This session will draw from Randall Bradley’s decades of experience in worship planning, exploring the essential elements of crafting meaningful and transformative worship services. It will go beyond song selection to discuss
Global Worship Music
Randall Bradley – Global and Multicultural Music in Worship: Lessons from a Lifetime of Exploration (2025 Alleluia Conference)
This session explores the rich world of global and multicultural worship music, drawing from Randall Bradley’s lifetime of experience engaging with diverse musical traditions. It will focus on why and how churches can incorporate
Maria Monteiro – Worldwide Worship: That is God’s Idea (2024 Alleluia Conference)
Description: Panelists: Maria Monteiro, Eric Amouzou, Adekunle Oyeniyi, Antonius Priyanto, Sen Kikon This session is an invitation for you to consider Christian worship through a multicultural lens. Panelists from Brazil, Ghana, India, Indonesia, and Nigeria will...
Perceiving parallax : human agency in the changing nature, history, and influence of the Brazilian Baptist hymnal Cantor Cristão – Maria Monteiro
This dissertation is a cultural history and musical ethnography of the first Brazilian Baptist hymnal Cantor Cristão. Published in 1891, it was revised and expanded, and went through thirty-seven editions but remained the only official Baptist hymnal for one hundred years. Though a second Brazilian Baptist hymnal
Stephen Cowden & Jacob Sensenig – Using Global Hymnody in Local Congregations (2015 Alleluia Conference)
More than a new genre of music for worship, global hymnody represents an opportunity for the integration of faith and…
Jacob Sensenig – The Iona Community (2014 Alleluia Conference)
For over 75 years the Iona Community has served as a model for Christians interested in spiritual and liturgical renewal. In an age of declining churches and commercialized worship, the Iona Community has
Trey Harper & John Lassitter – An Introduction to the Community and Music of Taize (2010 Alleluia Conference)
Through simple chants rooted within the context of a monastic tradition, Christians from around the world unite in one voice by singing praises to God at the Taize community in…
Swee Hong Lim – Spring 2010 – Church Music Forum
Dr. Swee Hong Lim, formerly of Baylor’s Church Music Program faculty, presents the worship of China and other global hymnody.
Michael Hawn – Daily Prayer with the Taize Community: Worship in the 21st Century (2009 Alleluia Conference)
Why do young people come to the isolated village of Taizé in southeastern France by the thousands. The amenities are simple and…
Swee Hong Lim – Emerging Voices of Asia (2009 Alleluia Conference)
his presentation introduces emerging Christian musical expressions from Asia. Some performance practice guidelines will be offered