Ashes to Go? Context and Rationale
Ashes to Go can be a useful evangelistic tool, assuming that the context of the gospel in the prayer book liturgy can be legitimately maintained.
New Rites: Expansive, Inclusive, or Stifling?
An assessment of the "expansive" liturgies passed at the 79th General Convention.
Licit Liturgical Revision for the Future
A path to liturgical revision has been struck, but revision to the BCP is not occurring.
Did General Convention Authorize Prayer Book Revision?
After Convention, argument continues on what resolution A068 has done.
Leonel Mitchell, reshaped
Liturgical scholar Leonel Mitchell played a central role in preparing the 1979 Book of Common Prayer.
No end to sacrifice: Mitchell and Meyers, Praying Shapes Believing
Dix led us astray on offering. Because of this, Mitchell and Meyers have both extended energy on a largely empty debate.
No end to sacrifice: Anglicans on ‘offering’
Yesterday, I outlined some thoughts regarding offertory and sacrifice, especially in relation to Dom Gregory Dix’s theory about the fourfold shape of the Eucharist. In this second post, I return to the same top... Read More...
No end to sacrifice: The legacy of Gregory Dix
Gregory Dix's position on the Eucharist, offering, and sacrifice has loomed large over all later discussion of the topic, in the academy and the Church.