It is the Mass the matters. Ah, why Should we, in the world's riper years, neglect God's ancient sanctuaries, and adore Only among the crowd and under roofs That our frail hands have raised? I worship the quicksand he walks in. He wakes a portion with...
Although never discouraging private, incidental prayer, Judaism gives absolute priority to the formal worship of the community. Jewish law (halakhah) establishes that even individuals praying privately must first recite the fixed texts, meeting their...
Worship usually refers to specific acts of religious praise, honour, or devotion, typically directed to a supernatural being such as God, a god or goddess. It is the informal term in English for what sociologists of religion call cultus, the body of...
Preaching and Worship by Thomas H. Troeger Preaching and its Partners. Chalice, St. Louis, 2003. 137 pp. $19.99. ISBN 0-8272-2978-X. PREACHING AND WORSHIP IS THE most recent book in the "Preaching and Its Partners" series published by Chalice Press. This series explores the...
A Theology of Worship. By Louis Weil. Cambridge, Mass.: Cowley Publications, 2002. xiii + 160 pp. $11.95 (paper). The newest release in the New Church's Teaching Series is a consideration of worship by Louis Weil, Hodges Professor of Liturgies at the Church Divinity...
While most of today's TV shows struggle to post decent ratings amid an increasingly media-fractured landscape, American Idol returned for a sixth season in mid-February with a ratings high, drawing an estimated 37.7 million viewers. Not to mention the show brings in 1 billion...
Sundays at the evangelical Grace Chapel megachurch look like the American ideal of race relations: African-American, Haitian, white, Chinese and Korean families sing along with a white, guitar-playing pastor.U.S. churches rarely have this kind of ethnic mix. But that's changing. Researchers who study race and...
