Fewer and fewer ordination candidates are going to major seminaries in the Anglican tradition
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Author: Lizette Larson
Liturgical Formation in the Body of Christ: a Canadian Experiment
What are your new ways of rekindling the desire for God within Christian communities?
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The bizarre effects of Christmas bazaars
The rejection of a “mini” Lent theology of Advent (almost always without any sense of the history of the season) is growing alongside the tsunami of the retail Christmas.
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Teaching Liturgy and forming liturgical leaders: history, theology, spirituality and practice
I continue to be surprised that the course is truly introductory for so many students.
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All bodies are holy: heavenly bodies, juxtaposition, and weary women
Art ‘makes sense’ because it triggers the imagination flowering from something partially remembered and something partially known.
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Civic celebration or Christian funeral? The memorial for Sen. John McCain
It was a lab for what we do and what we believe about death and liturgy, and an incredibly confusing one at that.
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Ritually Responding to Disaster: Reporting from the Canadian National Worship Conference
What have churches learned from the expanding ritual repertoire of disaster response?
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Inculturation and imagination: the aesthetics of liturgical formation
I kept thinking I would hear Cree music; what I heard were Protestant hymns sung in Swampy Cree, N-dialect.
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At odds with ourselves: the calendrical conflicts of bi-ritual ecclesial communities
Many parishes have one Sunday liturgy using the prayer book, and the others using the newer resources.
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Standing together: the solidarity of prayer
I am not attempting to erase differences between Christianity and Islam or even advocate for interreligious prayer, but I find it helpful to reflect on how a visual and kinesthetic practice embodying an Islamic lex orandi lex credendi may function as a call to reflection on Christian liturgy and the importance of solidarity in body as well as spirit.
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