The season of Lent is almost here, and it begins with Ash Wednesday. This post offers a brief look back at the classic Anglican liturgy for Ash Wednesday, with suggestions for how its theology can inform Ash Wednesday services today using other prayer books. The 1662 Book of Common Prayer makes Ash Wednesday distinctive in […]
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Pastors, consider providing some encouragement for the use of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer: International Edition within your parish: Offering a Sunday School class on the 1662 Book of Common Prayer, provides a great way to help parishioners to deepen their familiarity with Anglican history and the devotional resources at the heart of that
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It’s common practice for ministers to pray over their parish rolls, recalling individuals and families by name, lifting up cares and concerns, known and unknown to the Lord. Recently, however, as I was doing this, I found that I didn’t really know too much about my parishioners’ cares and concerns. In part because these things
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I caught a glimpse of gospel renewal the other day. My Latin pupils from the parish’s homeschooling group were packing up their books. The younger one was taking his time, so his older sister goaded and chided him, with phrases like, “C’mon, slow-poke.” Nothing out of the ordinary, until she and I were both standing
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My family and I lived in England for nearly four years. We lived in Kent, that part of England which stretches out into the English Channel and is closest to mainland Europe. The main motorway in that part of the country is the M-20 on which folks can travel from London to the coast and
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