## Summary Kathryn Ritsema Roelofs is a Reformed worship leader and writer associated with the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship (CICW). Her work includes public CCLI-vetting essays and pastoral writing on worship formation for people in varied vocations. ## Tradition Mainline / Reformed. Works inside the Christian Reformed Church (CRC) and Calvin Institute milieu. ## Contributions to the wiki's domain ### CCLI vetting A named contributor to the Calvin Institute's CCLI Top 100 vetting work. Her pieces apply Reformed faith-formation criteria to specific songs, publishing reasoning as well as verdicts. This is the project most directly usable by St. John's UCC when approaching its own song list (Source: Readwise/Articles/Vetting CCLI Worship Songs for Faith Formation - Calvin Institute of Christian Worship.md). ### Worship formation for workers Her writing on leading worship for people in specific vocations — workers, in the piece cited here — extends the Calvin Institute's pastoral-formation frame. Worship is not only a Sunday event; it forms people for Monday. This is an argument adjacent to the [[Blended Worship]] convergence posture (Source: Readwise/Articles/Kathryn Roelofs on Leading Worship for Workers - Calvin Institute of Christian Worship.md). ## Why she matters here Roelofs sits at a useful triangulation point for a UCC worship team: 1. Reformed enough to hold theological rigor on CCLI songs. 2. Pastoral/formational rather than regulative-principle gatekeeping. 3. Writes publicly with reasoning, so criteria can be borrowed. Her work is cross-usable by mainline congregations in a way that [[Scott Aniol]]'s is not. ## Open questions > [!question] Cross-reference for St. John's > Which specific CCLI Top 100 songs has Roelofs addressed? A targeted cross-reference would help the St. John's worship team adopt or reject songs with documented reasoning. This is a worthwhile follow-up ingest — pull the full Calvin Institute vetting set when available. > [!question] Vocation-worship parallel > Her worship-for-workers argument has an untapped progressive-Christian parallel. Could the same formational posture be translated into a mainline / UCC context without the Reformed doctrinal frame? ## Further reading - [[Worship Music Vetting Projects]] — includes the institutional context for Roelofs's CCLI work - [[Calvin Institute of Christian Worship]] — institutional host - [[Blended Worship]] — adjacent liturgical frame