Janet Walton

Eucharist and Globalization

Preaching & Worship

“To gather around a eucharistic table is to practice participation in a world where unconditional hospitality permeates every word, sound, and action. Maybe it's a pipe dream. Not for Carvalhaes. It is urgent, necessary, and possible. Life and death are at stake.”

Recovering Communion in a Violent World

Preaching & Worship

“With this book, Christopher Grundy asks Christians to re-think and change the practices they use for Communion. As they are traditionally enacted, Grundy argues, they lead congregations to participate in a re-enactment of an execution, the death of Jesus. Instead, he proposes practices that affirm love, solidarity, and agency, the heart of Jesus’ witness. What at first seems shocking is, by the end of the book, exactly what is needed to contest what is seldom examined.”

Worship in the Spirit of Jesus

Preaching & Worship

“[The authors] argue persuasively that the violence in our Bible has serious implications for our liturgical assemblies and thus for our daily living. Violence begets violence. But, they do not stop with their propositions. Instead, they provide examples of fresh, evocative liturgies, drawn from the stories and witness of Jesus and the lives of Christian communities committed to nonviolence.”