In PrayTellBlog this past week there have been powerful reflections on aspects of our liturgical high holy days juxtaposed with the horrors of war and
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Category: Ritual Studies
Symbolic Dissonance
This sanctuary is decorated for Lent. I don’t think we’re even ready for a “blue-ish” purple vs. “red-ish” purple conversation here.
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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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On Human Formation and Body Language in Liturgy
The liturgy is replete with signs, symbols, and gestures meant to indicate particular things. However, at a fundamental human level, body language also speaks.
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Another Disaster, Another Ritual
Is religion in the public square the work of religions other than Christianity?
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When Do We Worship?
If we sometimes wonder why people find mass boring, perhaps the answer has something to do with how well our liturgical space and action evoke a natural sense of worship and true adoration of God.
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An ‘Abundance of Rituals’: selling spirituality in a systemic vacuum
A few weeks ago, Timothy Brunk contributed a blog to this site titled Corporation Rituals (28 September 2020). It caught my eye because it captures
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Corporation Rituals
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.”
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The Liturgies Marking the Passing of a Loved One
9/16/2019 – One Year Later It was one year ago this evening that I received an unexpected call from Life Alert saying that my mother
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Wait, can I do that?
In a time of pandemic, how do our own ritual practices around the liturgy change? What retains the same meaning with different attire, and what is added or lost?
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