Ritual Excellence: Best Practices for Planning and Leading Liturgy

A leading expert shares important benchmarks for leading liturgy.

Grounded in Christian liturgical theology and how ritual forms the people who practice it, this book offers the principles at work in good liturgical practice, guidance for making liturgical choices, and best practices in leading and presiding over liturgical worship.

Topics include curating liturgy and leading with excellence, principles for liturgical planning and presiding, and best practices for the Eucharist, Baptism, and the Holy Week and the Sacred Triduum. The author draws on his wide-ranging work in ritual theory to provide a practical guide that clergy and lay leaders in the Episcopal Church will find to be an essential resource. Those in other denominations will also find this book to be a useful reference in standard setting.