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Joseph Herl is assistant professor of music at Concordia University in Seward, Nebraska. His essays have appeared in various journals and anthologies, and his choral and organ music is published by Oxford University Press and CPH. His latest book, Worship Wars in Early Lutheranism: Choir, Congregation, and Three Centuries of Conflict, was published by Oxford in 2004.
See Are Bach's Cantatas the Praise and Worship Music of the Eighteenth Century?

Michael Kesar received his B.A. in Secondary Music Education from Concordia College, Ann Arbor, Michigan. He holds a Master of Music degree in Choral Conducting from The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He taught music and theology in Lutheran high schools for 11 years. He in currently the Director of Music Ministries at St Mark Lutheran Church in Omaha, Nebraska.
See Prospects of Historic Liturgy in a Post Modern Culture

Judith M. Kubicki is a Felician Sister from the Buffalo, New York Province. She is assistant professor of theology at Fordham University, Bronx, New York. She received her Ph.D. from the School of Religious Studies at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. where she specialized in liturgical theology. Sr. Kubicki has published articles and reviews in several journals including Worship, New Theology Review, The Living Light, Pastoral Music, GIA Quarterly, and Aim. Peeters Publishers and Booksellers of Leuven, Belgium published her book entitled Liturgical Music as Ritual Symbol: A Case Study of Jacques Berthier's Taizé Music. Dr. Kubicki is a member of the board of directors of the National Association of Pastoral Musicians (NPM) and is the music reviewer for the journal Worship.
See Perception, Presence, and Sacramentality in a Post-Modern Context

Paul Lehninger is chair of the Department of Religious Studies at Wisconsin Lutheran College in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he teaches courses in New Testament, Systematic Theology, and Worship. Recent projects include a comparison of the Lutheran and Roman Catholic doctrines of the sacraments, a study of the mystical theology of hymn writer Philip Nicolai, and applying principles of teaching theology through music to syllabi for doctrine classes.
See Playing the Discarded Image Card

Laurence C. Sibley, Jr. is a lecturer in practical theology at Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia. He also teaches and lectures on liturgy at Baltic Reformed Theological Seminary, Riga, Latvia; Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia; and Trinity Episcopal School for Ministry, Ambridge, Pennsylvania. He is the author of several study guides, including Worship: Discovering What Scripture Says (Shaw, 2001) and Spiritual Disciplines: The Tasks of a Joyful Life (Shaw, 2003).
See Baptizing the Nations: Mission, Culture, and Liturgy in the Gospel of Matthew

Mark A. Torgerson is assistant professor of Worship Arts at Judson College, Elgin, Illinois. He teaches a variety of worship courses at Judson College and several seminaries, including Northern Baptist Theological Seminary and Asbury Theological Seminary. Dr. Torgerson is an ordained minister in the Evangelical Covenant Church and holds an earned doctorate in liturgical studies from the University of Notre Dame. His writings have been published in journals such as Worship, Doxology, and the Covenant Quarterly. A special focus of research for Dr. Torgerson is the intersection between liturgy and the arts, particularly architecture and the visual arts. His doctoral dissertation examined a particular church architect of the twentieth century and he occasionally paints two-dimensional pieces of art for liturgical gatherings.
See A ‘Century of Progress'? Worship and Church Building Design in the Twentieth Century

Christopher Wells is a member of St. Paul 's (Episcopal) in Mishawaka, Indiana, and a doctoral candidate at the University of Notre Dame. His essay on Aquinas and trinitarian theology appeared in the 2002 volume of the Anglican Theological Review. Mr. Wells, whose research interests are the history of Christian doctrine and contemporary ecumenical theology, was recently named a Promising Scholar by the Episcopal Church Foundation.
See “The body of our humiliation” (Phil 3:21): Historical and Scriptural Notes on Liturgy as an ‘End' of the Church