Category: Episcopal/Anglican Liturgy
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Brief Book Review: Beyond Four Walls
Richard Geoffrey Leggett reviews Beyond Four Walls.
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Go in peace to love and serve the Lord (or just come to coffee…)
Rethinking the “eighth sacrament” of coffee hour.
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Dippy the Dinosaur in Norwich Cathedral
Sometimes people say that the Christian Faith is in trouble. Numbers of people attending church are down. Many ecclesial institutions have trouble staying open. A recent post has analyzed this decrease in religious practice that is common throughout the West. This isn’t an exclusively Catholic phenomenon but can be found across denomination lines. A number…
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Short Commentary: Lay-led house churches in the Church of England?
Christendom is collapsing.
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Common Prayer as Common Vision?
How does a conversation on prayer in common and the perspectives of different generations bring understanding to differences of perception and expectation? While strictly stereotyping an “older” generation (we’ll call them ‘baby-boomers’) and a “younger” generation (we’ll call them Gen Z and younger Millennials) is never wise – after all, there are considerable variables between…
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Discerning the essential in sacramental liturgy: ordinations in a time of pandemic
Even in a time of pandemic, the eucharistic is not an optional liturgical context for ordinations, but of the essence of the sacramental action of the Trinity and the Church because of the unity of church, eucharist and priesthood.
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Behold the Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world…
How do we celebrate the eucharist in a time of pandemic? A view from Anglican theology in North America
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Is God a “Tourist Attraction”?
I imagine that many readers are already familiar with the photographs of some of England’s ancient cathedrals that have recently been retrofitted with more “relevant” contemporary attractions. Our forebearers went to these Cathedrals to visit the relics displayed there and they formed an important part of the social fabric of the day, but today the…
