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Receive a good dose of inspiration in the form of articles, stories and news, including a feature on the personal side of Robert Webber.

Imagine hearing Robert Webber address the graduating class! Here you go.

“The Worship Seminar with Christine Pohl was fantastic! Each session was rich with content and will be fodder for sermons and staff meetings over the next year” (Seminar 2016 attendee).

Audio and video resources from the seminar “Cultivating Community and Worship” by Dr. Christine Pohl.

Photos of the 2016 graduating class.

The Rev. Dr. Dennis Andrews, CDR, USN, returned to the IWS pulpit to deliver the homily at the fifteenth annual Commencement Service.

The June 2016 chapel series “Cosmos Alive” explored some oft-neglected topics related to Creation and cosmology.

The IWS Bibliography has been updated ahead of the June 2016 on-campus intensive, thanks to the hard work of IWS Bibliographer Dr. Mark Torgerson. This update includes several works on the arts, several on liturgy and formation, one from an IWS professor, and many more valuable titles. All recent additions […]

The Spring 2016 Edition of the IWS Community Newsletter.

Updates from IWS alumni around the world.

D.W.S. student Cheryl Lindsay preaches on the results of being exposed to Jesus Christ at the DWS 704 class’s service of Healing and Communion in January 2016.

The Institute for Worship Studies recognizes the importance of assessing how well students are doing in their degree programs, and how effective the Institute for Worship Studies is in the pursuit of its institutional goals. Here is the latest summary of our findings.

Contemporary followers of Jesus often say that we long for richer experiences of Christian community, but we often struggle with the practices that build up and tear apart our common life. This seminar will explore 4 practices that are at the heart of community living and Christian worship and explore ways in which we can strengthen these practices for worship and community.

The IWS Bibliography has been updated for the January 2016 on-campus intensive, thanks to the hard work of IWS Bibliographer Dr. Mark Torgerson. Recent additions to the bibliography are identified just after the table of contents. The titles mentioned there will also be integrated into the bibliography under the appropriate […]

JACKSONVILLE, Fla- After 17 years in Orange Park, FL, the Robert E. Webber Institute for Worship Studies (IWS) has relocated its campus and operations to Hendricks Avenue Baptist Church in Jacksonville, FL. IWS was founded and hosted on the Orange Park campus of Grace Episcopal Church in early 1999. The […]