Notes on Contributors

Cláudio Carvalhaes is a Professor of Worship at the Union Theological Seminary, New York. Among other books he authored: Ritual at World's End: Essays on Eco-Liturgical Liberation Theology (The Barber's Son, 2021), Liturgies from Below: Prayers from People at the Ends of the World (Abingdon Press, 2020), Praying with Every Heart (Cascade Books, 2021), and Liturgy in Postcolonial Perspectives: Only One Is Holy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).

Jill Y. Crainshaw is a Professor of Worship and Liturgical Theology at the Wake Forest University School of Divinity.

Rev. Nicholas Denysenko is Emil and Elfriede Jochum University Professor and Chair and Professor of Theology at Valparaiso University in Indiana. He is a priest of the Orthodox Church in America.

James W. Farwell holds a dual appointment as a Professor of Theology and Liturgy at the Virginia Theological Seminary and H. Boone Porter Professor of Liturgics at the General Theological Seminary. He writes and teaches liturgical, sacramental, and comparative theology.

Joris Geldhof is a Professor of Liturgical Studies and Sacramental Theology at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, KU Leuven, Belgium. He is a Vice-Dean for Research and belongs to the Research Unit Pastoral and Empirical Theology. He also chairs the Liturgical Institute. In the latter capacity, he is also the editor-in-chief of the bilingual journal Questions Liturgiques.

Julie Gittoes is the Vicar of St Mary's and Christ Church Hendon and Area Dean of Barnet in the Diocese of London. Following postgraduate studies in Durham and Cambridge, she has published on anamnesis/the Eucharist, ecclesiology, marriage, theology, and the arts. She is a member of the Faith and Order Commission of the Church of England.

Steven Kepnes is a Professor of World Religions and Jewish Studies in the Religion Department at Colgate University.

The Rev. Canon Lizette Larson-Miller, PhD, is currently a Professor of Liturgy and Sacramental Theology at the Bexley Seabury Seminary in Chicago, as well as the canon precentor for the Diocese of Huron (Anglican Church of Canada). She has just completed a term of serving as interim priest for the parish of St. Mark's (Berkeley, CA). Her first degrees were in music, followed by an MA in liturgical studies (St. John's, Collegeville), and a PhD in liturgical history and sacramental theology (GTU, Berkeley). She is the author of four books and numerous articles, including Sacramentality Renewed (2016), and has been president of both Societas Liturgica and IALC (a network of the Anglican Communion). She is active in giving talks on liturgy and sacramental theology and ecumenical issues in a variety of settings, including the address last January (2024) in Seattle when she received the Berakah Award at the North American Academy of Liturgy.

Gordon W. Lathrop is the Schieren Professor Emeritus of Liturgy at the United Lutheran Seminary (USA) and a pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. He has degrees from Occidental College (Los Angeles) and the Luther Theological Seminary (St. Paul), a doctorate in New Testament studies from Catholic University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, and an honorary doctorate in theology from the University of Helsinki, the University of Iceland, the Virginia Theological Seminary, and the Wartburg Theological Seminary. He is the author of several books, including Holy Things: A Liturgical Theology (Fortress, 1993), The Four Gospels on Sunday: The New Testament and the Reform of Christian Worship (Fortress, 2012), Saving Images: The Presence of the Bible in Christian Liturgy (Fortress, 2017), and The Assembly: A Spirituality (Fortress, 2022). He is a past president of both Societas Liturgica and the North American Academy of Liturgy.

Sr. Maryann Madhavathu is a member of the Pala Jayamatha Province of the Congregation of the Mother of Carmel (CMC) and hails from Pala, Kerala, India. She has an MPhil in Physics and has been teaching physics in higher secondary schools for nine years in Kerala, India. She obtained her STB and STL from the Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium. She finished her PhD (STD) in Liturgical Studies from the same university in 2016. She has attended many international conferences in different countries and has presented papers on liturgy. She has published articles and book reviews in various international journals. She functioned as the director of the Women's Forum of the Syro-Malabar Eparchy of Great Britain. Currently, she serves the congregation as the Prefect of Studies of the theological institute, Carmel Jyothi Vidya Bhavan, Aluva, Kerala, and is the general PRO of CMC.

Bruce T. Morrill, SJ, holds the Edward A. Malloy Chair in Roman Catholic Studies at Vanderbilt University, where he is a Distinguished Professor of Theology in the Divinity School and Graduate Department of Religion. In addition to some two hundred articles, chapters, and reviews, he has published 11 books, including Divine Worship and Human Healing (2009), Encountering Christ in the Eucharist (2012), and Practical Sacramental Theology (2021).

Bridget Nichols lectures in Anglicanism and Liturgy at the Church of Ireland Theological Institute in Dublin. She is a past president of Societas Liturgica and co-editor of two recent collections: (with Gordon Jeanes) Lively Oracles of God: Perspectives on the Bible and Liturgy (Liturgical Press, 2022); (with Nicholas Taylor) The End of the Church? Conversations with the Work of David Jasper (Sacristy Press, 2022).

Karen O'Donnell is the Academic Dean at Westcott House - an Anglican Theological College in Cambridge. She teaches liturgy, trauma theology, sacramental theology, and pedagogy. She also traces Gender and Christian Theology for the Divinity Faculty at Cambridge University. Her previous projects include an edited volume on pregnancy and theology entitled Theologies from the Inside Out: Critical Conceptions of Pregnancy and Theology with Claire Williams and a monograph titled Survival: Radical Spiritual Practices for Trauma Survivors. Both projects are with SCM Press.

Timothy P. O'Malley is the Academic Director of the Notre Dame Center for Liturgy in the McGrath Institute for Church Life. He holds a concurrent appointment in the Department of Theology at the University of Notre Dame.

Adam A. Perez is an Assistant Professor of Worship Studies at Belmont University in Nashville, TN.

Catherine Pickstock is the Norris-Hulse Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge.

Neal D. Presa is an executive presbyter of the Presbytery of San Jose. He is an Affiliate Professor of Preaching at the Fuller Theological Seminary and a Fellow of the Center for Pastor Theologians. He is a past Moderator of the 220th General Assembly (2012) of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). He represents the denomination at both the WCC Central Committee and Executive Committee, where he leads the finance committee. He is the author/editor of over 100 published essays/book chapters and book reviews and nine books including the recent Worship, Justice, and Joy (Cascade, 2025). For more info: NealPresa.com

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Ronald Rienstra is the Professor of Preaching and Worship Arts, the Director of Worship Life at the Western Theological Seminary, and the Academic Director at the Bast Center for Christian Proclamation.

The Rev. Dr. Amy C. Schifrin, STS, is the President Emeritus of the North American Lutheran Seminary and an Associate Professor of Liturgy and Homiletics (ret.) at the Trinity School for Ministry.

Zoe Cordes Selbin is a Curate at St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Austin, TX.

Dr. Rebecca F. Spurrier is an Associate Dean for Worship Life and an Assistant Professor of Worship at the Columbia Theological Seminary. She integrates a focus on disability studies and liturgical theology in the classroom with the formation of worship leaders through weekly chapel services. She is interested in a theology and practice of public worship that reflects the beauty and tension human difference brings to Christian liturgy.

Rev. Dr. Kristine Suna-Koro is a Professor and Chair of the Theology Department at Xavier University in Cincinnati, OH, USA. She is a diasporic Latvian-American theologian who works at the intersection of postcolonialism, sacramental and liturgical studies, and modern historical theology while engaging migration and diaspora discourses. She has authored the trailblazing study in postcolonial sacramental theology In Counterpoint: Diaspora, Postcoloniality, and Sacramental Theology (2017) and numerous articles and book chapters engaging postcolonial perspectives on sacraments, liturgy, migration, and theological aesthetics. Since her ordination in 1995, she has served as a pastor in the diasporic Latvian Evangelical Lutheran communities in Great Britain, Germany, and the United States.

The Rev. Dr. Porter C. Taylor (PhD, University of Aberdeen) serves as the rector of Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd in Augusta, GA. He is also an Affiliate Assistant Professor of Christian Worship at the Fuller Theological Seminary. Porter is the contributing editor of We Give Our Thanks Unto Thee: Essays in Honor of Fr. Alexander Schmemann (Pickwick, 2019) and the forthcoming monograph A...