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Liturgies That Shape Us in the Places We Share
Notice what ordinary gatherings teach through repeated practices.
The Formative Gift of Gathering explores the repeated ways people speak, attend, trust, and belong in classrooms, homes, workplaces, churches, and digital spaces.
Read the full descriptionWhat are your ordinary gatherings teaching before anyone explains their purpose?
The Formative Gift of Gathering explores the repeated ways people speak, attend, trust, and belong in classrooms, homes, workplaces, churches, and digital spaces. It invites readers to recognize the formative influence of familiar rhythms and environments.
The book uses the language of liturgy to examine shared life: not only formal worship, but the patterns through which communities practice what they value. Relationships, habits, and places become opportunities to ask what is being learned and what might need more deliberate care.
For Christian educators, leaders, and readers who shape the life of a group, these pages offer a more attentive starting point. Rather than treating gathering as a neutral container for content, the book asks how ordinary practices can express the convictions a community hopes to live.
Classrooms, tables, workplaces, churches, and digital spaces
Repeated rhythms and hidden liturgies
Presence, mentorship, and nervous-system safety
Trust, belonging, and the design of shared spaces
Christian educators, leaders, and people shaping shared life.
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Dr. R. C. Titus is an author, researcher, and educator whose work explores whole-person formation, educational psychology, emotional intelligence, and the ways learning shapes who people are becoming. As Director of the SNU Lab School and Associate Professor of Educational Psychology at Southern Nazarene University, he brings together research, educational practice, and Christian formation to help educators and leaders cultivate environments where people can grow in wisdom, character, belonging, and purpose.
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