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Prayer Book revision: Service of Light

July 24, 2016

Thoughts on the ritual and musical provisions for this attractive ceremony

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In Liturgy Tags Rite, Daily Office, Chant

What is the Book of Common Prayer?

July 13, 2016

The title page tells us what it is and has been, and prompts us to ask what it should and will be

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In Liturgy Tags Liturgical books, Anglicanism

‘Independence’ Day

July 4, 2016

Church, State, land, people

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In Society Tags World

Juneteenth

June 19, 2016

Equality, unity, true identity, belonging, and healing is already being fulfilled in Christ

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In Society Tags World

‘Culturally relevant’ liturgy

May 24, 2016

Tradition, not culture at large, is concentrated and rehearsed in the liturgy

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In Church, Liturgy Tags Church

Hymns of Christopher Wordsworth

April 18, 2016

A doxological, doctrinal, ecclesial, and liturgical companion to the Prayer Book

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In Liturgy Tags Hymns

Tenebrae

March 23, 2016

Matins and Lauds of the Triduum

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In Liturgy, Music Tags Daily Office, Holy Week, Rite

Crux fidelis

March 21, 2016

Considering Fortunatus’s great hymn on the Cross

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In Liturgy Tags Holy Week, Hymns, Translation

Old 113th and simple chant

March 7, 2016

A venerable Reformation tune points the way to more authentically liturgical music

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In Liturgy, Music Tags Chant, Hymns

My lovely one

February 29, 2016

The poetry of Edward Taylor, and Finzi’s setting of same

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In Music Tags Eucharist, Hymns, Poems

Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern

January 18, 2016

The Hymnal version is far from the original – perhaps to its, and our, benefit

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In Liturgy Tags Hymns, Translation, Eucharist

On fixing the date of Easter

January 16, 2016

A proposed set and shared date for Easter raises some interesting questions

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In Liturgy Tags Agricultural festivals, Easter, Kalendar

A new Nativity

December 21, 2015

Seeing the Incarnation here and now

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In Society Tags Incarnation, World

Let God arise

November 6, 2015

Interpreting an imprecatory Psalm

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In Liturgy, Music Tags Ascension, Choral literature, Psalms, Scripture

Saints and saints

November 3, 2015

Conflating All Saints and All Souls robs us of the obligations and opportunities of each

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In Liturgy Tags Departed, Heaven, Martyrs, Saints

O quanta qualia

November 1, 2015

Considering Abelard’s fine hymn on All Saints’ Day

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In Liturgy, Music Tags Choral literature, Hymns, Translation, Heaven, Saints

The Peace of the Lord

October 7, 2015

No time for casual chatter, the Peace is a dominical, apostolical, sacramental thing

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In Liturgy, Music Tags Choral literature, Repentance, Rite

Denali

September 2, 2015

What’s in a name?

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In Society Tags World

A hacktivist project proposal

August 28, 2015

Getting real with language

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In Society Tags World

Magnificat and martyrdom

August 14, 2015

Commemorating and learning from a modern witness to the faith

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In Liturgy Tags Martyrs, Daily Office
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