Each month ELCA Worship highlights resources from Augsburg Fortress Publishers that support worship leaders, worship planners, musicians, and all who care about the worship of the church. ELCA Worship also features resources from other partners in a monthly blog post.
The Three-Day Feast: Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter
Recent decades have witnessed the revival of the ancient liturgies of the Three Days—Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and the Easter Vigil. In this book Gail Ramshaw gives a little history and a lot of suggestions about how these services can enrich the worship life of your entire assembly.
Using Evangelical Lutheran Worship, Vol 2: The Christian Life
This volume of Using Evangelical Lutheran Worship focuses on the formative role of baptism not only for the individual being baptized but the church. After it examines baptism and the related rites of affirmation of baptism, welcome to baptism, and confession, it moves to consider other rites in which the baptismal center is clearly seen: Healing, Funeral, and Marriage. Also available as an eBook.
Forged: Following Jesus into a New Kind of Family 
The Jesus Way calls us into community with others to form a new kind of family— a forged family. In an era when relationships with our families of origin are more complicated than ever, pastor T. C. Moore shows us how following the way of Jesus can lead us to forged families that are authentic and life-giving. Forged weaves together stories from the author’s experience with urban, multiethnic ministry all over the US, principles from Scripture, and his own experience as an ex-gang member turned church planter and pastor. It proposes a way of approaching faith in community that rejects hierarchical, bureaucratic structures in favor of formative, inclusive friendships that last.
Psalms: The Prayer Book of the Bible
Before the Nazis banned him from publishing, German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer published this book on the Psalms. This classic reveals how the Psalms are essential to the life of the believer and offers Bonhoeffer’s reflections on psalms of thanksgiving, suffering, guilt, praise, and lament. Now with an introduction by Walter Brueggemann and excerpts from the Psalms, Bonhoeffer’s timeless work offers contemporary readers ancient wisdom and resources for the living of these days.
Mystery Manifest: The Triune God, Figuratively Speaking
Renowned liturgist and scholar Gail Ramshaw mines the treasures of the Bible, patristic sermons, theological treatises, mystical reveries, liturgical texts, hymns, and poetry to craft a richly textured collection and framework for thinking about the language Christians use to address and describe the triune God. More than a compilation, Mystery Manifest is a volume that liturgists, ministers, and theologians will return to again and again seeking wisdom and insight into the figures of speech humans have developed to express the ineffable. Scholars and ministers alike will want to keep a copy readily available on their shelves for liturgical study, homiletical preparation, worship preparation, and theological reflection.
Summer Music Clinics
Join us this summer for our annual music clinics. This year’s phenomenal clinicians are Jennaya Robison (choral) and Jan Kraybill (organ). Check out our website to read more about these talented practitioners, explore the daily schedule, and register for a clinic in your area!
- July 18–19, Columbia, S.C.
- July 21–22, Columbus, Ohio
- July 24–25, Philadelphia, Pa.
- August 11–12, Twin Cities, Minn.
- August 14–15, Chicago, Ill.