Crafting Common Worship
A Practical, Creative Guide to What's Possible
by Peter Moger with case studies by Tim Lomax
Paperback
Price: £12.99
Publisher:Church House Publishing (CHP) part of Hymns Ancient & Modern
Published:November 2009
ISBN:978-0-715-14201-1
GoodBookStall Review:
This is both a useful guide to planning services using Common Worship and a celebration of Common Worship’s implications for contemporary worship. Its core message is that worshipping communities are encouraged to be flexible even within familiar liturgical contexts. It tells how to find resources for many different occasions and congregations from the many volumes of Common Worship. It explains what canon law allows and discourages. Its ‘Case Studies’ range from familiar liturgical services to Fresh Expressions, and an experimental ‘All-age liquid worship’; they cover Holy Communion, Services of the Word, and Pastoral Services. Above all, it claims that Common Worship enables the Church to reach new parts of the community. But it does assume leaders of worship have an existing familiarity with liturgical worship. It is a book for insiders.
Reviewer: Su Reid (22/05/10)
This is both a useful guide to planning services using Common Worship and a celebration of Common Worship’s implications for contemporary worship. Its core message is that worshipping communities are encouraged to be flexible even within familiar liturgical contexts. It tells how to find resources for many different occasions and congregations from the many volumes of Common Worship. It explains what canon law allows and discourages. Its ‘Case Studies’ range from familiar liturgical services to Fresh Expressions, and an experimental ‘All-age liquid worship’; they cover Holy Communion, Services of the Word, and Pastoral Services. Above all, it claims that Common Worship enables the Church to reach new parts of the community. But it does assume leaders of worship have an existing familiarity with liturgical worship. It is a book for insiders.
Reviewer: Su Reid (22/05/10)
