Knowledge and Love
By John Bauerschmidt
Our prayer book liturgies often contain theological and devotional treasures, overlooked even though lying in plain sight. It is the nature of liturgy to become customary and familiar: w... Read More...
Prayer in Time of Plague
By Drew Nathaniel Keane
The degree of physical adversity and suffering that was commonplace for our ancestors defies our imagination. We live on the other side of advances in technology and medicine that wou... Read More...
On Good Funerals
What are some “best practices” for the ritual observance of a Christian's death that we should strive not to surrender to the secular culture?
A Scriptural Liturgy
By John Bauerschmidt
In his book, The Love of Learning and the Desire for God, Jean Leclercq offers this reflection on liturgical worship:
All the delicacy of liturgical poetry comes from the free and harmo... Read More...
A Time of Trial: What Then Shall We Do?
By Philip Turner
This is the third and final essay in a series on the challenges facing the churches in the midst of the pandemic and the wake of the 2020 Presidential Election. In the first I suggested that... Read More...
The Mirror of the Psalms
By Bryan Owen
Every once in a while, we hear words from a psalm in our corporate worship that trouble or shock us. It’s pretty rare that this happens in the eucharistic lectionary appointed for Sundays. But since the Daily Office lectionary gets around to t... Read More...
Walking Through Morning Prayer
By Jean McCurdy Meade
We often think of the Christian life as a journey, a Pilgrim’s Progress to the Celestial City, in the words of John Bunyan, or the race that we run to win the crown we are promised as S... Read More...
Our Great Inheritance
By Paul (H. Matthew Lee)
The Book of Common Prayer is the great masterpiece of the English Church, and although the Anglican Communion today is now present beyond the historical conquest of the British Empir... Read More...