confirmation

By Calvin Lane What will it add? she asked me. I was enjoying a brunch with a delightful retired couple who had relocated to our...

By Sam Keyes Of all the sacraments, confirmation is the most widely misunderstood. Among Protestants, it often functions, at worst, as a mere coming-of-age ritual....

Lots of Episcopalians, lay and ordained, seem to think they know what confirmation is, but our canons and liturgical forms are, at best, ambiguous, and there’s nothing approaching broad agreement about how to interpret them.

In studying confirmation, though, I grew more and more certain of one truth: I had already received every gift and commissioning I needed for ministry in baptism.

So many Episcopal teenagers leave church as soon as they are confirmed that the phenomenon has a name: the graduation effect.

“If you invite the Holy Spirit into your midst — be prepared for the unexpected!”

This past Sunday we welcomed our bishop for his annual visitation and for confirmations, which is always a joyous day for our youth confirmands,...

Deputies’ closing topics: alternative liturgies, confirmation, assessments, Israel, PB’s job security.

Let's not be quick to discard the best things we have to offer.

It's worth reading a recent statement to see what our ACNA brethren are thinking regarding the hotly debated question of Confirmation. What is most interesting is that they are following precisely the revolutionary changes introduced in the 1979 BCP of the Episcopal Church.