Adapted from the weblog of the Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music.
Resolution A169 of the 2015 General Convention directed the SCLM “to prepare a plan for the comprehensive revision of the current Book of Common Prayer and present that plan to the 79th General Convention.” To gather information and opinions to shape its conversations, SCLM members are interviewing Anglican partners who have recently revised their prayer books.
The Rev. Devon Anderson, chairwoman of the SCLM and rector of Trinity Church in Excelsior, Minnesota, interviewed the Rev. Keith Griffiths, a member of the Provincial Liturgical Commission in the Anglican Church of Southern Africa.
In a second video, SCLM member Drew Keane leads a conversation with the Rt. Rev. Harold Miller, Bishop of Down and Dromore in Northern Ireland and chairman of the Church of Ireland’s Liturgical Advisory Committee during the development of its Book of Common Prayer (2004).
Matthew Townsend is a Halifax-based freelance journalist and volunteer advocate for survivors of sexual misconduct in Anglican settings. He served as editor of the Anglican Journal from 2019 to 2021 and communications missioner for the Anglican Diocese of Quebec from 2019 to 2022. He and his wife recently entered catechism class in the Orthodox Church in America.
