The North American Academy of Liturgy, an ecumenical organization committed to liturgical renewal, is meeting in Vancouver, Canada this week. All day Thursday is open for denominational meetings (Catholic [Catholic Academy of Liturgy], Lutheran, United Methodist, Episcopal/Anglican, Reformed, Baptist) before things kick off with evening worship.
- There are a few plenum sessions, but most of the work of the Academy takes place in the seminars. In a series of posts, Pray Tell will tell you what the seminars are working on this year. Today’s post covers six seminars.
The Advent Project
- Elise Feyerhern, “Alpha and Omega: Reclaiming the Book of Revelation for Advent Worship and Beyond”
- Deborah Appler, “God’s Judgment or Justice? The Concept of Mishpat in Hebrew Scriptures”
- William Petersen: report on the International Anglican Liturgical Consultation, Societas Liturgica, and English Language Liturgical Consultation
- Review of William Petersen, What Are We Waiting For? Re-Imagining Advent for Time to Come
Christian Initiation
- Vicky Tufano, update on the Christian Initiation Seminar held in Chicago, Summer 2017
- Paul Turner, book presentation, Guide for Celebrating® Christian Initiation with Adults by Victoria Tufano, Paul Terner, Todd Williamson
- David Batchelder, book presentation, Pathways to Inner Grace
- Timothy Gabrielli, book presentation, Confirmation: How a Sacrament of God’s Grace Became All about Us
- Paul Turner, persentation on Amen Corner (Worship journal), “Conditional Baptism”
- Christine Condyles, dissertation chapter presentation, “‘Rights’ of Christian Initiation: Manifesting Sacramental Grace in Daily Life through a Divinized Nature”
- Steve Wilbricht, book chapter presentation, “What is ‘Baptismal Ecclesiology’?”, Baptismal Ecclesiology and the Order of Christian Funerals (forthcoming)
- Daniel Benedict, presentation, “Becoming the Story We Tell: Talk Outlines for Catechumenal Training Events”
Critical Theories and Liturgical Studies
- David Turnbloom, moderated discussion of Andrew Prevot, Thinking Prayer: Theology and Spirituality amid the Crises of Modernity
- Rebecca Spurrer, “Naming Aesthetics of Healing and Claiming”; respondent: Layla Karst
- Sarah Johnson, “Ritual Responses to Gun Violence in American Schools”
- Jason Smith, “Eucharist as the Gift of Political Language”; respondent: Gerald Liu
Ecology and Liturgy
- Presentation, Deacon Ron Berezan, founder of The Urban Farmer
- Samuel Torvend, book chapter TBA
- Benjamin Stewart, “Wisdom Motifs in Funeral Rites”
- Discussion of Gail Ramshaw, “Pray, Praise, and Give Thanks: A Collection of Litanies, Laments, and Thanksgivings at Font and Table (joint with Eucharistic Prayer and Theology and Liturgical Language seminar)
- Paul Galbreath, “Ecological Revisions in the Book of Common Worship”
Environment and Art
- Tour of Khalsa Diwan Gurdwara Ross Street Temple and Museum
- Tour of Christ Anglican Cathedral and/or St. James Anglican Church
- Julia Upton, “Repurposed Church Architecture”
- Suzanne Herold, TBA
- Richard Vosko, “The Theology of the Pecking Order: A Barn Yard Perspective on Places of Worship”
Eucharistic Prayer and Theology
- Bob Daly, reflections on ecological euchology and his eucharistic prayer
- Discussion of new eucharistic prayer of John Rempel
- Brent Peterson, on Luther and sacrifice; new eucharistic prayer of his
- Discussion of Gail Ramshaw, “Pray, Praise, and Give Thanks: A Collection of Litanies, Laments, and Thanksgivings at Font and Table (joint with Ecology and Liturgy and Liturgical Language seminars)
- Catherine Vincie, discussion of her eucharistic prayer in Worship and the New Cosmology
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