JOURNEY INTO HOLINESS: PRAYING WITH THE TRACTARIANS (Part 2) Guest Contributor September 23, 2020 Commentary, Liturgy, The Episcopal Church By John Orens The first part of this essay explored the embodied character of grace in Tractarian spirituality. Yet we must recognize that it is precisely in this embodiedness that we are called beyond indiv... Read More...
JOURNEY INTO HOLINESS: PRAYING WITH THE TRACTARIANS (Part 1) Guest Contributor September 22, 2020 Commentary, Liturgy, The Episcopal Church By John Orens The liturgical debt Episcopalians owe the Tractarian pioneers of the Anglo-Catholic revival is incalculable. Although they themselves were not much interested in ceremony, almost everything tha... Read More...
Jeremy Taylor’s Eucharistic Rite Revisited, Part 1 Nathan Jennings September 21, 2020 Commentary, Liturgy, Ressourcement, The Episcopal Church Material for the Service of the Word By Nathan Jennings and Richelle Thompson The phrase “experimental liturgy” often evoke a sense of leaving behind traditional texts, shapes and language use. At a time wh... Read More...
The 10th Commandment: As Sinful as Apple Pie John A. Thorpe September 18, 2020 Bible, Catechesis, Commentary, Ten Commandments, The Episcopal Church Part of a series on the Ten Commandments. By John Thorpe Covetousness! Again, who ever confesses that? Thousands are guilty of it, but few will own it even in private before the Lord. Charles Spurgeon, Se... Read More...
Socialism for Tractarians and Ritualists Zachary Guiliano September 17, 2020 Church of England, Commentary, Liturgy By Zachary Guiliano Recently, I found myself delighted and slightly disgruntled by the appearance of an essay by Tony Hunt, “To the Sources: A Study in Anglican Socialism.” The reasons for my delight may be ... Read More...
The Ninth Commandment, “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor” Stewart Clem September 16, 2020 Bible, Catechesis, Commentary, Ten Commandments, The Episcopal Church Part of a series on the Ten Commandments. By Stewart Clem The Bible does not condone lying. Or does it? On the one hand, when lying is considered in the abstract, the biblical authors are unequivoca... Read More...
Our Great Inheritance Guest Contributor September 15, 2020 Anglican Church of Canada, Commentary, Liturgy By Paul (H. Matthew Lee) The Book of Common Prayer is the great masterpiece of the English Church, and although the Anglican Communion today is now present beyond the historical conquest of the British Empir... Read More...
The Eighth Commandment: Theft for a Good Cause? Neil Dhingra September 14, 2020 Bible, Catechesis, Commentary, Roman Catholic Church, Ten Commandments Part of a series on the Ten Commandments. By Neil Dhingra In Alex Gibney’s The Inventor, a documentary about Elizabeth Holmes, the turtlenecked and deep-voiced founder and erstwhile CEO of Theranos, now i... Read More...
