{"id":41661,"date":"2018-04-23T08:23:23","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T13:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=41661"},"modified":"2018-04-28T09:44:31","modified_gmt":"2018-04-28T14:44:31","slug":"martin-seltz-wins-2019-berakah-award-of-naal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2018\/04\/23\/martin-seltz-wins-2019-berakah-award-of-naal\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Seltz to Receive 2019 Berakah Award of NAAL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.naal-liturgy.org\/\">North American Academy of Liturgy<\/a> has announced that the recipient of its coveted Berekah award for 2019 is Martin Seltz, longtime editor at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.augsburgfortress.org\/\">Augsburg Fortress Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2018\/04\/23\/martin-seltz-wins-2019-berakah-award-of-naal\/seltz\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-41662\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-41662 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Seltz.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"214\" \/><\/a>For twenty-four years, Martin has steered the liturgical publications of Augsburg Fortress Press (now called 1517 Media) as Worship and Music Editor, served on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commontexts.org\/\">Consultation on Common Texts<\/a>, and guided the development of the widely acclaimed worship book and hymnal, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.augsburgfortress.org\/store\/category\/286455\/Evangelical-Lutheran-Worship\"><em>Evangelical Lutheran Worship <\/em><\/a>(2006) and its family of resources. He has been a member of NAAL since 2001, served for six years as NAAL\u2019s treasurer, and has worked with the Liturgical Language Seminar and now the <a href=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2018\/01\/13\/catholic-lutheran-ecumenism-seminar-on-the-way\/\">Seminar on the Way<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Seltz will receive the Berakah Award at the NAAL Denver meeting in January 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to Martin Seltz!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seltz served as editor at Augsburg Fortress, served on the Consultation on Common Texts, and guided the development of the ELW hymnal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":41666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3116,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-new-ws","category-conferences-workshops-meetings"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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