"Our ministry needs your collaboration. In our ministry we must preach, make understandable and accessible the world of the spirit, the invisible world of God. And in this operation of expressing the invisible world of the spirit in accessible, intelligible terms, you (the artists) are the masters..."1
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Added by Eric D. Herron on July 15, 2010 at 1:00am — No Comments

Jodi-Renee Adams Why We Need a Scary Worship Philosophy

Scary confession: I don’t really like going to church. Even my church - you know, that one that I pastor. I wake up on Sunday mornings at that ol’ 5:30 am rooster crow and have to wind myself up for the morning ahead with a small ball of something in my stomach resembling weariness and an “i-don’t-wanna” attitude. Don’t get me wrong...I’m always so glad, so ridiculously grateful once I get there and things start moving; once the liturgy starts rolling off our tongues, the music takes that myster… Continue

Added by Jodi-Renee Adams on July 13, 2010 at 9:30pm — 2 Comments

Eric D. Herron Found In Translation

I just joined a new social media site called Xiha Life.

I read about Xiha in the latest issue of Wired. (Xiha means “fun” or “happy” in Mandarin and “hip hop” in Cantonese.) Clive Thompson has written an intriguing little piece about this online community.

Xiha Life has many of the same functions as other soci
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Added by Eric D. Herron on July 8, 2010 at 12:30am — No Comments

Linda Parriott Good-bye, Josh

Some of you may already know this story, but it's worth repeating. Creative Worship Tour is the brainchild of Josh Linman, who launched it from the ground up in the summer of 2008 as an internship project. For two months that summer, he was on the road, touring several Midwestern states, visiting creative worship teams and leaders, posting video interviews, and blogging about his travels. At the end of that summer, as Josh headed back to Florida and his final year of college, we took stock of th… Continue

Added by Linda Parriott on July 7, 2010 at 4:07pm — No Comments

Jodi-Renee Adams New Pictures for an Old Story

[This is a re-post from a blog posted in September 2008. After spending this last week with so many great people discussing worship as narrative, this seemed like another appropriate piece to add to the conversation. Can't wait to hear your thoughts!]

It is Thursday, and I am heading down to the inner-city middle school my daughter attends to direct and nurture a fledgling after-school choir program. You know the story. No funding means no art and music. Then what follows: academic achi… Continue

Added by Jodi-Renee Adams on July 6, 2010 at 10:00am — No Comments

Eric D. Herron Building: A Ritual

There is an interesting TED talk by David Byrne (yep, the one from Talking Heads) about architecture and music. No, it is not just about acoustics - although this science definitely plays a part in what he shares. Byrne shares about the connection between the physical characteristics of a space and the effect these have on the kind of music we compose to be played in them. Take a few minutes to
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Added by Eric D. Herron on July 1, 2010 at 1:00am — 4 Comments

Jesse Omniscience

It's so hard for us to just let God do what he does. We have the undeniable need to prove ourselves, show we know what we are talking about, be "successful", etc... Sure, we can admit that every-so-often we don't know it ALL, but how often do we TRULY believe that? We are told to follow our hearts; they know best... Of course they do! Right???… Continue

Added by Jesse on June 25, 2010 at 2:50am — No Comments

Eric D. Herron Balancing Your Worship Diet

The Christian life is meant to be one that is holistic in terms of God-worship. While there is an aspect of our faith that requires personal, devotional acts to enable internal spiritual growth, there is certainly also an equally important aspect that necessitates devotion to God externally and in participation with others. In simpler terms, Christians are to be both devoted to personal spiritual growth, as well as growth that takes place in community.

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Added by Eric D. Herron on June 24, 2010 at 1:00am — 1 Comment

Jodi-Renee Adams Professor Dumbledore and the Golden Calf: thoughts for worship

I think I need an Albus Dumbledore. You know what I mean: a dignified, velvet-dressed wizard to speak epiphanies into being and the occasional incredibly random statement from time to time, just to keep me on track and at peace with myself. I'm pretty sure they don't sell those at Sharper Image, but if they did I'd be lining up. This wisdom from the great Professor is one of the most oft-referenced sharpie scrawled post-it-notes clinging to the front of my idea journal..."The time is yet coming… Continue

Added by Jodi-Renee Adams on June 22, 2010 at 12:00pm — 3 Comments

Tom Keesecker New Music

I have a new piece out with Augsburg Fortress Publishers I'd like to share with you all. It's in a new small collection titled Assembly Required, Service Music for Choir and Assembly. There are four pieces in the collection. Mine is one out of the four.

This is a very simple song. I wrote the words thinking about what we do when we come together for worship, especially when we celebrate communion together. I was also playing/thinking about the word "assembly."

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Added by Tom Keesecker on June 18, 2010 at 2:30pm — No Comments

Eric D. Herron Tell Me Your Story (You've Got Six to Eight Minutes)

Last week, we examined the notion that drama of any kind (according to Helen Nicholson) provides “transportation” for those involved (both actors and audience). In Nicholson’s book called Applied Drama, she also remarks that while drama can provide transportation for audience and actors, transformation is reserved for other cultural practices such as ritual.

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Added by Eric D. Herron on June 17, 2010 at 1:00am — 2 Comments

Jodi-Renee Adams Mood-Makers, Story-Tellers, and Picture-Framers

Eight hundred years ago, imagery was one of the most commonly used assets of the Church in worship. Serving a congregation of mostly illiterate worshipers meant that the "worship leader" had the heavy responsibility of commissioning art and imagery that would teach without words about the grand luminosity of a GOD who was also as close as our next breath. Even in our literate age, we find that words still fail to communicate the "bigness" of themes and ideas in the same way that an image or a sy… Continue

Added by Jodi-Renee Adams on June 15, 2010 at 11:00am — 1 Comment

Eric D. Herron Take Me Or Make Me

I am not a theatre buff. I AM a fan of spelling it “theat-re”. This somehow seems more professional.

Nonetheless, I am clearly on some sort of drama “kick” recently. You know this if you’ve read my last two blog posts. Much of what has sparked my thinking about drama-making (and specifically what drama-making might teach us about worship-making) is some recent Tweets from my dramatic friend Dennis Baker. (I mean ‘drama
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Added by Eric D. Herron on June 10, 2010 at 1:00am — No Comments

Jodi-Renee Adams Picture pages, picture pages, time to get your picture pages, time to get your crayons and your PEN-cils...

Media pioneer William Bernbach was once quoted as saying, "In this very real world, good doesn't drive out evil. Evil doesn't drive out good. But the energetic displaces the passive." We are a people who crave engagement, who look for opportunities to enter into a story that's bigger than we are. Think of the best movie you've ever seen. My guess is that the power of experience wasn't simply in its presentation, but in the movie's ability to draw you into the plot and make it

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Added by Jodi-Renee Adams on June 8, 2010 at 2:31pm — 2 Comments

Eric D. Herron Casting Call (part 2)

Last week, I introduced the idea that a worship leader who does her job well has a lot in common with a successful actor in a play. I explained that there are three main components that an actor must attend to for his performance to be stellar. So far, we have discussed the first two: role and script.

(If you haven’t read part-one yet, you can find it here.)
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Added by Eric D. Herron on June 3, 2010 at 2:00am — No Comments

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Mark Pierson commented on Mark Pierson's blog post 'worship mirrors art?'
Linda, I think I have deleted a comment of yours by mistake!! My apologies. You can do what Stephen does. Talk to him about what is needed, or trawl around on his website. I think environmental projections would go great at a RED event. Its an easy…
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Mark Pierson commented on Mark Pierson's blog post 'worship mirrors art?'
Nice stuff Cyndi. I like the thinking you have done around what you do, before you do it! Not enough people make that kind of close contextualisation to their congregation. Nice.
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Thanks, again, to Eric Herron for his "Show and Tell" post! Glad I could be a "guinea pig" for this new way to connect with others on the site. Anyway, I mentioned that I created a PowerPoint presentation to go with the Genesis 1 creation story. It…
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Emily Flowers commented on Eric D. Herron's blog post 'Show and Tell'
Thanks for posting this, Eric! I can't wait to see what other folks are up to!
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Eric D. Herron commented on Jodi-Renee Adams's blog post 'The Sound of Silence'
This makes me think about what my high school jazz teacher said: "It is the silence between the notes that creates the rhythm." Saying this was one of the ways he motivated antsy, immature, 16 yr. old jazz musicians to stop playing so many notes wh…
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Linda Sines commented on Eric D. Herron's blog post 'Show and Tell'
You've trained my eye to find your subtle inspiRED messages : )
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