The Rev. Dr. Ruth Meyers

Ruth (she/her) is Senior Research Scholar at Church Divinity School of the Pacific, where she served as Hodges-Haynes Professor of Liturgics from 2009-2024, and as Dean of Academic Affairs from 2012-2023. Prior to her appointment to the CDSP faculty, she taught liturgics at Seabury-Western Theological Seminary in Evanston, Illinois. A long-time deputy to the General Convention of the Episcopal Church, she has served as chair of the Episcopal Church’s Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music (2009-2015) and as a member of several other church-wide task forces. She is an associate member of the Council of Associated Parishes for Liturgy and Mission and a past president of North American Academy of Liturgy, and she has served on the Steering Committee of the International Anglican Liturgical Consultation, in which she continues to be an active participant. From 1999 through 2007 she was a member of the Anglican/Roman Catholic Consultation in the United States. Her publications include Continuing the Reformation: Re-Visioning Baptism in the Episcopal Church (Church Publishing, 1997); Worship-Shaped Life: Liturgical Formation and the People of God, co-edited with Paul Gibson (Canterbury Studies in Anglicanism, 2010); Missional Worship, Worshipful Mission (Eerdman’s, 2014); Praying Shapes Believing, a revised edition of Leonel Mitchell’s 1985 theological study of the 1979 Book of Common Prayer (Church Publishing, Inc., 2016); The Oxford Handbook of the Book of Common Prayer (Oxford University Press, 2025), co-edited with Paul F. Bradshaw and Luiz Carlos Teixeira Coelho; and numerous articles. Her current research focuses on worship in racially diverse congregations in the Episcopal Church. She and her husband, the Rev. Dr. Daniel Prechtel, have been at All Souls since 2009.