{"id":27609,"date":"2014-10-11T11:27:04","date_gmt":"2014-10-11T16:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=27609"},"modified":"2014-10-11T15:43:51","modified_gmt":"2014-10-11T20:43:51","slug":"welcome-new-contributors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2014\/10\/11\/welcome-new-contributors\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome, New Contributors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re pleased to welcome a number of new contributors to <em>Pray Tell<\/em>. Some are brand new this fall; some joined us over the summer. Regardless, we\u2019re very glad to have each of them enter the discussion with us.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Burke.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-27598 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Burke.jpg\" alt=\"Burke\" width=\"120\" height=\"144\" \/><\/a>Bill Burke<\/strong> served as Associate Director of the English Sector National Liturgy Office of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) before returning recently to parish ministry. \u00a0A native of Main-\u00e0-Dieu, Nova Scotia, he has served as a parish priest for almost 30 years since his ordination to the priesthood in July of 1977. During that time he has been also a member of the Liturgical Commission of the Diocese of Antigonish. He holds a master\u2019s degree in liturgical studies from the University of Notre Dame.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Denysenco.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-27614\" src=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Denysenco.jpg\" alt=\"Denysenko\" width=\"267\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>Nicholas Denysenko<\/strong> received a Ph.D. in liturgical studies and sacramental theology from The Catholic University of America in 2008. He is assistant professor of theological studies and director of the Huffington Ecumenical Institute at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles where he teaches courses on liturgy and Eastern Christianity. He serves as deacon at St. Innocent Orthodox Church in Tarzana, California. He is currently working on a monograph treating liturgical reform in the Orthodox Church.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Harmon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-27618\" src=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Harmon.jpg\" alt=\"Harmon\" width=\"175\" height=\"175\" \/><\/a>Katharine E. Harmon<\/strong> is a lecturer in Theology at Marian University in Indianapolis, IN, where she teaches undergraduate courses in theology, liturgy, and liturgical music. She is an organist and church musician at St. Mark the Evangelist Parish in Indianapolis, IN. Katharine is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame&#8217;s Ph.D. program in Liturgical Studies, and the author of <em>There Were Also Many Women There: Lay Women in the Liturgical Movement in the United States<\/em>, 1926-1959 (Liturgical Press, 2013).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/TimBrunk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-27199\" src=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/TimBrunk.jpg\" alt=\"Timothy Brunk\" width=\"88\" height=\"125\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Timothy Brunk<\/strong> is associate professor of theology at Villanova University. He teaches courses in sacramental theology and in pastoral care of the sick. His major research focus at present is the interplay of consumer culture and sacramental worship and he has four articles in print on that subject.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Morrill.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-27621\" src=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Morrill.jpg\" alt=\"Morrill\" width=\"123\" height=\"185\" \/><\/a>Bruce Morrill, S.J., <\/strong>holds the Edward A. Malloy Chair of Catholic Studies at Vanderbilt University, where he is professor of Theological Studies in the Divinity School and Graduate Department of Religion. He preaches and presides regularly at Nashville&#8217;s Cathedral of the Incarnation and provides pastoral and liturgical ministry at Riverbend Maximum Security Prison. 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