Translating the Trinity
Much of our prayer is already an exercise in translation. We seem to forget in our liturgical debates that even the Scriptures and the Creeds were not revealed to us in English.
The Liturgical Movement’s Methods and Motivation
In the Liturgical Movement, the posture was ressourcement, an instinct to draw from old, significant wells long forgotten.
Between GAFCON and General Convention: Means and Ends of Catholic Truth
We must not fail to place the steps of a General Convention within the comprehensive, world-historical frame of the gospel.
The Memorial, the BCP, and the Name of the Trinity
The proclamation of Christ through our liturgical rites should be the raison d’être of BCP revision.
Between Scylla and Charybdis?
Many of us wish for clear sailing on prayer book revision, but we run a real danger of getting caught by a whirlpool on one side and rocky shoals on the other.
What is to become of the Confession?
It’s one thing to say, “I have done something selfish or mean, or prideful.” It is another to say, “I am selfish, I am proud, I am greedy, I am mean, I am jealous, I am prejudiced, I am power-hungry.”
Leonel Mitchell, reshaped
Liturgical scholar Leonel Mitchell played a central role in preparing the 1979 Book of Common Prayer.
Rediscover the gospel
For the sake of mission, we need to rediscover the gospel that the BCP empowers us to pray.