Category: Ecumenism
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Book Review: When Church Stops Working
A specially designed, shorter text, aimed at reaching ordinary people, clergy as well as lay, in serious reading and reflection on the local church, namely the parish.
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Brief Book Review: Historical Foundations of Worship
A common basis for the study of liturgical history that can be appreciated by readers of any Christian tradition.
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Amen Corner: Orthodoxy’s Kryptonite
With the approach of Orthodox Pascha, Pray Tell’s Nicholas Denysenko offers pointed words on the relationship between Orthodoxy and the ongoing war in Ukraine in this quarter’s Amen Corner.
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In This Issue: Ex Fonte 1 (2022)
Features explore ḥūḏrā of the Assyrian Church of the East, Carthusian stole practice as a potential model for women in the diaconate, the funerary rituals of E II R, and much more!
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New Open-Access, Ecumenical Journal Powered by the University of Vienna
A new international and ecumenical scholarly journal focuses on bringing global scholarship together in discourse.
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Calvin Institute Rebrands Preaching and Worship Database
A newly rebranded database from the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship “helps you uncover thought-provoking resources so that you and others may continue your journey of faith.”
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‘A wandering we’ll go,’ ecumenical Advent lessons
Purple versus blue, Christmas songs everywhere by Halloween, Black Friday, the imposition of urgency in consuming…the usual rush around Advent – we all live immersed in some of it every year around the end of November. In the US, Thanksgiving (particularly the Thanksgiving triduum of Thursday, Black Friday, and football) overshadows the beginnings of…
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Book Review: Remove the Pews
“Contrary to the trend among some to sell off or completely redo sacred spaces, Schaper insists that they have deep roots in neighborhoods, in families, in peoples hearts even if they do not regularly attend services in them.”
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Brief Book Review: Theological Foundations of Worship
This collection represents scholarship from a variety of denominations and “churchmanships” and shows the remarkable points of convergence in the theologies of liturgy.