2025: Annual Meeting, Valparaiso, Indiana, 2-5 January

Published: 2025-09-05

Full Issue

• PDF: PROCEEDINGS OF THE NORTH AMERICAN ACADEMY OF LITURGY, VALPARAISO INDIANA 2025

Foreword

• Front Matter

  • PDF: FRONT MATTER

• Foreword

  Jason J. McFarland (Author)

  • PDF: FOREWORD, JASON J. MCFARLAND

• Table of Contents

  • PDF: TABLE OF CONTENTS 2025

Part 1: Plenary Sessions

• Introduction to the Vice-Presidential Address

  Kimberly Hope Belcher (Author)

  • PDF: INTRODUCTION TO THE VICE-PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS, KIMBERLY HOPE BELCHER

• Vice Presidential Address: Speaking to Religious Hybridity

  James Farwell (Author)

  • PDF: VICE-PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS, SPEAKING TO RELIGIOUS HYBRIDITY, JAMES W. FARWELL

• The Case for Celebrating a Feast of Creation around the Equinox

  Benjamin Stewart (Author)

  • PDF: THE CASE FOR CELEBRATING A FEAST OF CREATION AROUND THE EQUINOX, BENJAMIN M. STEWART

• Reflections on a Potential Feast of Creation: A Global Catholic Perspective

  Audrey Seah (Author)

  • PDF: REFLECTIONS ON A POTENTIAL FEAST OF CREATION: A GLOBAL CATHOLIC PERSPECTIVE, AUDREY SEAH

• A Free Church Perspective and Attending to the Experience of Ordinary Worshipers

  Sarah Kathleen Johnson (Author)

  • PDF: A FREE CHURCH PERSPECTIVE AND ATTENDING TO THE EXPERIENCE OF ORDINARY WORSHIPPERS, SARAH KATHLEEN JOHNSON

• Introduction to the Berakah Response

  Nathan P. Chase (Author)

  • PDF: INTRODUCTION OF THE BERAKAH RECIPIENT, NATHAN P. CHASE

• Berakah Award

  Alan Hommerding (Author)

  • PDF: BERAKAH AWARD

• Berakah Response, Liturgical Studies on a Planet in Peril: Reconceiving the "Cosmic" in Worship

  Teresa Berger (Author)

  • PDF: BERAKAH RESPONSE, LITURGICAL STUDIES ON A PLANET IN PERIL: RECONCEIVING THE "COSMIC" IN WORSHIP, TERESA BERGER

• President's Report to the Academy

  Kimberly Hope Belcher (Author)

  • PDF: PRESIDENT'S REPORT, KIMBERLY HOPE BELCHER

Part 2: Seminar Reports

• The Advent Project

  Suzanne Wenonah Duchesne (Author)

  • PDF: THE ADVENT PROJECT

• Christian Initiation

  Christina Ronzio (Author)

  • PDF: CHRISTIAN INITIATION

• Contemporary and Alternative Worship

  Nelson Cowan (Author)

  • PDF: CONTEMPORARY AND ALTERNATIVE WORSHIP

• Critical Theories and Liturgical Studies

  Sarah Kathleen Johnson (Author)

  • PDF: CRITICAL THEORIES AND LITURGICAL STUDIES

• Ecology and Liturgy

  Samuel Torvend (Author)

  • PDF: ECOLOGY AND LITURGY

• Environment and Art

  Martin Rambusch (Author)

  • PDF: ENVIRONMENT AND ART

• Feminist/Womanist Working Group

  Chelsea Yarborough (Author)

  • PDF: FEMINIST STUDIES IN LITURGY

• Formation in Liturgical Prayer

  Rodica Stoicoiu (Author)

  • PDF: FORMATION IN LITURGICAL PRAYER

• Homiletics

  Timothy Leitzke (Author)

  • PDF: HOMILETICS

• Issues in Medieval Liturgy

  Daniel DiCenso (Author)

  • PDF: ISSUES IN MEDIEVAL LITURGY

• Liturgical Hermeneutics

  Ron Anderson (Author)

  • PDF: LITURGICAL HERMENEUTICS

• Liturgical Language

  Jennifer Baker-Trinity (Author)

  • PDF: LITURGICAL LANGUAGE

• Liturgical Music

  Carl Bear (Author)

  • PDF: LITURGICAL MUSIC

• Liturgical Theology

  Jan Schnell (Author)

  • PDF: LITURGICAL THEOLOGY

• Liturgy and Cultures

  Ruth Meyers (Author)

  • PDF: LITURGY AND CULTURES

• Modern History of Worship

  Shawn Strout (Author)

  • PDF: MODERN HISTORY OF WORSHIP

• Problems in the Early History of Liturgy

  James Sabak (Author)

  • PDF: PROBLEMS IN THE EARLY HISTORY OF LITURGY

• Queering Liturgy

  Daniel Schlorff (Author)

  • PDF: QUEERING LITURGY

• Practitioners' Pre-Meeting Report

  Bryan Cones (Author)

  • PDF: PRACTITIONERS PRE-MEETING

Part 3: Select Seminar Papers

• Furnaces, Candles, and Other Tricks: Christian Clergy as Baptismal “Magicians”

  Nathan P. Chase (Author)

  • PDF: FURNACES, CANDLES, AND OTHER TRICKS: CHRISTIAN CLERGY AS BAPTISMAL "MAGICIANS", NATHAN P. CHASE

• Systematic Heortology: A Proposal

  Joris Geldhof (Author)

  • PDF: SYSTEMATIC HEORTOLOGY: A PROPOSAL, JORIS GELDHOF

• Artificial Intelligence and Liturgy: Eight Exploratory Trajectories

  Ricky Manalo (Author)

  • PDF: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND LITURGY: EIGHT EXPLORATORY TRAJECTORIES, RICKY MANALO, CSP

• Dipping a Ladle in the Cauldron of Story: Assessing Worship Leadership as Gospel Narration

  Jonathan Ottaway (Author)

  • PDF: DIPPING A LADLE IN THE CAULDRON OF STORY: ASSESSING WORSHIP LEADERSHIP AS GOSPEL NARRATION, JONATHAN OTTAWAY

• A Theological Comparison of the Prayers of Ordination of a Bishop in the Euchologion Barberini and the Sacramentarium Veronense

  Lorenzo Penalosa, OSB (Author)

  • PDF: A THEOLOGICAL COMPARISION OF THE PRAYERS OF ORDINATION OF A BISHOP IN THE EUCHOLOGION BARBERINI AND THE SACRAMENTARIUM VERNONENSE, LORENZO PENALOSA, OSB

• Conflating Unity with Uniformity: Celebrating the Eucharist in the Context of Indigenous-Settler Reconciliation

  Erik Sorensen (Author)

  • PDF: CONFLATING UNITY WITH UNIFORMITY: CELEBRATING THE EUCHARIST IN THE CONTEXT OF INDIGENOUS-SETTLER RECONCILIATION, ERIK SORENSEN, SJ

• Negotiating Liturgical Space Through Receptive Ecumenism

  Mykayla Turner (Author)

  • PDF: NEGOTIATING LITURGICAL SPACE THROUGH RECEPTIVE ECUMENISM, MYKAYLA TURNER