prayer book revision

The pressures of time led to a number of widely supported compromises: new liturgical canons that secured protections for conservatives alongside prayer book revisions desired by progressives, and a concession to the bishops’ insistence that the State of Israel is not an “apartheid” regime.

Remembering the 1973 General Convention in Louisville

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.

Resolutions propose additions to the BCP without formally printing a new bound version.

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....

Prayer Book Revision and General Convention, Part 4 By Matthew S. C. Olver This is the final essay in my four-part series on the place of...

Prayer Book Revision and General Convention, Part Three By Matthew S. C. Olver General Convention Resolution 2018-A068 directed the Task Force on Liturgical and Prayer Book...

Prayer Book Revision and General Convention, Part 2 By Matthew S. C. Olver This is the second essay in my series on Resolution 2022-A059, the first...

Prayer Book Revision and General Convention, Part 1: By Matthew S. C. Olver In July of 2022, the 80th General Convention passed Resolution 2022-A059, the first...

Debate over Resolution A059 (Amend Article X of the Constitution of The Episcopal Church) has brought attention to a fundamental question for Episcopalians, namely,...