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This article is part of our series on Voices Together, the new worship and song collection from MennoMedia, in partnership with Mennonite Church USA and Mennonite Church Canada. Katie Graber is an ethnomusicologist who studies race and ethnicity in a variety of contexts, including Mennonite music, American music and European opera. She teaches classes on Western music history and world music at the Ohio State University, and she leads singing at her church in Columbus, Ohio. She co-directs the Anabaptist Worship Network and chaired the Intercultural Worship committee for the Voices Together project. Anneli Loepp Thiessen is a Ph.D. student in Interdisciplinary Music...
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This article is part of our series on Voices Together, the new worship and song collection from MennoMedia, in partnership with Mennonite Church USA and Mennonite Church Canada. Katie Graber is an ethnomusicologist, who studies race and ethnicity in a variety of contexts, including Mennonite music, American music and European opera. She has taught classes on Western music history and world music, and she accompanies Suzuki recitals and school choirs. She leads singing at her church in Columbus, Ohio, and chairs the Intercultural Worship committee for the Voices Together project. _____________________________________________________________________________ Celebrating All Saints’ Day is a centuries-old Christian tradition,...
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This article is part of our series on Voices Together, the new worship and song collection from MennoMedia, in partnership with Mennonite Church USA and Mennonite Church Canada. Katie Graber is an ethnomusicologist, who studies race and ethnicity in a variety of contexts, including Mennonite music, American music and European opera. She has taught classes on Western music history and world music, and she accompanies Suzuki recitals and school choirs. She leads singing at her church in Columbus, Ohio, and chairs the Intercultural Worship committee for the Voices Together project. Anneli Loepp Thiessen is a Ph.D. student in Interdisciplinary Music...
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This article is part of our series on Voices Together, the new worship and song collection from MennoMedia, in partnership with Mennonite Church USA and Mennonite Church Canada. Sarah Kathleen Johnson was the worship resources editor for “Voices Together” and the editor of the “Voices Together: Worship Leader Edition.” Originally from Waterloo, Ontario, she currently lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, where she is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Theology and Worship and Louisville Institute Postdoctoral Fellow at Vancouver School of Theology and St. Mark’s College at the University of British Columbia. Carl Bear is a church musician and musicologist,...
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We encourage people and congregations to “Learn, Pray, Join” about the Cost of Poverty. We’ll explore the topic of poverty from theological and practical perspectives, addressing its intersectional nature and the impact of the pandemic. “As stewards of money and possessions, we are to live simply, practice mutual aid within the church, uphold economic justice, and give generously and cheerfully. As persons dependent on God’s providence, we are not to be anxious about the necessities of life, but to seek first the kingdom of God. We cannot be true servants of God and let our...
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This article is part of our series on Voices Together, the new worship and song collection from MennoMedia, in partnership with Mennonite Church USA and Mennonite Church Canada. Katie Graber is an ethnomusicologist, who studies race and ethnicity in a variety of contexts, including Mennonite music, American music and European opera. She has taught classes on Western music history and world music, and she accompanies Suzuki recitals and school choirs. She leads singing at her church in Columbus, Ohio, and chairs the Intercultural Worship committee for the Voices Together project _____________________ MennoMedia, Mennonite Church USA and Mennonite Church Canada invite...
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This post is part of Mennonite Church USA’s MennoCon21 #BringThePeace series. Katie Graber is an ethnomusicologist, who studies race and ethnicity in a variety of contexts, including Mennonite music, American music and European opera. She has taught classes on Western music history and world music, and she accompanies Suzuki recitals and school choirs. She leads singing at her church in Columbus, Ohio, and chairs the Intercultural Worship committee for the Voices Together project Katie will be co-leading a MennoCon21 virtual seminar, "Voices Together: A Closer Look", July 8 at 4:15 p.m. The seminar will be available on Pheedloop for the month following...
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This article is part of our series on Voices Together, the new worship and song collection from MennoMedia, in partnership with Mennonite Church USA and Mennonite Church Canada. When Hymnal: A Worship Book was released in 1992, internet access was slowly becoming available. Before last year, Mennonite Church USA and Mennonite Church Canada did not have a website as a companion to their hymnals. Now, the website for Voices Together is an essential and growing resource for congregations as they adopt the collection. If you have not visited VoicesTogetherHymnal.org, you may be surprised by the many resources it offers. In...
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During the Voices Together (VT) Dedication event on December 13, 2020, the first of four online Launch webinars, the committee received more questions than we had time to answer. Here are the remaining questions from that event. By Katie Graber Do you expect congregations that primarily sing contemporary worship music projected on screens to adopt Voices Together instead of continuing to project music? We do not expect Voices Together to fulfill every Mennonite congregation’s needs, but we hope it will bridge gaps and be useful for a variety of communities. For example, the Voices Together projection version will be...
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Donantes están invitados a unirse a Everence, MCC U.S. y MDS para ayudar a las iglesias a enfrentar el difícil invierno que se avecina. Read in English. Por Madalyn Metzger Anticipándose al complicado invierno que se avecina, Everence®, el Comité Central Menonita de EE. UU. (MCC U.S.) y el Servicio Menonita para Desastres (MDS) están invitando a donantes a contribuir al Fondo de Ayuda Congregacional COVID-19, y anunciando una contribución adicional de $50,000 -...
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This article is part of our series on Voices Together and highlights worship resources curated by folks from Mennonite Church USA and Mennonite Church Canada. Rebecca Slough is academic dean and professor of Worship and the Arts emerita at Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary. She is teaching part-time and pursuing several worship-related interests in retirement. __________________ Worship leaders and planners look for songs, words, actions and images that draw their congregations together in the presence of Christ and to the heart of God. Giving shape to congregational worship is a relentless and rewarding ministry task that worship planners and...
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This article is part of our series on Voices Together, the new worship and song collection from MennoMedia, in partnership with Mennonite Church USA and Mennonite Church Canada. By Katie Graber and Sarah Kathleen Johnson As Sarah Kathleen Johnson describes in her article "More Than Singing," Voices Together (VT) is a book of history, scripture, theology, and more. This collection of songs and worship resources includes items from nearly every century since Jesus’ birth (and some from before). The timeline on page four of this Guide to Adopting Voices Together shows the historical breakdown of the texts and...
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This article is part of our series on Voices Together, the new worship and song collection from MennoMedia, in partnership with Mennonite Church USA and Mennonite Church Canada. Last week the committee working on the new Mennonite hymnal and worship book Voices Together released a statement: “Expansive Language in Voices Together: Gendered Images of God.” The statement describes the theological reasons why the committee decided to expand gendered images of God as well as retain familiar images. It outlines the processes used to make specific decisions about language. Questions for reflection and discussion for individuals and communities are provided. In...
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This article is part of our series on Voices Together, a new worship and song collection coming fall 2020 from MennoMedia, in partnership with Mennonite Church USA and Mennonite Church Canada. The following essay will be included in a forthcoming collection of notes about Voices Together songs, which will be available at VoicesTogetherHymnal.org. The content of this particular essay grew from discussions among the committee and a group of African American consultants. It was written by Shannon Dycus, Bradley Kauffman, and Katie Graber. “I am grateful to the work of the Voices Together team and Shannon Dycus in particular...
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