Richard MammanaThe American Revolution as a Liturgical EventLIKE ALL WARS FOUGHT BY RELIGIOUS PERSONS, the American Revolution sparked liturgical forms responsive to the needs of its belligerents…Jul 4Jul 4
Richard MammanaThe Joy Box of General ConventionTHE AMNESIA OF EPISCOPALIANS has a triennial half-life: we have forgotten half of what we knew, read, marked, learned, or inwardly digested…Jun 251Jun 251
Richard MammanaA letter to the organistYOU WERE BAPTIZED in the same German church in which I was baptized, and you were confirmed in the same English church in which I was…Jun 17Jun 17
Richard MammanaPhiladelphia Said No: The Anglo-Catholic Turf War of 1884CHURCH ARCHIVES COUGH UP moments of delight as though that is their only purpose. A fine example among many is the 1884–85 dispute between…Jun 9Jun 9
Richard MammanaThe Subarctic Trombones of Moravian LabradorTom Gordon, Called Upstairs: Moravian Inuit Music in Labrador (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2023), ISBN…Jun 5Jun 5
Richard MammanaWhen a church becomes a church againI READ WITH THANKFULNESS earlier this year about the possibility that the historic Peace Church in south central Pennsylvania may return to…Jun 3Jun 3
Richard MammanaAfterwit and the Book of Common PrayerSamuel L. Bray and Drew Nathaniel Keane (editors), The 1662 Book of Common Prayer: International Edition (Intervarsity Press, 2021), ISBN…May 17May 17
Richard MammanaThe Pious Vexillologist, or Flags in ChurchABOUT EVERY OTHER YEAR since I completed studies at Yale Divinity School in 2012, a former classmate — usually a woman, and either a…May 6May 6
Richard MammanaMiss Methodist and Doctor PuseyJane Platt and Martin Wellings, editors, Anglican-Methodist Ecumenism: The Search for Church Unity, 1920–2020 in Routledge Methodist…May 3May 3
Richard MammanaEarly Summer Fences around the TorahDaniel Joslyn-Siemiatkoski, The More Torah, the More Life: A Christian Commentary on Mishnah Avot (Leuven/Louvain, Belgium: Peeters, 2018)…May 3May 3