Since the release of the ANCA 2019 Book of Common Prayer has open the floodgates for consideration of all kinds of controversial topics, it's time to consider one more: that of ad orientem, i.e., facing the altar during the Sacred Mysteries rather than the people. That's been the subject of a blog-to-blog volley between one …
Jimmy Buffett and the Miserable Offenders of the Book of Common Prayer
It's time to look at another bone that's been picked with the ANCA's 2019 Book of Common Prayer: the omission of the phrase "miserable offenders" to the General Confession for Morning and Evening Prayer. Let's start with the 2019 text: And now from the 1928 BCP: In addition to the modernization of the language, the …
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The “I” and the “We” of the Creed
The issuance of the ACNA 2019 Book of Common Prayer has brought back to the forefront many issues that have been "out there" for a long time. One of them is right up front in both the Apostles' and Nicene Creed: whether either or both should start with "I believe" or "We believe." This post …
Banning is Not Too Strong of a Word to Use for Quincy’s Action re the 2019 Book of Common Prayer
In my post on the ACNA's 2019 Book of Common Prayer, I made mention that the Diocese of Quincy had banned its use (as had Anglican Ink.)Â There has been some push back to that, from VirtueOnline and Robin Jordan, that this is not what they have done. Although I'll betray my Thomistic intellectual background …
Some Thoughts on the 2019 Book of Common Prayer
If I had to pick an event that transformed this site's focus and viewership more than any other, it was my posting of the 1928 Book of Common Prayer in December 2003. The 1662 Book was posted the following year. Coming as they did at the start of the explosion (and partly in response to …
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Gilbert and Sullivan on the English Elites and the Iwerene Mess
In this post on the subject on Anglican.ink, an interesting observation about some of the participants: Here one has to raise a very serious question viz a viz GAFCON. Why was Andy Lines (also a product of this culture and apparently abused by his mentor, Fletcher) selected and by whom to be chairman of GAFCON …
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Pete Buttigieg, Episcopal Snob
The first round of Democratic Presidential debates is, mercifully, over. Winners and losers will sort themselves out in due season, but in the meanwhile let's consider one whom the media fawned over: Pete Buttigieg, South Bend's mayor. He's made quite a career doing something that none of his rivals have done to the extent that …
Bethesda-by-the-Sea Episcopal Church: The Unauthorised Tour
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Renunciation is Central to Christianity, But You’d Never Know It
I recently had an interesting back and forth with a guy I went to prep school with on "Renouncing Privilege."Â Evidently he and I have a different take on what that means, as evidenced by his comment: Many of the students were, and probably still are wealthy, still privileged. I would not try to make …
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The Thing About Myself that @rachelheldevans Brought to Mind
I was saddened by the last voyage of Rachel Held Evans. It is never good for such a thing to happen, especially at this time in life. She was not so far from us and my wife and I know several of her fellow parishioners at St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Cleveland. It's best to …
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