Tradition is not just information about God, or correct words and ritual forms. It is rather a living encounter with God.
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Author: Mark Roosien
In What Sense is the Byzantine Rite Eastern?
Liturgical traditions should play no part in today’s dangerous rhetoric of East versus West
Read moreWebinar at Yale ISM: Religion and the War in Ukraine
The Yale Institute of Sacred Music will be holding a virtual webinar this Friday, March 11, at 2:30PM Eastern Time, titled “Unorthodox War: Religion and
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Between Epiphany and Lent: A Soft Point in the Liturgical Year
What if we envisioned the “empty” period of time between Epiphany and Lent as an opportunity for making meaning?
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Report from the 2022 Annual Meeting of NAAL
Despite rapidly-rising case levels of Covid-19, the North American Academy of Liturgy held its annual meeting in person in Kansas City, MO from January 2-5 this year
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Table vs. Altar: A Creative Tension
Can table and altar still speak to each other?
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Climate Despair and Liturgical Hopefulness
Liturgical hopefulness does not look for some other world to which we can “fly away” as this one burns
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A Pilgrimage to the Earth
The earth itself, the Alaskan earth—St Herman’s earth—was my relic, my pilgrimage souvenir. A sign of hope amidst corruption.
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