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).

"Jill Crainshaw has offered us all a rich gift. Like a wise teacher, she has invited us to reexamine the ordinary experiences of our lives and find the extraordinary love of God within them. Like a compassionate prophet, she has drawn attention to the injustices of our world near and far and invited us to respond in small and large ways. Like an insightful poet, she offers texts that invite our repeated reading and our concerted contemplation. Like a loving pastor, she has interpreted scriptures and rites for us in provocative and practical ways that draw us nearer to our earth, our neighbors, our worship, and our God. Reading When I in Awesome Wonder may evoke such a deep sense of `wow,' you may not even make it to `thank you.'"Todd E. Johnson, Theological Director of the Brehm Center for Worship, Theology, and the Arts, Fuller Theological Seminary

• Contents  PreludeChapter 1: Awed by Your SignsInterlude: Out of the OrdinaryChapter 2: O Taste and SeeInterlude: Saying Goodbye to the NightChapter 3: Tables in Wilderness PlacesInterlude: Encrypted! A Sermon Preached on the Occasion of World CommunionChapter 4: Wherever the River GoesInterlude: Seeing Christ in the AbyssChapter 5: Bearing Witness, Birthing HopeInterlude: Bearing Witness and Baking BreadChapter 6: Last Year’s NestInterlude: Answered PrayerChapter 7: We Never Made It to Thank YouInterlude: Abide: A Sermon for an OrdinationDoxology: Bean Row Liturgies and Free Listening