When I in Awesome Wonder

Jill Y. Crainshaw is the Blackburn Professor of Worship and Liturgical Theology at the Wake Forest University School of Divinity. Crainshaw’s poetry has been published in several magazines, and she is the author of They Spin with Their Hands: Women’s Ordination Rites Transforming Communities of Faith (2015), Wisdom’s Dwelling Place: Exploring a Wisdom Liturgical Spirituality (2010), and Wise and Discerning Hearts: Introduction to a Wisdom Liturgical Theology (2000).

Contents
 
Prelude
Chapter 1: Awed by Your Signs
   Interlude: Out of the Ordinary
Chapter 2: O Taste and See
   Interlude: Saying Goodbye to the Night
Chapter 3: Tables in Wilderness Places
   Interlude: Encrypted! A Sermon Preached on the Occasion of World Communion
Chapter 4: Wherever the River Goes
   Interlude: Seeing Christ in the Abyss
Chapter 5: Bearing Witness, Birthing Hope
   Interlude: Bearing Witness and Baking Bread
Chapter 6: Last Year’s Nest
   Interlude: Answered Prayer
Chapter 7: We Never Made It to Thank You
   Interlude: Abide: A Sermon for an Ordination
Doxology: Bean Row Liturgies and Free Listening