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How might Ambrose of Milan, Hildegard of Bingen, and Catherine of Siena inspire us to improve Sunday worship? What about Lawrence, John of Damascus, Thomas Cranmer, Johannes Kepler, Margaret Fell, and Dorothy Day? Even Amy Carmichael can point our assemblies toward more profound worship. In Saints on Sunday, Lutheran laywoman Gail Ramshaw, listening to twenty-four sainted voices, proposes how our past might enliven our future. Characterized by rigorous scholarship and no-nonsense honesty, her essays suggest ways to enrich the gathering, word, meal, and sending of our assemblies on Sunday.
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"Here is a book to make us think-with Gail Ramshaw, in the company of saints, and for ourselves-about what 'Sunday' could be if we took to heart the wisdom from the past assembled in these pages. As sagacious as ever, and in the most personal voice in her own writing since Under the Tree of Life twenty years ago, Gail Ramshaw continues to offers us vivid, winsome, lively reading. A wonderful book.
Stephen Burns, Professor of Liturgical and Practical Theology, Pilgrim Theological College
"Here is some of the richest fruit of Gail Ramshaw's fifty-some years spent studying and constructing liturgical language. In her wise and sparkling treatment, these twenty-four saints ask us to examine our ways of worship to consider adopting faithfully the practices of other communions, accommodating both introverts and extroverts, noticing the poverty of liturgical rigidity, and much more. If n
The Rev. Melinda A. Quivik, PhD, Editor-in-Chief, Liturgy, President, North American Acade
"Gail Ramshaw enjoys conversations. The gathering around the table with her and other guests generates conversation with fascinating stopping points and vistas, which always return to a center point of a love for the church and liturgy. This book offers a series of conversations with friends of Gail Ramshaw. These 'twenty-four elders' (Rev. 4:4), invited from the list of the church's long history,
Rev. Michael G. Witczak, SLD, Associate Professor of Liturgical Studies and Sacramental Th