Timothy Brunk, Author at PrayTellBlog

Timothy Brunk is associate professor of theology at Villanova University where he teaches courses in sacramental theology, liturgy and culture, and pastoral care of the sick. His The Sacraments and Consumer Culture (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2020) examines the relationships between worship and consumerism. He has published in Horizons, Worship, American Catholic Studies, Studia Liturgica, and elsewhere.

Corporation Rituals

September 28, 2020 Timothy Brunk Do It Rite Ritual Studies

On 28 August, the New York Times ran a story with the headline “God Is Dead. So Is the Office. These People Want to Save Both.”

An Assault at Mass

August 25, 2020 Timothy Brunk Eucharist

On 23 August, during Sunday Mass at the Cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul in Philadelphia, a lector was assaulted.

Liturgies and Shopping Carts

July 19, 2020 Timothy Brunk Liturgical Spirituality

When we come to liturgy looking for stability, in what ways are we more or less unintentionally kicking the shopping cart?

Statues, Continued: Symbols Are Actions

June 24, 2020 Timothy Brunk Eucharist Sacramental Theology

Symbols are not static.

The Liturgical Sensorium and COVID-19

May 11, 2020 Timothy Brunk c_THEOLOGY Liturgical Spirituality

I hear the Word of God proclaimed in juxtaposition not to a statue of St. Augustine but to two toy statues of Godzilla and Monster Zero in my living room.