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Curating Church: Strategies for Innovative Worship
If we are willing to shift our approach to church, we will better connect with increasingly heterogeneous cultures. This shifting requires curation. Church leaders must learn to be curators! Churches in modernity were set up to facilitate a particular kind of experience with God. Church was its own (protected) culture. In the wake of postmodernity, facilitated by new forms of (digital) communication, we are entering a new epoch in the history of the church. Curators manage the tasks of connection, preservation, and transformation, in their care for cultural artifacts and communities.
When someone serves as a curator, they make connections between different elements in the culture, preserving the best of cultural traditions, and promoting fresh ways of thinking and being in the world. What might this work of curation mean for us? In Curating Church , readers learn how curation can reorient and sharpen the ways and work of the church. Curation can inform how we connect with cultures beyond the church, preserve what is best in the rich history of Christian thought and expression, and nurture spaces where contemporary persons may be transformed by the gospel. This book helps readers to understand with new richness the church and the world, and it equips them to become active in making those connections—as curators—with and for others.
When someone serves as a curator, they make connections between different elements in the culture, preserving the best of cultural traditions, and promoting fresh ways of thinking and being in the world. What might this work of curation mean for us? In Curating Church , readers learn how curation can reorient and sharpen the ways and work of the church. Curation can inform how we connect with cultures beyond the church, preserve what is best in the rich history of Christian thought and expression, and nurture spaces where contemporary persons may be transformed by the gospel. This book helps readers to understand with new richness the church and the world, and it equips them to become active in making those connections—as curators—with and for others.
224 pages, Paperback
Published October 2, 2018
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December 12, 2018
Some good food for thought. Overall, I’m not convinced of the effectiveness. By the author’s own admission, this worship format only appealed to a small portion of the church and caused substantial division.
Let the Word do the work. Hearing people’s stories, challenging people’s perceptions, and working art into a gathering is critical. It shouldn’t alienate whole generations of believers though. It also shouldn’t be so dependent on the shock factor or being radical every week. That’s unsustainable in the long run.
Let the Word do the work. Hearing people’s stories, challenging people’s perceptions, and working art into a gathering is critical. It shouldn’t alienate whole generations of believers though. It also shouldn’t be so dependent on the shock factor or being radical every week. That’s unsustainable in the long run.
May 14, 2021
While some of the comments about refocusing the church I agree with, this book itself lacked the focus needed to drive home this message. When there was focus, the author tries to explain the rechurch movement and its effects on a congregation. The results were less than desirable. Glossing over this did nothing to to add to it.
Overall, I learned some concepts. But I would not reread this.
Overall, I learned some concepts. But I would not reread this.
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