Common Prayer: Reflections on Episcopal Worship

Common Prayer: Reflections on Episcopal Worship

Why worship? In this superb new collection of essays, lay people, clergy, poets, theologians, musicians, novelists, and scholars offer personal, profound, and provocative reflections on their experience of worship in The Episcopal Church. Through their flesh-and-blood stories of longing, loss, and love, we encounter the God who meets us in common prayer.  With contributions from: Rhonda Mawhood Lee, J. Neil Alexander, Michael Battle, Luisa Elena Bonillas, Cameron Dezen Hammon, Kelly Brown Douglas, Rodney Clapp, Melissa Deckman Fallon, Kim Edwards, Stephen Fowl, Paul Fromberg, Kathryn Greene-McCreight, Stanley Hauerwas, B. J. Heyboer, Ian Markham, Duane Alexander Miller, Joseph Pagano, Amy Peterson, Spencer Reece, Amy Richter, C. K. Robertson, Sophfronia Scott, Lauren Winner, Fred Bahnson, and Rachel Marie Stone. "This gracefully edited collection is a window into the transformative experience of shared liturgy in all its particularity, difficulty, and beauty. May these honest reflections open the eyes of our faith." --Sara Miles, author of Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion and City of God: Faith in the Streets "If Anglicanism claims to be catholic and reformed, then this winsome volume has the best of both: catholic in liturgy, protestant in testimony. Open this volume and meanwhile open your heart to be strangely warmed by the quirky, the moving, the profound, and the playful." --Sam Wells, Vicar of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London "In these pages you will see the Way of Jesus--the Way of Love--in reflections and recollections that both move the heart and inspire the spirit." --The Most Rev. Michael B. Curry, Presiding Bishop and Primate of The Episcopal Church The Rev. Joseph S. Pagano is Associate Rector at St. Anne's Episcopal Church in Annapolis, Maryland, and Affiliate Professor of Theology at Loyola University in Baltimore, Maryland. He is the author of The Origins and Development of the Triadic Structure of Faith in H. Richard Niebuhr . The Rev. Amy E. Richter currently serves as an appointed missionary of The Episcopal Church. She is a visiting lecturer in biblical studies at The College of the Transfiguration in Makhanda/Grahamstown, South Africa. She is married to Joseph Pagano. Stanley Hauerwas is professor emeritus of ethics at Duke University where he held the Gilbert T. Rowe chair for more than twenty years. Among his numerous publications are Sanctify Them in the Truth: Holiness Exemplified (1998) and Living Gently in a Violent World, with Jean Vanier (2008). His latest publication is Fully Alive: The Apocalyptic Humanism of Karl Barth (University of Virginia Press, 2023).