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Book of Common Prayer (1979)

ACNA Marks 10th Anniversary With New Prayer Book

In July 2018, while General Convention was in Austin debating a 12-year, $8 million proposal to revise the 1979 Book of Common Prayer, a different prayer book project was moving toward fruition.

Changing Trains on Liturgical Revision

Liturgical revision has passed at General Convention, but not in the anticipated form.

Bishops Kill Comprehensive BCP Revision

Proposed nine-year revision project gains no traction as bishops seek faster delivery of new liturgies.

Linguistic Purity Is an Impossible Liturgical Criterion

The pursuit of an immaculate vocabulary will be interminable.

Many Bishops Reticent on Revision

David Rice: “I have no idea where we’re going to be nine or 12 years’ time, but … it’s not going to be contained in a book.”

A Bigger Conversation about Liturgy

“It is worrisome that despite the soaring temperatures of Austin, the current Prayer Book conversations take place in an ecumenical winter.”

Bp. Griswold on the Prayer Book

Integration of the 1979 Book of Common Prayer’s ethos is incomplete, says former Presiding Bishop Frank Griswold.

A good map for the journey

We have a catechetical crisis in the Episcopal Church. It must surely color any conversation about prayer book revision.

‘Let the liturgy be’

We spend inordinate time trying to make our liturgy “work”: too much time on prayer book revision and supplementation, too much time on trying to make the weekly service relevant and meaningful.

Prayer books, ancient and modern

The main inspiration for the 1979 prayer book was more ancient than modern.

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