10/20/2019
Psalm 122
Christian DaPonte
Christian DaPonte is Oak Church’s Pastoral Intern for the 2019-20 academic year from Duke Divinity School. He was born in the USA’s northern neighbor in the great city of Vancouver, BC, his family moved across the continent to metro Atlanta where he was raised and calls his hometown. He went to Samford University in Birmingham, AL, and majored in Music and minored in Religion. After graduating in 2018, he came to Durham to continue his studies and pursue a Masters of Divinity at Duke Divinity School.
Christian enjoys watching my favorite hockey team, the Vancouver Canucks, hiking, playing/writing music on the Oak Church music team, and watching indie movies. He’s worked as a tutor in Durham Schools, as a library assistant at the Duke Divinity library, and as an intern at Church World Service Refugee Resettlement in Durham. He’s passionate about the intersection between theology and the arts, philosophy of education, and the role of the local church in building community. In the future he hopes to build his own bass guitar, own a cat, work as a teacher, and serve in the local church.
Mentioned:
The Worship Architect by Constance Cherry
The Worship Pastor by Zac Hicks
Songs for Today’s Worship Gathering:
Jerusalem (Psalm 122) by Jeff Crawford
Those Who Trust by Chaffer
Thy Mercy, My God by Stocker/McCracken
Come, for the Feast is Spread by Burton/Gordon
How Can I Keep from Singing? by Lowry
Home by Deconto
Doxology
Other Resources:
Where Mortals Dwell by Craig Bartholomew
The Temple and the Church’s Mission by G.K. Beale
Sex, Economy, Freedom, & Community by Wendell Berry
The Land: Place as Gift, Promise, and Challenge in Biblical Faith by Walter Brueggemann
The Worship Architect by Constance Cherry
Placemaking and the Arts by Jennifer Allen Craft
Scripture, Culture, & Agriculture by Ellen F. Davis
Faithful Presence: Seven Disciplines That Shape the Church for Mission by David Fitch
The New Parish by Paul Sparks, Tim Soerens & Dwight Friesen
No Home Like Place by Leonard Hjalmarson
Seeing Jesus in East Harlem by José Humphreys
A Christian Theology of Place by John Inge
Sidewalks in the Kingdom by Eric O. Jacobsen
Race and Place by David Leong
Watershed Discipleship edited by Ched Myers
The Art of Neighboring by Jay Pathak & Dave Runyon
Slow Church: Cultivating Community in the Patient Way of Jesus by C. Christopher Smith
The Power of Proximity by Michelle Ferrigno Warren
The Case for the Psalms by N.T. Wright
