Welcome to a New Reality

Worship and Mission for the Global Church: an Ethnodoxology Handbook + DVD Resources and Creating Local Arts Together: a Manual to Help Communities Reach Their Kingdom Goals is about a new reality. Imagining what God’s Kingdom would be like using all of the arts for God. These two volumes offer theological reflection, case studies, practical tools, and audio visual resources to help the global church increase its awareness of and appreciation for culturally appropriate arts in Christian worship and witness.

handbook-cover-shadowWorship and Mission for the Global Church: An Ethnodoxology Handbook offers theological reflection, case studies, and practical tools to help the global church appreciate and generate culturally appropriate arts in worship and witness. From the expertise of more than 100 practitioners in 20 countries, this volume integrates insights from the fields of ethnomusicology, worship studies, missiology and the arts. DVD materials of the first edition can be accessed online for those purchasing a book without a DVD: Learn More

Creating Local Arts Together: A Manual to Help Communities Reach Their Kingdom Goals is a manual designed to guide an individual or group into a local community’s efforts at integrating its arts with the values and purposes of God’s kingdom. The practical, playful text reduces experience-based scholarly insights gained from multiple decades of incarnational ministry around the world into a flexible seven-step process. Learn More

 

CLAT Companion

We highly recommend that readers download the free CLAT Companion and explore the Digital Library. These resources augment the revised and updated CLAT Manual (2025) in vital ways. Most noticeably, we have moved the vast majority of research tools for features connected to music, drama, dance, oral verbal arts, and visual arts from the Manual into the Companion. This means that the deep dives into such features originally contained in Conversation 4B in the 2013 Manual are now in the CLAT Companion. The Companion also provides three diverse case studies of CLAT applications and two new streamlined artistic genre research guides.

Finally, we quickly recognized the impossibility of capturing all of the growing number of important CLAT-related stories, articles, and tools in just two volumes. We thus designed an ever-expanding Digital Library for you to check out at www.clatmanual.com.