For the past ten years Marty and four colleagues have been presenting Living Liturgy Conferences for Lutherans and other Christians who are interested in worship renewal and collaborative strong worship leadership.
Who should
attend a Living Liturgy conference? All
those involved in leading worship—pastors, presiders and assisting ministers,
music directors, organists, those who play in worship bands, choir directors and
choir members, ministers of the Word. The
conference is structured to offer practical and easily implemented techniques
for all ministries, as well as deep theological, scriptural and liturgical
support for worship planning and renewal in this time of unprecedented societal
change in
For more information about sponsoring or attending a Living Liturgy Conference, go to our website:
The
Presenters
A fundamental principle of the Living Liturgy conference is that faithful, prophetic and meaningful worship must be a collaborative process. Our leadership team represents the best of clergy and lay presenters, preachers and musicians, ministers of the spoken and sung Word.
Susan Briehl has been a Lutheran pastor for twenty years, and has served parish, campus and retreat center settings. She is a consultant to the Valparaiso Project on Education and Formation of People in Faith. Her writings include Come, Lord Jesus, Devotions for Advent, Christmas and Epiphany, Prayer Around the Cross (with Tom Witt), Let the Children Come (in Sundays and Seasons, 2002), Way to Live, and several liturgical and hymn texts.
Ben Stewart studies and teaches liturgical theology at Emory University in Atlanta. Ben speaks at academic and church events, and has published articles in a number of journals, including Worship, CrossAccent, and Liturgical Ministry. He is especially interested in how Christian liturgy can foster love and care for the earth. Ben previously served as pastor to a small congregation in the Appalachian region of Ohio and to Holden Village, a retreat center in the North Cascade Mountains of Washington.
Marty
Haugen is
a liturgical composer and pastoral musician from
Mary
Preus is
a singer, songleader and choir director, currently directing music at Our
Saviour’s
Tom
Witt
has been keyboardist, worship leader, songleader for a wide variety of Lutheran
and ecumenical church events. He has
a depth of resources in worship planning and leads workshops on music, liturgy
and contemporary society. During
1999, Tom served as musician-in-residence at the Lutheran retreat center