Exploring Worship Anew

In search of a way to worship that is relevant today and into the twenty-first century, Moeller proposes an approach based on the ""great commandment"" to love God and one's neighbor as oneself. With special attention to the time, space, sounds, sights, touches, and symbols that form the context of every worship service, she argues for a collaborative approach to the worship service in which the participants are involved from preparation to celebration. Illustrating this highly evocative, thoroughly feminist theology of worship is a sample service that pays particular attention to how the process and design of worship impact the experience of the worshipers. ""Pamela Ann Moeller has provided a fresh and original take on conventional approaches to worship in this engaging book. Readers should be prepared to be challenged and invited to understand and to enact their worship in ways that embody the gospel authentically and creatively."" Marjorie Procter-Smith Perkins School of Theology Southern Methodist University Pamela Ann Moeller has taught at the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan and at Emmanuel College (Victoria University) in the University of Toronto. She was ordained by and has served congregations in the Presbyterian Church. After more than a decade in Canada, she received standing in the United Church of Christ and served two congregations in that denomination. Recently retired, she is exploring life in New Mexico with her husband, Stephen Krajeck, and her mini-dachshund, Rosa.