Author: Bruce Morrill
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Samaritan Sacramentality: 3rd Lenten Sunday, 1st Scrutiny
How to preach in the contemporary Roman Catholic context the complex story of a multiply divorced and remarried woman? How proclaim a word enabling two young men to be a sign of conversion for us all?
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Baptism, Eucharist, and Artistic Tokens of New Heavens and a New Earth
Now in its second decade on the stages of Nashville’s storied Ryman Auditorium and Lipscomb University, the Tokens Show presents lively entertainment as an ongoing “cultural experiment” pulling together Americana, folk, and contemporary music wherein music-making, song-singing, and conversations help imagine a world of beauty and wonder, justice and mercy, peace and graciousness.
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Reading Toward Writing Liturgical Theology
My pastoral-theological wager is that an as yet fully developed contemporary theology of the Easter Season, through examination of lectionary texts and the sacramental rites germane to Easter faith, can help form and invigorate believers’ self-appropriation as mutually responsible members of the body of Christ, priestly people with baptismal missions attuned to their particular life…
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Ordination to Sacramental Priesthood: Traditional, Communal, Familial
The community exuded a practical, liturgical and communal, ecclesiology of their corporate baptismal identity as “a royal priesthood” (1 Peter 2:9) through not only their robust engagement in the Divine Liturgy but also their affective, and thus effective, hospitality to us.
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65th Annual Liturgical Studies Week at Saint-Serge, Paris
Founded by the Benedictine Dom Bernard Botte (+1980) and Orthodox Father Cyprien Kern (+1960) and others, the conference has maintained the objective of scholarly research in pursuit of what does and can yet unite Christians in and through the liturgy. This year’s theme was “Le corps humain dans la liturgie” (“The Human Body in the…
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Liturgical Music and Design: Jesuit Ministry in Slovenia
The music, led by a small volunteer ensemble of voices, electric piano, and guitar, was almost entirely in the genre of “praise music,” taken from the repertoire of Hillsong and similar groups.
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Latest Issue of Questions Liturgiques, Including Article on Schmemann
Alexander Schmemann published a tight corpus of writings focused on articulating the irreducible, eschatological content of the liturgy as revelatory of divine redemption, while continuously insisting that this fundamental tradition of the church is doubly crippled by ignorance of its eschatological nature and mistaken efforts to draw contemporary social concerns into its practice.
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Responding to a Journalist’s Inquiry About Hell
How to respond to the question of hell in a relatively succinct manner (as desired in journalism) to a reporter (and her religiously pluralistic readership), whose even basic knowledge of Christianity I could not presume?
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Compelling Data about Religious Affiliation & Practice among Young Europeans
The rates of 16-to-29-year-olds religiously unaffiliated in England and France are 70% and 64%.