We are excited about possibilities for the upcoming year. We’re especially looking forward to our Lent series, which this year will focus on the mystery of Christian Initiation: catechesis. This will be anchored by some guest bloggers, most notably Taylor Burton-Edwards OSL, Director of Worship Resources for the General Board of Discipleship of the United Methodist Church.

We’re still looking for field reports on innovative, contextualized, tradition-catapulted-into-contemporary-situations worship; the first of these will be coming up at the end of January, on a baptismal liturgy for firefighters…in the firehouse!

If you are interested in writing for LN, please contact us at liturgicalnerds [at] gmail [dot] com or hook up with us on Twitter @LiturgicalNerds — we look forward to this new year together, in the holy name of Jesus Christ:

Almighty God,
whose blessed Son was circumcised
in obedience to the law for our sake
and given the Name that is above every name:
give us grace faithfully to bear his Name,
to worship him in the freedom of the Spirit,
and to proclaim him as the Saviour of the world;
who is alive and reigns with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever.

Collect for the Naming & Circumcision of Jesus from Common Worship