Liturgy

Three books to read on church life and ministry this month.

Is the way we talk to God for our comfort or for his glory?

Every Moment Holy author Douglas McKelvey on writing prayers for the moments both sacred and mundane.

My nondenominational church is having its first Ash Wednesday service today. But why start now?

What do myth, wilderness, and ancient story have to teach a culture drowning in information but starving for meaning?

Steven Félix-Jäger’s new volume on biblical, aesthetic, theological, and pastoral considerations in worship will serve many churches.

The church calendar can help us address our frenzied pace of life.

Phylicia Masonheimer is right: Household disciplines can encourage faithfulness. But they can also encourage idolatry.

Michael Huerter’s The Hybrid Congregation is an earnest effort to enrich our worship. It is also naive, superficial, incurious, and wrong.

I love liturgy, but it’s not a means to make better, cooler, more politically with-it Christians. It doesn’t even guarantee orthodoxy.