Lectionary Worship Workbook, Series II, Cycle a

The most impressive thing about Wayne Keller's body of ideas for worship through the Christian Year is his boldness. He is bold in planning worship that has to do with the reality of our congregations' experience in the world, rather than just lead people through a proper agenda of acts and words, which have no bearing on what we do the rest of the week. Keller is bold in bringing that real world -- with its pains and its pleasures, its hungers and its feasts, its beauty and its ugliness -- to exposure before the living God. And he is bold in shining the strong, exposing light of the transforming Word on our real lives, and on that real world.