Candidates for Office at the
2003 Meeting in Indianapolis, Indiana
For vice-president
For secretary
For delegate for membership
Daniel Benedict
Daniel Benedict serves as Worship Resources Director in the Center for Worship Resourcing for the General Board of Discipleship. He is an ordained elder/presbyter in the United Methodist Church. He has written numerous articles for the Sacramental Life, Worship Arts and other periodicals. With Craig Kennet Miller, he authored Contemporary Worship for the 21st Century: Worship or Evangelism? He is author of, Come to the Waters, a pastoral and liturgical invitation to recover the catechumenate in the church. He is a member of the Christian Initiation Seminar.
Gerald T. Chinchar, S.M.
Marianist Father Gerald Chinchar has been a member of NAAL since the late 1970's. Over the years he has been in the music, Liturgy of the Hours, Eucharistic Prayer, and now, Formation for Liturgy seminars. He is Convenor of the Formation seminar and past convenor of the Eucharistic Prayer seminar; he also has established and maintains the NAAL Website.
After studies at University of Dayton (BA), St. John's University—Collegeville (MA), University of Notre Dame (MA), University of Toronto—St. Michael's College (MDiv) and United Theological Seminary (DMin), he has spent 20 years at the University of Dayton as the Campus Minister for Catechetical programs, pastoral and sacramental minister, and priest-on-call as well as adjunct instructor in the Religious Studies Department for the Liturgy course. He has published in Sisters Today, Liturgical Ministry and with LTP. He has spoken at NPM, the Frank J Lewis Institute, and various parishes. He is a board member of Dayton's Miami Valley Catholic Church Musicians (MVCCM, an NPM Chapter) and on the Archdiocesan Worship Commission. He has been an active member of his Province's Liturgy Commission and active in working at and providing for liturgical resources in his local communities.
Eileen Crowley-Horak
Eileen Crowley-Horak works at the intersection of worship, arts and communication. A liturgist (University of Notre Dame, 1994) an pastoral musician ( more than 30 years), she has spent more than a decade contributing her skills and experience as a writer, media producer and communications consultant to the task of on-going liturgical catechesis and reform.
She has co-produced video programs to promote liturgical catechesis, eight for Catholic audiences (LTP) and two multi-part series for ELCA audiences ( Augsburg). She recently completed her Ph.D. at Union Theological Seminary in NYC (2002) where she focused on worship and the arts under the direction Janet Walton. Currently she is producing publications, articles, and worships designed to help churches to reflect on the fast-growing phenomenon of the use of electronic multimedia in worship.
A member since 1998, she participated may yeas in Ritual-Language-Action seminar, and last year in the Liturgy and Culture and Exploring Contemporary Worship seminars.
Doris Donnelly
A “cradle NAAL member” from Scotsdale days, my interest for years has been in the area of forgiveness and reconciliation. Like all of you, I have found these themes both healing and life-giving in rituals and pastoral practices of churches, synagogues and mosques, as well as restorative in family and other relationships. For the last two decades or so, the subject of reconciliation has elasticized to national and international dimensions and was solidified for me by a visit to South Africa during the Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings. A book of mine, Learning to Forgive, was originally published by Macmillan in the early '70s and subsequently went through 12 paperback reprintings at Abingdon. Other books, many articles, contributions to encyclopediae and dictionaries are part of my work – often with the intention of making theology accessible to intelligent laymen and laywomen. My work now is as director of The Cardinal Suenens Center named after Leon-Joseph Suenens (1904-1996) of Belgium who is regarded by many as the principal architect of the Second Vatican Council. His interests in ecumenism, the inter-religious dialogue and spirituality are mine as well. If you see my interests and administrative background as helpful to the common efforts, vision and influence of NAAL, I will be pleased to serve in any way you see appropriate.
Virgil Funk
I love the liturgy ( since I was a kid), and I still do. The liturgical prayer of the assembly, the act of worship of God, and all that entails, fascinate me. The professional analysis of worship and worshippers intrigues me – so NAAL is a wonderful and unique opportunity for all of us.
I come out of love of the liturgy, but I love the opportunity to share what I have learned with others who are interested in the study of the liturgy. NAAL must remain a special place for all of us to share “fundamental” research and reflection. I am the founder and past President/CEO of the National Association of Pastoral Musicians (NPM), and a founding member of NAAL, I have delighted to share ideas with the Ritual Action, and presently, with the Hermaneutics Study Group.
Victor Gebauer
Victor Gebauer, a pastor of the Lutheran Church, recently retired as executive director of Lutheran Summer Music. After studies at Concordia Seminary (St. Louis), the University of Minnesota (Ph.D. 1976), the University of Chicago Divinity School, and the Free University (Berlin), he served for three decades as Dean of Chapel, Chair of the Division of Fine Arts, and Professor of Music and Religion at Concordia University, Saint Paul. He has edited both “Grace Notes” and Response. His writings and reviews concerning church music or worship have appeared in Church Music, The Hymn, Currents in Theology and Mission, Pastoral Music, Dialog, Cross Accent, and Response. Gebauer has contributed to Key Words in Church Music and Worship Music: A Concise Dictionary and authored an altar guild manual. Current writings concern ritual studies and worship, the historiography of American church music, and entries for The New Westminster Dictionary of Church History (in progress).
Richard D. McCall
The Rev. Richard D. McCall, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Liturgy and Church Music at the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. An Episcopal priest for twenty-three years, he also serves currently as interim Priest at St. John’s, Bowdoin Street, in Boston. He has been a member of NAAL: since graduate school days at the Graduate Theological Union and is a member of Societies Liturgica.
Before joining the faculty at EDS he was Dean of the Chapel and Lecturer in Liturgical at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific. He is currently a member of the Liturgical Theology Seminar. “NAAL has been central;.” He says, “ to my own development as a scholar and a teacher. I would be very grateful for the opportunity to give something back tin service to the people who continue to inspire and challenge both each other and the wider church.
Richard Rutherford, C.S.C.
Holy Cross Father Richard Rutherford is a professor of theology and pastoral
liturgy at the University of Portland. After completing undergraduate
studies at the University of Notre Dame, he received his licentiate in
sacred theology from the Gregorian University in Rome and doctoral degree
in theology and liturgical studies at the Catholic University of Nijmegen,
Netherlands. He has taught at the University of Notre Dame and as visiting
summer professor at St. John’s University in Collegeville. He is
author of the book The Death of a Christian: the Order of Christian
Funerals (Liturgical Press, 1990), a comprehensive liturgical study
of traditional and contemporary Catholic funeral rites, and several monographs,
among them Honoring the Dead: Catholics and Cremation (revised
edition 2001). His articles have appeared in Worship, Modern
Liturgy, Liturgical Ministry, and Pastoral Music.
Throughout the 1990’s Fr. Rutherford devoted his research energies
to the study of early Christian baptismal liturgy and architecture and serving
as consultant in understanding the theological background for the renovation
of churches and baptisteries. Currently he is preparing an Internet site and
catalog of Christian Baptisteries and Baptismal Liturgy in Late Antique Asia
Minor.
Victoria Tufano
Victoria M. Tufano is senior editor at Liturgy Training Publications in Chicago ( her hometown), where she has been on staff since 1990. She is editor of Catechumenate: A Journal of Christian Initiation and various other resources for Christian initiation and liturgy. From 1981 to 1990 she was director of the liturgy office for the Catholic diocese of Des Moines, Iowa. During that time she was an active member of the Federation of Diocesan liturgical Commissions and served on the board of directors for that organization from 1988 to 1990. Vicky has served as a team member for institutes of the North American Forum on the Catechumenate since 1987 and as a member of the advisory council of the Notre Dame Center for Pastoral Liturgy since 1997. She has published articles in several pastoral journals, including Assembly, Pastoral Music, AIM, Markings, Liturgy 90, Catechumenate and Homily Service and wrote Guide for Ministers of Communion (LTP) and has been a speaker at many diocesan and national conferences. She was a lecturer a the Institute for Pastoral Studies, Loyola University of Chicago. A member of NAAL and the Christian initiation seminar since 1991, she is also a founding member of the Catholic Academy of Liturgy. Vicky sings alto in her parish choir and coordinates the parish’s Triduum celebrations, She holds a master’s degree in liturgical studies and a master of divinity degree, both from the University of Notre Dame.