Finding Words for Worship: A Guide for Leaders

Ruth Duck provides a much-needed how-to book for creating unique and creative worship resources, including prayers, hymns, and sermons. She presents methods and models for creating these new resources while remaining scripturally relevant and mindful of inclusive-language concerns. This is an invaluable guide for those involved in writing or evaluating worship services.

Ruth C. Duck has recently retired to Claremont, California, after teaching twenty-eight years as a professor of Worship at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in Evanston, Illinois. Her writings about Christian worship include Finding Words for Worship and Praising God: The Trinity in Christian Worship, published by Westminster John Knox Press. A prolific writer of songs for worship, she has hymn texts appearing in hymnals in many countries and denominations, and she has been honored as a Fellow of the Hymn Society in the United States and Canada in recognition of her contributions to congregational song.