To hush as the shadows lengthen Calvin Lane October 14, 2020 Commentary, Liturgy, The Episcopal Church By Calvin Lane I am not a good sleeper, a challenge since childhood. I used to watch my younger brother fall blissfully asleep as soon as his head hit the pillow. To this day, falling asleep is terribly hard... Read More...
Walking Through Morning Prayer Jean Meade October 6, 2020 Commentary, Liturgy, The Episcopal Church By Jean McCurdy Meade We often think of the Christian life as a journey, a Pilgrim’s Progress to the Celestial City, in the words of John Bunyan, or the race that we run to win the crown we are promised as S... Read More...
Jeremy Taylor’s Eucharistic Rite Revisited, Part 3 Nathan Jennings October 5, 2020 Commentary, Liturgy, Ressourcement, The Episcopal Church A Eucharistic Prayer By Nathan Jennings and Richelle Thompson In this series, we offer prayers edited from the corpus of Jeremy Taylor as examples of alternative liturgical texts deriving from local liturgi... Read More...
The Trials of Returning to Worship Guest Contributor October 2, 2020 Commentary, Liturgy, The Episcopal Church By Shirley O’Shea It had been more than five months since I had entered a sanctuary when I returned to church. Before the coronavirus pandemic necessitated the suspension of worship services, I would drive 2... Read More...
The Show Goes On Guest Contributor September 30, 2020 Commentary, Liturgy, Music, The Episcopal Church By Jonathan Jameson I’ve spent a large portion of the last eighteen years of my life traveling from town to town and playing songs to groups of people gathered in dimly-lit clubs. Somewhere along the way I b... Read More...
Jeremy Taylor’s Eucharistic Rite Revisited, Part 2 Nathan Jennings September 28, 2020 Commentary, Liturgy, Ressourcement, The Episcopal Church Material for the Holy Communion By Nathan Jennings and Richelle Thompson In this series, we offer prayers edited from the corpus of Jeremy Taylor as examples of alternative liturgical texts deriving from lo... Read More...
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...
