liturgy

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Alternative liturgy

Social media as ritual

Feb 20, 2013 by James K. A. Smith

If Christian liturgy works on the imagination, so do disordered secular liturgies. Social media—despite its good uses—might be one example.

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Worship without walls

Taking liturgy to the streets

Sep 24, 2012 by Benjamin M. Stewart

Public ritual might be construed as a benign relic, as imperialism or as marketing. Or it might be seen as a form of pilgrimage.

Books

Christian juxtapositions: Holy Things and Holy People

Jul 28, 1999 by Byron D. Stuhlman

Though the World Council of Churches' consensus document Baptism, Eucharist, and Ministry is a work of enormous significance, it may strike one as bland. Gordon Lathrop, a Lutheran theologian, presents much the same material in two books (the first published in 1993) that are lively, provocative and challenging.

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Editing the Bible

Nov 05, 2010 by Adam J. Copeland

Does my pastoral role call upon me to edit the Bible?

On most Sundays, the call to worship printed in our bulletin is taken directly from liturgical resources from the denomination. Usually it adapts a psalm so that the leader (a liturgist, not me) and the rest of the congregation alternate speaking the verses.

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Let us say what we believe

Jul 21, 2010 by Tom Johnson

David Heim’s recent post reminded me of how the creed is introduced in worship in the last two churches where I’ve belonged.

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Bodies at worship

Formed by liturgy

Sep 22, 2009 by Scott Walters

I learned to install a door one day in small-town Arkansas, on a nondescript tract home with pinkish, mottled brick that was dated even before the mason finished his work. The door was delivered from the lumberyard as a unit, already hinged and hung in its jamb, and my boss, Dave, gave me all the information I needed to install it.

Books

Words for worship

Jun 30, 2009 reviewed by Shawnthea Monroe

The Christian Century