About this journal

Aims and scope

Liturgy is a quarterly resource for studying, preparing, and celebrating Christian worship. It offers practical help and reflections for educators, musicians, pastoral ministers, and parish liturgy committee members as well as professors and seminarians. With each issue focusing on a different theme, Liturgy is prepared by a broad range of pastors, leaders, scholars, and writers who worship in faith.

Recent themes include

  • Worship with Justice (Volume 17, Issue 1)
  • Assembly Song (Volume 17, Issue 2)
  • From Ashes to Fire (Volume 17, Issue 3)
  • Heritage Meets Hope (Volume 17, Issue 4)
  • No Peace in Bethlehem (Volume 18, Issue 1)
  • The Future of Denominational Liturgical Resources (Volume 18, Number 4)
  • Children in Worship (Volume 19, Number 1)
  • Fortieth Anniversary of the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy (Volume 19, Number 2)
  • The Liturgy’s Texts (Volume 19, Number 3)
  • Worship Wars (Volume 19, Number 4)
  • Public Worship and Civic Religion (Volume 20, Number 1)

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Peer Review Policy:

All essays in this journal have been solicited for this publication and reviewed by the editors.

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Journal metrics

Usage

  • 23K annual downloads/views

Citation metrics

  • 0.1 (2023) Impact Factor
  • 0.1 (2023) 5 year IF
  • 0.3 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
  • 0.000 (2023) SNIP
  • 0.124 (2023) SJR

Speed/acceptance

  • 43 days avg. from acceptance to online publication

Editorial board

The Liturgical Conference

Editor-in-Chief:
Melinda A. Quivik
[email protected]

The Liturgical Conference, Board of Directors
President, David Farina Turnbloom – University of Portland, Portland, OR
Vice-President, Andrew Wymer – Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary, Evanston, IL
Secretary, David Bjorlin – North Park Theological Seminary, Chicago, IL
Treasurer, Nicholas Zork – Andrews University, Berrien Springs, MI

E. Byron Anderson – Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, Evanston, IL
Michelle K. Baker-Wright – St. James' Episcopal Church, South Pasadena, CA
Hansol Goo – College of St. Benedict and St. John’s University, Collegeville, MN
Adam Perez – Belmont University, Nashville, TN
Audrey Seah – College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA
Lisa M. Weaver – The Riverside Church, New York, NY
Kahlia J. Williams – Candler School of Theology, Atlanta, GA
Debbie Wong – Duke University Divinity School, Durham, NC

Liturgy is a quarterly journal of pastoral liturgy of The Liturgical Conference, an independent voluntary, not-for-profit association concerned with the renewal of life and worship in the Christian churches.

Abstracting and indexing

Abstracted and/or Indexed: Catholic Periodical Literature Index; EBSCOhost Online Research Databases; OCLC; Religious and Theological Abstracts; and SwetsWise All Titles.

Open access

Liturgy is a hybrid open access journal that is part of our Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research.

Why choose open access?

  1. Increase the discoverability and readership of your article
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  3. Freely share your work with anyone, anywhere
  4. Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
  5. Rigorous peer review for every open access article

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