A scholar in liturgy who is also a professor of renaissance English and a convert from Anglicanism to Orthodoxy says that use of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer material by English-speaking Antiochian Orthodox communities is harmful in many ways — in essence, it imports heresy into the liturgy. Much of his critique is relevant to the Ordinariate use of Prayer Book language and texts.
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Expecting a blue Christmas?
I wonder whether there are Catholic parishes that offer a blue Christmas worship service too? And what liturgical forms are proving helpful here?
Read moreClothed in the spirit – Clergy stoles taking expressive forms
Mary Jacobs of the United Methodist Reporter reports on the “varied, colorful, elaborate and often symbolically or personally significant” stoles being worn by United Methodist clergy these days.
Read moreAnd Now For Something Completely Different (or: Of Studies, Liturgical Part VII)
Emergent — emerging — emergence worship fascinates me, though I’m never quite sure how much it represents an act of retrieval, how much a creative appropriation and inculturation of liturgy, and how much the idiosyncratic whims of communities. . . .
Read moreMasculine God? Masculine Christianity?
Has God given us Christianity with a “masculine” feel? Or has Christianity created a God with a masculine feel?
Read moreHating religion and loving Jesus
The video “Why I hate religion but love Jesus” has gone viral.
Read moreNew Book on Worship Music Practices in U.S. Congregations
The Sounds of our Offerings: Achieving Excellence in Church Music has just been published by the Alban Institute in cooperation with the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship. The work details a research project involving nine congregations: three Catholic, three Episcopal, and three Presbyterian, located in the Northwest, Southwest, Midwest, and Northeast of the United States.
Read moreBook Review: Worship for Vital Congregations
Christian churches have a vast penumbra of marginal members who remain unaware—or unconvinced—that Sunday worship is a fruitful use of their time. How can it be presented so that it appears in its proper aspect, as a genuine priority in life?
Read more“And with your spirit”: the ecumenical future?
Looking at the new Ordinal of the Anglican Church in North America, imagine my surprise. . .
Read moreHymns for a lifetime
At Knollwood Baptist Church, the memorization of 60 hymns equips the young with a repertoire of theological language to express themselves with through high and low moments of their life.
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