Jill Crainshaw, Author at PrayTellBlog

Jill Crainshaw is the Blackburn Professor of Worship and Liturgical Theology at Wake Forest University School of Divinity in Winston-Salem, N.C. She loves to write and is the author of several books, including a collection of poetry. Her most recent publication is When I in Awesome Wonder: Liturgy Distilled from Everyday Life (Liturgical Press, 2018). Jill's personal blog can be found on her website, jillcrainshaw.com.

Professing Black Lives Matter

June 14, 2020 Jill Crainshaw

I grew up in a Lutheran church. We professed our faith by saying confessions and creeds. I am a Presbyterian now. We profess our faith

Through a Glass, Dimly

May 18, 2020 Jill Crainshaw c_THEOLOGY

COVID-19 Shaping Spiritual Communities COVID-19 dwells in the space between us. So we keep our distance. One nursing home in Cincinnati plans to use plexiglas

“Who Cooked the Last Supper?”

April 9, 2020 Jill Crainshaw

“Who cooked the Last Supper?” This question caught my attention when I saw it as the title of a a 2001 book by Rosalind Miles—Who Cooked the

With Our Eyes on the Sparrows: A Lenten Reflection for Uncertain Days

April 1, 2020 Jill Crainshaw Amen Corner c_THEOLOGY

Sparrows love the camellia bush just outside our back door. The bush bloomed with extraordinary enthusiasm this spring. Maybe the sparrows just can’t get enough

Sacred Scatteredness

March 17, 2020 Jill Crainshaw c_THEOLOGY

We may be scattered, but we are not alone. Listen! A sower went out to sow. Matthew 13:3b As this broken bread was scattered

Dust

February 25, 2020 Jill Crainshaw

I am dust; to dust I shall always return. But don’t assume as you disturb my rest with your omnipotent kitchen broom that I am

Photo by Jill Crainshaw, February 4, 2020

Wild Winter Liturgies

February 5, 2020 Jill Crainshaw

The cedar waxwings arrived yesterday. Waxwings are wonderful, mysterious birds. Here in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, their visits are brief. They come to our backyard for