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Scottish Episcopal inclusive language liturgy

The Scottish Episcopal Church has approved an optional order of worship which eliminates masculine language for God in liturgical texts.

Adding Insult to Injury; or, “And also with….”

Just in case you thought Episcopalians hadn’t noticed….

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New rite for Episcopalians

Pray Tell allows itself some, but not too much, coverage of “culture war” issues.

What does the mouse… er, ah, uhm… the dog eat?

If “the mouse or dog does not touch Christ’s body in its proper species, but only as to its sacramental species,” what’s the big deal if a dog is given communion?

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Lifelong Nourishment by Baroness James

We live in an age imbued with a restless desire for change. It sometimes seems that nothing old, nothing well established, nothing which has evolved through centuries of experience and loving use escapes our urge to diminish, revise or abolish it.

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Mitregate

When Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori preached and presided at a Eucharist June 13 at Southwark Cathedral in London, she carried her mitre, or bishop’s hat, rather than wear it.

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What are you doing this Sunday?

“In the immortal words of gospel pop star Kirk Franklin, ‘We’re havin’ us a Holy Ghost party up in he-ah!’”

Canadian Texts Available Online

Alternative Liturgical materials from the Anglican Church of Canada now available on-line.

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Aye, mateys! All thin’s be recon’d, ye’re ship-shape

What would you do if your priest spoke pirate?

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“If it ain’t baroque. . .”

“Unless the Baroque disappears, or at least takes a backseat to dignified but contemporary arts, the future of the Extraordinary Form of the Latin Rite liturgy is one of derision — as the liturgy of “Roman museum religion.”

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