Tommy Faulconer: Blog 5

Liturgical dance has become an increasingly more common form of worship in the Presbyterian church over the last few years. In my opinion, this is the church's way of returning to the older style of worship in which dance was regularly used in worship. The other forms of worship used in the church are prayer and song so it makes sense to also use the body as a way to worship the divine. In the history of the religion, our bodies were created by God, and he set them into motion since the beginning. It is only logical to praise and thank him/her for giving us motion through putting that motion to the use of praise. The other week, the choir sang while the dancers moved their bodies to the rhythm of the music and lifted their hands frequently in a sign of lifting their movement to the heavens where their God dwells. It is a hopeful sign to see a church use dance in worship when so many other churches feel that dance is far too secular to be used even though it celebrates the movement and the rhythm we were created with through the divine.