Welcome to Verity. I'm your host, Felicia Masonheimer, an author, speaker, and Bible teacher.

This podcast will help you embrace the history and depth of the Christian faith. Ask questions,

seek answers, and devote yourself to becoming a disciple of Jesus Christ. You don't have to

settle for water down Christian teaching. And if you're ready to go deeper, God is just as ready

to take you there. This is Verity, where every woman is a theologian.

Well, hi, everybody, and welcome. I'm Felicia Masonheimer, and I am with every woman of theologian,

and tonight we have the privilege of interviewing my childhood friend and we in guest lecturer,

Alana Nelson, on the theology of worship. I am so excited to introduce you guys to Alana,

and give you a chance to hear from her expertise and what she has to share on this topic.

This is probably one of the most requested topics I've ever had. So, all right. Hi, Alana, welcome.

Hello, I can hear you. Perfect. Perfect. I'm so excited to do this. I'm so excited to say that.

Yeah, sorry. I know. I'm so excited. We haven't actually talked in person in a lot of years.

That's true. We basically, like, keep up an Instagram DMs, and then I'm like, can you please

give me some information on this? Okay, so I'm going to do your official introduction, but I want

you to flush it out for us a little bit. So, Alana is a guest lecturer at Wheaton College,

where she specializes in teaching introduction to music history, to non-music majors. A vital

component of the course is helping the students to recognize their role as kingdom worshipers,

that they were created to create, and to help them articulate a theology of the arts.

She has spent nearly a decade on the worship team of High Point Collective and currently resides

on a suburban farm with her husband, two boys, horses, goats, chickens, cats, and a dog.

Yes. So many animals. So many animals. Well, I am so excited to have you here, and we have

a lot to cover. I love, love, love. Some of the topics Alana gave me for content for this discussion.

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