“And the Church of England is Protestant too” – William Laud, then Bishop of St. David’s, later Archbishop of Canterbury. Before the mid-19th century…More Laud than Baxter: the Protestantism of 1662
Don’t Tell People to “Come to the Table” Unless They Really Do–Or Should
Today is the Sunday of Christ the King, or the Sunday Before Advent, depending on which liturgical calendar you're using. (So let's dispense with the term "the liturgical calendar" as if there is only one.) It's the last Sunday of the liturgical year, and as was the case with 2019-20 it's been a long one, …
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Anglican Tidbit: Church Divinity School of the Pacific: Liturgy is You
LP-RPRT-101 (1968?) This album occupies a curious place in the "Jesus Music" era in that, in a time when so many albums were self-produced or done on obscure (or not so obscure labels) that disappeared, this one is an official production of the denomination. It was commissioned by the Executive Council of the Episcopal Church …
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Word of God/Servants of the Word: Rise Up O Men of God
Word of God W/G 8019 (1980) One of the interesting aspects of life in Catholic Charismatic covenant communities was the residential sub-communities. The communities were not in general residentially communal; this mode of life was generally for single people. The sub-community of the Word of God here, the Servants of the Word, is described on …
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What the poppy really means
Why do modern architects hate humanity? The question echoes around one my favourite corners of the internet, Reactionary Architecture Twitter. Powered by a loathing of the modernist and post-modernist built environment, it’s weirdly popular, signalling an about-turn towards traditional aesthetics, which has even seen Britain’s reactionary-in-chief, Prince Charles, enjoying… 1,592 more wordsWhat the poppy really …
Anglican Tidbit: Rejoice! Music for the Worship of God in the Twentieth Century
Mace M(S) 10030 (1966) Seminary groups--or better, groups of seminarians--had a significant impact on the "Old Folk Mass" the Roman Catholics celebrated, both before and after the institution of the Novus Ordo Missae. The best known of these are the Dameans, but the St. Mary's seminarians made their contribution as well. This one comes from …
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Anglican Tidbit: Bulletin for the Twenty-Third Sunday After Trinity
Another Anglican Tidbit, in this case the bulletin from Bethesda-by-the-Sea Episcopal Church for the Twenty-Third Sunday after Trinity, 1968. Some interesting notes: The liturgy is 1928 BCP/1940 Hymnal, for those of you who are looking for help in using this for current liturgical practice.The two main services are Morning Prayer (they also had Evening Prayer …
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The Bourgeois Church of Spectators and the Crisis of Morale in the Priesthood
“What does the word bourgeois actually mean? … The word designates a spiritual state, a direction of the soul, a peculiar consciousness of being.” “The bourgeois, even when he is a ‘good Catholic’, believes only in this world, in the expedient and the useful; he is incapable of living by faith in another world and refuses to …
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Anglican Tidbit: Music of the Liturgy in English According to the Use of the Episcopal Church
Columbia ML-4528 (1952) This fascinating record is really two albums in one. The first, directed by Ray F. Brown, is a "Plainsong" rendition of the 1928 Book of Common Prayer Holy Communion and Evening Prayer. The "Plainsong" is what we would generally call Gregorian Chant (or in the style of Gregorian Chant.) It's well done …
Today’s Goat is Tomorrow’s Goat Too
In this case Jon Meacham: Samford University has uninvited Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Jon Meacham from inauguration ceremonies for the school's new president after student protest...However, in a letter Wednesday, Beck Taylor, who became university president in July, wrote that due to objections, including from "elements of Samford's Student Government Association," the university had decided to …
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