First, restore the hymnody of the Daily Office to the place that it deserves in our life of worship. Second, establish a commission uniting skilled linguists and liturgical poets to create the new definitive Modern English translations of these texts. Third, whatever works this commission produces—do not copyright them.
Converting spoken prayer to doing prayer may start with the need to accompany words by moving the body: bowing again and again while reading Torah, my kneeling and standing in church, a nun bending to light votive candles, an elderly couple raising their hands and arms during praise, or your walking through the dark, ferny woods as you recite the Jesus prayer.
You may already be doing prayer.
This book is vulnerable, open to all kinds of scholarly nitpicking, literary scorn, religious defensiveness, much of it justified. But does it work anyway? I think it does.
Richard Gladwell, the syndicated church music host and Episcopalian, has died in Rochester, NY at 88 of cancer.
Galen Strawson argues that it makes no difference whether he lives or dies: If, in any normal, non-depressed period of life, I ask myself whether
It destroys the ecclesiology of the Church of England, making it legitimate to “choose your own bishop”.
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Rev. Roger Joslin of All Saints’ Church in Bentonville, Arkansas, talks about his journey toward prayerful running.
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