The Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music has posted three video conversations with Anglican liturgists in Brazil and Japan.
The videos, part of a series on how churches have revised the Book of Common Prayer, feature Rev. Sam Dessórdi Leite of the Igreja Episcopal Anglicana do Brasil, the Rt. Rev. David Stancliffe, Bishop of Salisbury in the Church of England, and the Rev. Shintaro David Ichihara of the Diocese of Tokyo, Nippon Sei Ko Kai.
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, the members of the SCLM are interviewing Anglican partners who have recently revised their prayer books.
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.
