Jill Y CrainshawThe Writing Work of the People
Liturgical Writing as Spiritual, Theological, and Prophetic Work
JILL Y. CRAINSHAW is Professor of Worship and Liturgical Theology at Wake Forest University School of Divinity and serves as University Ombuds for both Wake Forest and the UNC School of the Arts. The author of many books and articles, including When I in Awesome Wonder: Liturgy Distilled from Everyday Life and They Spin with Their Hands: Women's Ordination Rites: Renewing God's Story with God's People, she is also a published poet. Crainshaw is a Teaching Elder in the Presbyterian Church (US). She lives in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Acknowledgments
Prelude: Words Made Flesh Chapter 1: In the Beginning Is the Word
Chapter 2: And the Word Becomes Flesh
Interlude: wrinkling time Chapter 3: And Dwells Among Us Exercise #1:
Wrinkling Time
Chapter 4: Full of Grace and Truth Exercise #2: Call and Response
Interlude: Dust Chapter 5: Sing Them Over Again to Me Exercise #3: Writing
in Dust
Chapter 6: With Groanings Too Deep for Words Exercise #4: Crying Out to God
Interlude: sacramental seasons
Chapter 7: The Kin(g)dom of God Belongs to Them Exercise #5: The Writing
Work of the Children
Chapter 8: Eat This Scroll Exercise #6: Praying at the Table
Chapter 9: "In These or Similar Words" Exercise #7: "Sayin' Something"
Together
Conclusion
