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Mixed Support for Communion Across Difference in Deputies

While approving conscience protections for the ordination and deployment processes, progressives used a series of parliamentary moves to defeat resolutions to renew the church's Task Force on Communion Across Difference and alter disciplinary canons on doctrine.

The Weight of the BCP at General Convention

This year’s General Convention will consider a second reading of a revision to Article X of the Constitution. It would be very unwise for General Convention to pass this revision.

With the Grain of the Prayer Book

In early February 1685, King Charles II fell ill and clergy across the country, perhaps somewhat strangely, began to pray the prayer book service...

What Can 1928 Teach Us?

Edited and introduced by Richard Mammana Jr. The following essay by Harry Boone Porter Jr. (1923-99) was first published in The Anglican, April 1999, pp....

Thinking Outside the Box: A Pre-Christendom Intervention in the Communion Without Baptism Debate

By Daniel Martins According to the materials that have been made available to bishops and deputies who will be in Baltimore this summer for the...

Liturgical Revision and a New Conception of God

Have Christians every believed God is an old man in the sky? And do we need to revise our liturgy because of this?

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.

The Liturgical Movement and the History of Prayer Book Revision

The 1979 Book of Common Prayer was not just years in the making, but centuries.

The Memorial, the BCP, and the Name of the Trinity

The proclamation of Christ through our liturgical rites should be the raison d’être of BCP revision.

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