Augsburg Fortress is the publishing ministry of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
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.
Hold My Hope: Songs of Ana Herández
Hold My Hope: Songs of Ana Hernández contains short songs for worship, meditation, and prayer. This engaging collection provides a wide variety of musical styles, including simple melodies, rounds, call-and-response tunes, echo songs, canons, zipper songs (fill-in-the-blank songs), and mashups. These songs encourage participation and improvisation from both the leader and the assembly in order to deepen our connection with God, each other, and the world around us. Additional notes provide tips for how to lead these songs in your context.
Ana Hernández is a composer, arranger, workshop facilitator, activist, song leader, and author. She travels around collaborating with groups small and large to deepen community and create beautiful liturgies in many different styles. Ana’s work aims to bring each of us to a sustainable place where we can show up, be present, and listen generatively, in order to remember how beloved we all are.
Luther’s Small Catechism App
Luther’s Small Catechism / El Catecismo Menor de Lutero has been recreated as a web app that is now available for access. View Luther’s explanations in the Small Catechism, along with other catechetical helps and prayers in this progressive web app designed for mobile devices, tablets, and computers.
Kids Celebrate
Engage kids in worship with these rich booklets that invite kids to explore and engage with the themes in worship and All Creation Sings. Designed to be used as an activity book during and after worship, this resource encourages kids to explore the hymnal and record their learnings.
Booklet Themes: Creation, Hymns and Songs, The Trinity, and Worship.
Speaking on Anger: Preaching That Embodies Texts and Contexts
In Speaking on Anger, Cas Wepener shows how preachers can incorporate anger responsibly into liturgy and sermons as expressions of God’s love. Wepener argues that preachers become agents of redemptive interruption as they confront injustices using anger with sensitivity. This book speaks to readers who value prophetic preaching and healing worship.