I’m intrigued by this post and would like to discuss it further with you, if you’d be interested and/or willing to be quoted in a book I’m working on with my colleagues at the University of Notre Dame. In short, the purpose of this book is to provide an overview of major developments in the liturgical practices of Anglosphere Christian churches in the past fifty years. My chapter focuses on recent developments in the worship styles and practices of evangelical Protestant churches and affiliated groups. Since this post addresses many of the issues I’ve been noting and considering (the retrieval of ‘liturgical’ worship by certain Protestant groups/denominations, the ‘liturgies’ of contemporary Protestants, etc.), I’m very keen on hearing more of your thoughts, if you’d be willing to share them.

Here’s some info on me: I’m a Protestant Ph.D. student in the Liturgical Studies track of the Department of Theology at Notre Dame. My undergraduate studies were completed at Biola University in La Mirada, CA, where I also met C.J. Casciotta of who was, in fact, the one who directed me to Slingshot group.

Thanks for your consideration!

Cara

“Build houses and live in them; plant gardens and eat their produce. 6 Take wives and have sons and daughters; take wives for your sons, and give your daughters in marriage, that they may bear sons and daughters; multiply there, and do not decrease. 7 But seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the LORD on its behalf, for in its welfare you will find your welfare.”

If that is not about laying roots, I don’t know what is!

“Um singers… sing that breathier with less ‘churchy’ vibrato.”

“Let’s really be mindful of the words to this song”

-or-

“Can you add some more delay to that?”