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#GC79 Roundup for July 12

July 12, 2018 No Comments

With General Convention’s legislative work set to end at 6:30 CST on July 13, the rush to work through more than 500 resolutions continued on Thursday.

Although Episcopalians have been trickling into Austin for the last several days and legislative committee sessions have begun, today, July 5, marked the official start of the 79th General Convention (#GC79). Here is your roundup of today’s top stories.

What’s Old is New Again (continued)

August 11, 2017 4 Comments

What I’ve found is a lot of kids who grew up in charismatic and evangelical churches were finding more relevance to their faith with things that were rooted and grounded in tradition, from Anglican to anything that had a liturgical, historical grounding to it.

From All Points #8: Let’s look at the prayer book

May 6, 2017 No Comments

In this episode, Jon, Jennifer, Amy, and Charles (sort of) crack open the BCP to see what works, what doesn’t and what we might want in a revised prayer book

Encountering the Almighty God: 20 Minutes with David Hurd

April 17, 2016 1 Comment

… the bottom line of my hope would be to leave them with an understanding that music is integral to worship. It’s not just something that’s drizzled over the top ornamentally…

Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music adds fish to Eucharist for trial use

April 1, 2016 77 Comments

The Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music has officially released a supplement to the Eucharistic rite, approved for trial use beginning on Easter Sunday, 2017. The supplement allows for the addition of fish to the usual Eucharistic elements of bread and wine.

Communion means Communion

February 21, 2016 7 Comments

“A Communion of churches, at the very least surely, are churches that can celebrate communion together, churches where they accept the validity of each others ordinations, churches where someone ordained in one church can preside in the other.
What is called “The Anglican Communion” is not such a communion.” -Bosco Peters

What are the limits of Primatial power?

January 17, 2016 37 Comments

Or are the Primates here taking it upon themselves to speak for the whole Anglican Communion – that by “us” here they mean “Anglicanism”? If so, when and where, exactly, do they think they have received this mandate? Is a convenient crypto-papal ecclesiology at work here?

Popular New Zealand blog, “Liturgy,” back online after break

July 22, 2015 1 Comment

New Zealand based blogger on all things liturgical, Bosco Peters has returned from sabbatical, energized to take up his cause of strengthening spirituality through better worship.

Dio Blackburn, Church of England, proposes liturgy for transgender folk

May 30, 2015 3 Comments

A young man had asked for re-baptism with his male name, surmising that God might not recognize him, as he was originally baptized as a girl. He wished to be reintroduced to God in his new identity.

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