In this episode of the Worship Theology Podcast, Dr. Jeremy Perigo and the Reverend Professor Steve Walton discuss Christian worship from the book of Acts. Walton is a leading New Testament scholar and the Senior Research Fellow in New Testament at Trinity College, Bristol. He has published numerous books and articles on Acts and is authoring the f…

In this episode of the Worship/Theology Podcast, Dr. Jeremy Perigo interviews Pastor Michael Miller, founding pastor and senior leader of UPPERROOM. They discuss the theology, worship practices, and story of a church community centered around the presence of Jesus. UPPERROOM is known for its commitment to prayer and worship, with prayer meetings ha…

In this Worship/Theology Podcast episode, Dr. Jeremy Perigo interviews Dr. Joshua Busman about his article titled “A Fun and Funky Disco Pastiche: David Crowder Confronts Evangelical Performance Anxiety.” They discuss the concept of performance anxiety in evangelical worship and how it affects both worship leaders and congregants. They explore the …

Chris Green & Steven Felix-Jager’s The Spirit and the Song (forthcoming) Steven Félix-Jäger and Yoon Shin, Renewing Christian Worldview Steven Brown and Ulrik Volgsten, Eds., Music and Manipulation Jeremy Begbie, “Faithful Feelings: Music and Emotion in Worship” Adam Perez, “‘It’s Your Breath in Our Lungs’: Sean Feucht’s Praise and Worship Music Pr…

Journey with Dr. Jeremy Perigo and Nashville-based artists, Zach & Maggie, as they reflect on musicmaking inside and outside of the church. In addition to working alongside notable artists including Ricky Skaggs, Vince Gill, Alison Krauss, and a long tenure with hymn writers Keith & Kristyn Getty, their lively original compositions pair Zach's skil…

Kutter Callaway’s The Aesthetics of Atheism Martin Scorsese’s Silence Jurgen Moltmann’s The Crucified God Be Afraid Podcast: https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/podcasts/be-afraid/

Walter Brueggemann’s The Prophetic Imagination Walter Brueggemann’s A Gospel of Hope Steven Felix-Jager’s Renewal Worship Luke Timothy Johnson’s Prophetic Jesus, Prophetic Church

Steven Felix-Jager & Yoon Shin’s Renewing Christian Worldview: A Holistic Approach for Spirit-filled Christians Steven Felix-Jager’s The Problem and Promise of Freedom: A Public Theology for God’s Covenantal Community (forthcoming 2025) Preston Sprinkle’s Exiles: The Church in the Shadow of Empire Augustine’s The City of God…

In this podcast, Dr. Jeremy Perigo hosts Dr. Steven Félix-Jäger discussing his recent book Renewal Worship: A Theology of Doxology. Recorded live at the Society for Pentecostal Studies, they unpack topics such as global worship shifts, emotional manipulation, pneumatology, sacramentalism, lyrical theology, shifts in worship studies, relational theo…

Carmen Imes' Being God's Image Carmen Imes' Bearing God's Name

Preston Sprinkle's Embodied Elizabeth Moltmann-Wendel's I Am My Body Beilby and Eddy's Understanding Transgender Identities

Nijay Gupta's Strange Religion Richard Middleton's Abraham's Silence The Bible Project: https://bibleproject.com/

Join Dr. Jeremy Perigo as he hosts Dr. Ron Man as they discuss the biblical foundations of worship. Ron is a worship educator and serves on the steering committee of the Biblical Worship Section of the Evangelical Theological Society. He is also the director of Worship Resources International. His most recent book, Let Us Draw Near, is an expansive…

Millard Erickson's Making Sense of the Trinity Augustine's On the Trinity Gregory of Nyssa's On the Trinity Richard Rohr's Divine Dance

This episode features special guest Dr. Jim W. Adams. "Weep No More" Music Video: https://youtu.be/Q6wxk3ewoBA?si=ytpP7epA5RkWrKfu L. Daniel Hawk's The Violence of the Biblical God Matthew Lynch's Flood and Fury: Old Testament Violence and the Shalom of God Claude Mariottini's Divine Violence and the Character of God Greg Boyd's The Crucifixion of …

Meagan's Master's Dissertation: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/edrj5x1p1g9jeq2atrv90/lord-dissertation..pdf?rlkey=zlz05479mxv5omxg1v3e0p7ug&dl=0 Rachel Joy Welcher's Taking Back to Purity Culture Judith & Jack Balswick's Authentic Human Sexuality Stanley Grenz' Sexual Ethics: An Evangelical Perspective Dennis Hollinger's The Meaning of Sex: Christi…

Join Dr. Jeremy Perigo as he hosts scholar, pastor, and musician Zac Hicks. Hicks is currently pastor of Church of the Cross in Birmingham, Alabama, and is the author of several books, including, most recently, Before We Gather. Drawing from Hicks' The Worship Pastor and Worship By Faith Alone, they discuss practical and theological issues around j…

Join Dr. Jeremy Perigo as he hosts Dr. Melanie Ross, Associate Professor of Liturgical Studies at Yale Divinity School. They explore themes surrounding Evangelical practices and theologies of worship, particularly from Ross' books Evangelical Worship: An American Mosaic (2021) and Evangelical vs. Liturgical? Defying a Dichotomy (2014). Beyond monol…

Two Dordt University Professors, Dr. Justin Bailey and Prof. David Platter, are joining Dr. Jeremy Perigo on this episode. Drawing from Bailey's academic work in beauty and culture and Platter's experience as a working studio artist and educator, they reflect on the challenges and opportunities of visual art in corporate worship. They grapple with …

This is a bonus Christmas episode.

This episode features special guest Dr. A.J. Swoboda. A.J. Swoboda’s Subversive Sabbath http://bakerpublishinggroup.com/books/subversive-sabbath/385241 Norman Wirzba’s Living the Sabbath http://bakerpublishinggroup.com/books/living-the-sabbath/268530 Adam Gustine and José Humphreys III’s Ecosystems of Jubilee https://zondervanacademic.com/products/…

Steven Félix-Jäger’s Renewal Worship, https://www.ivpress.com/renewal-worship Steven’s Other Writing, https://www.stevenfelixjager.com/writing Greg Scheer’s Essential Worship, http://bakerpublishinggroup.com/books/essential-worship/377090 Steffany Gretzinger’s Podcast Appearances, https://www.owltail.com/people/TITj8-steffany-gretzinger/appearances…

William Lane Craig’s The Only Wise God https://wipfandstock.com/9781579103163/the-only-wise-god/ N.T. Wright’s Paul and the Faithfulness of God https://www.fortresspress.com/store/product/9780800626839/Paul-and-the-Faithfulness-of-God C.S. Lewis’ Mere Christianity https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/mere-christianity-c-s-lewis/1100549216 Clark Pinnock…

In this episode, Dr. Jeremy Perigo hosts Revd. Associate Professor Dr. Daniel Thornton of Alphacrucis University College in Australia. Dr. Thornton is an ordained minister, worship leader, musician, educator, and theologian with significant experience in production, theater, and composition. Together, they discuss Thornton’s scholarly research into…

This episode features special guests Dr. Tim Lee and Jennifer Thigpenn. Preston Sprinkle’s Does the Bible Support Same-Sex Marriage? https://shop.davidccook.org/products/does-the-bible-support-same-sex-marriage Preston Sprinkle’s People to Be Loved https://zondervanacademic.com/products/people-to-be-loved Pew Research Center “Religious Groups’ Offi…

Nijay Gupta’s Tell Her Story https://www.ivpress.com/tell-her-story David and Diana Garland’s Flawed Families of the Bible http://bakerpublishinggroup.com/books/flawed-families-of-the-bible/281212 Stanley Grenz’ Sexual Ethics https://www.thethoughtfulchristian.com/Products/066425750X/sexual-ethics.aspx Athena Doctrine Ted Talk: https://youtu.be/Yxg…

“NAE Denounces Insurrection at the U.S. Capitol,” Jan. 7, 2021, https://www.nae.org/nae-denounces-insurrection-capitol/ Gregory Boyd’s The Myth of a Christian Nation https://www.audible.com/pd/Myth-of-a-Christian-Nation-Audiobook/B002V1NXY6 Paul Miller’s The Religion of American Greatness https://www.ivpress.com/the-religion-of-american-greatness R…

How has worship music shifted in the last ten years in the USA? Join Dr. Jeremy Perigo as he hosts Dr. Shannan Baker, a Postdoctoral Fellow in Music and Digital Humanities at Baylor University. Their discussion focuses on the musical, theological, and market shifts of CCLI's Top 25 songs from 2010-2020. Topics include lyrical theology, Trinitarian …

This episode features special guest Aimee Selby, Asst. Prof. of Ministry at Life Pacific University. Charles Kraft's Two Hours to Freedom http://bakerpublishinggroup.com/books/two-hours-to-freedom/325140 David Lim's Spiritual Gifts: A Fresh Look https://myhealthychurch.com/store/startitem.cfm?item=020636 Jerry Stott's Positioned for the Gifts https…

“Church Hurt” by Theos Team, https://www.theosu.ca/theos-resource/church-hurt Henri Nouwen's The Wounded Healer https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/122882/the-wounded-healer-by-henri-j-m-nouwen/ Natalie Runion's Raised to Stay https://davidccook.org/books/raised-to-stay/

On this second episode of season two, Dr. Jeremy Perigo hosts worship historian Dr. Adam Perez of Belmont University. Together they discuss how the history of contemporary worship song impacts local churches today. With a specific focus on worship in the 1980s and 1990s, Perez shares how studying the history of Christian worship gives us important …

“Suffering and Evil: The logical Problem,” videos by William Lane Craig, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k64YJYBUFLM&list=PL3gdeV4Rk9EcdXA1dVgb7-C0lXtp6LFp4 Jurgen Moltmann’s Jesus Christ For Today’s World, http://bakerpublishinggroup.com/books/after-doubt/401960 N.T. Wright’s Evil and the Justice of God, https://www.ivpress.com/evil-and-the-justic…

“Doubt and Deconstruction: The Way of Thomas Pt. 1,” sermon by A.J. Swoboda, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ej9HpusMwDM “Doubt and Deconstruction: The Way of Thomas Pt. 2,” sermon by A.J. Swoboda, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbfV-yGO4ZA A.J. Swoboda’s After Doubt, http://bakerpublishinggroup.com/books/after-doubt/401960- Andrew Ray Williams’ D…

In the first episode of season two, Dr. Jeremy Perigo sits down with Dr. Matthew Kaemingk, a public theologian based at Fuller Seminary. Together, they discuss Reformed worship, public theology, the need to become vocationally conversant as ministry leaders, and how to bridge the vast chasm between our worship and worship. Those who listen to the e…

In the final episode of the first season, join Dr. Jeremy Perigo as he welcomes back Geraldine Latty and Carey Luce as they discuss the practice of creativity and emotional breadth in worship. Hear topics such as the use of gospel choirs, planning time for creativity, utilizing musical tensions, emotional and musical manipulation, the theology of t…

Join Dr. Jeremy Perigo with guests Kenny & Claire Hilliard as they examine the importance of lyrical theology. Kenny and Claire are Nashville-based songwriters with a passion for serving the local church. This podcast was recorded live at Dordt University in Sioux Center, Iowa during a worship arts and theology class.…

In this episode, Dr. Jeremy Perigo sits down with Rich and Lydia di Castiglione, UK-based worship leaders and songwriters, to discuss writing worship songs that simultaneously acknowledge pain, suffering, grief, and hope. They explore how worship songs can express empathy and the entire emotive bandwidth of the Christian life. Hear the stories and …

Join Dr. Jeremy Perigo as he sits down with London-based musician and educator Carey Luce as they explore creativity in church music. Carey is a lecturer at London School of Theology and recently served as visiting worship artist in residence at Dordt University. Their discussion topics include curating musical creativity, education models for impr…

Join Dr. Jeremy Perigo as he hosts New Testament scholar Dr. Conrad Gempf as they discuss worship in the New Testament. Dr. Gempf has taught at London School of Theology for years and is a creative voice bridging the academy and the Church. Discussion topics include the Lord’s Supper, biblical interpretation, worshipping Jesus, the cultural backgro…

Join Dr. Jeremy Perigo, along with Sara and Sam Hargreaves, as they discuss the crucial intersection between gathered worship and scattered worship. Sam and Sara help give theological insight and creative worship practices that connect our Sunday worship with Monday work. The Hargreaves are scholarly practitioners serving both as theological educat…

Join us for this unique discussion hosted by Dr. Jeremy Perigo on multicultural churches and multicultural worship with Dr. Dan Backens and Pastor Kevin Turpin of New Life Church in Hampton Roads, Virginia. Drawing from over twenty years in ministry leading a multicultural church together, these two leaders discuss challenges around race, church pl…

Dr. Tanya Riches, a researcher and Senior Lecturer at Hillsong College, joins us in unpacking the intersections of her ministry and scholarly work in mega churches, Pentecostal liturgical theology, and Aboriginal-led Australian congregation. Don’t miss this stimulating discussion around branding worship, Pentecostal worship, Hillsong, navigating et…

Join Dr. Jeremy Perigo and Dr. Eric Sarwar, a missiologist, minister, and musical peacemaker, as they unpack Eric’s musical peacemaking ministry and his recent Ph.D. dissertation, “Psalms, Islam, and Salam: The Punjabi Psalter as Public Witness in Pakistan.” Interfaith dialogue, worship, mission, musical genres in Pakistan, liturgical identities, t…

Dr. Jeremy Perigo sits down with Dr. Lester Ruth to discuss the theological roots of the contemporary worship movement. Drawing from Ruth’s recent collaborative work with Dr. Swee Hong Lim titled A History of Contemporary Praise & Worship, this podcast unpacks two streams of theological and liturgical development in contemporary praise and worship.…

Dr. Jeremy Perigo and Dr. Simon Chan sit down to discuss Chan's book Liturgical Theology. Chan spans a unique space in his academic and pastoral work serving as an Assemblies of God minister and systematic theologian focusing on liturgical theology and spirituality. Join this discussion as they delve into weaknesses of Evangelical and Charismatic t…

Join Dr. Jeremy Perigo in this special conversation with Prof. Paul Mealor, one of the world’s most performed living composers. Paul’s Motet, Ubi caritas, was performed in front of 2.5 billion viewers at the Royal Wedding Ceremony of His Royal Highness Prince William and Catherine Middleton (now TRH The Duke & Duchess of Cambridge) at Westminster A…

Dr. Jeremy Perigo sits down with Dr. Constance Cherry to discuss her decades of church leadership, scholarly reflection, and university teaching. This episode focuses on the biblical foundations of Christian worship and the need to be intentional about the shape and structure of corporate worship. Every church has a liturgy, even if leaders aren’t …

Recent discussion around theology and worship music often centers around getting lyrics more "theological" or getting the form or structure of worship "right." Dr. Nathan Myrick’s book Music for Others reveals that singing orthodox lyrics might not be enough. In this discussion, Dr. Jeremy Perigo sits down with Myrick to discuss the ethical issues …

Join Dr. Jeremy Perigo as he sits down with Dr. Angela Perigo, Director of Faith Formation at Dordt University, to discuss how to recognize a divine call to create corporate services that engage all of God’s people in worship. Drawing from Angela’s recent doctoral worship that focuses on a Spirit-shaped ecclesiology, they unpack theological and lit…

In part two of this discussion, Jeremy Perigo and Graham Kendrick unpack various topics surrounding leading and planning worship, including the pastoral and theological demands of leadership, liturgical songs, public praise, spiritual warfare, trending songs, the local church, and much more. Graham finishes the discussion with well-tested words of …