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Ruth
Meyers, priest, teacher, scholar, and
Academic Dean, has taught liturgy at Seabury since 1995. She earned her
Master of Divinity degree from Seabury and then her M.A. in theology (1989)
and Ph.D. in liturgical history (1992) from the University of Notre Dame.
Dr. Meyers has served as a presenter and keynote speaker at numerous national, diocesan and parish events. She served as Diocesan Liturgist in the Diocese of Western Michigan from 1991 to 1998. She also taught "Essentials of Good Worship" for the Leadership Program for Musicians from 1996 to 1997, and was a member of the summer school faculty (M.A. program, liturgical studies) in the Department of Theology at the University of Notre Dame during the summers of 1994, 1996, 1996, 1998.
Currently Past President of the North American Academy of Liturgy, the major scholarly association for liturgical studies in North America, Dr. Meyers is also a member of Societas Liturgica (an international ecumenical organization of liturgical scholars) and the Council of Associated Parishes for Liturgy and Mission. Since 1999 she has been a member of the Anglican/ Roman Catholic Consultation in the United States. Dr. Meyers has been an active participant in the meetings of the International Anglican Liturgical Consultation and served on its Steering Committee from 1991 to 1995. Throughout the 1990s she served on the Expansive Language Committee of the Episcopal Church Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music.
Dr. Meyers is the general editor of the Liturgical Studies series of the Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music, the editor of Open (Journal of Associated Parishes for Liturgy and Mission) and an assistant editor of Studia Liturgica. She is the author of The Story of Our Changing Worship and Continuing the Reformation: Re-visioning Baptism in the Episcopal Church and over twenty articles. Her most recent book is Gleanings: Essays on Expansive Language with Prayers for Various Occasions (2001), which she edited with Phoebe Pettingell.
In 1998, Dr. Meyers received a grant from the Episcopal Evangelical Education Society for a project to study the inculturation of the liturgy in three congregations of the Episcopal Church. Three years later she was awarded an Association of Theological Schools Lilly Theological Research Grant to continue this research.