Unity’s Fire
This past summer, I joined my 14-year-old son, Isaac, in a hot, dusty field outside Georgetown, Texas. He was competing at part of the U.S. Junior National Team in the World Space Modeling Championships. I had ... Read More...
Ritual Repels the Robots: One Human Response to AI
By Matthew S.C. Olver
I’ll admit, I was a bit late to the AI party, or at least to the awareness that AI might be throwing a party to which I’m not invited. A recent episode of The Ezra Klein Show was incred... Read More...
A Proposal for the 81st General Convention
Prayer Book Revision and General Convention, Part 4
By Matthew S. C. Olver
This is the final essay in my four-part series on the place of the Book of Common Prayer in the Episcopal Church, the establishment... Read More...
An Explanation and an Exploration of 2022-A059
Prayer Book Revision and General Convention, Part Three
By Matthew S. C. Olver
General Convention Resolution 2018-A068 directed the Task Force on Liturgical and Prayer Book Revision (the absurdly abbreviat... Read More...
A Summary of the Authorization of Liturgical Texts
Prayer Book Revision and General Convention, Part 2
By Matthew S. C. Olver
This is the second essay in my series on Resolution 2022-A059, the first reading of a complete revision to Article X of the Constit... Read More...
The Book of Common Prayer in TEC’s Constitution
Prayer Book Revision and General Convention, Part 1:
By Matthew S. C. Olver
In July of 2022, the 80th General Convention passed Resolution 2022-A059, the first reading of a complete revision to Article X of... Read More...
I Taught Canon Law. Then I Went to General Convention.
This is the first in a series of essays on the 80th General Convention and prayer book revision that Covenant will publish in the coming weeks.
By Matthew S. C. Olver
This article’s title kept swimming i... Read More...
Confessions of a Penitential Orderer
By Matthew S. C. Olver
I despise the Penitential Order. Scratch that. I actually have come to think that the so-called Penitential Order in the 1979 BCP is theologically and ritually preferable. I just hate ... Read More...