Christianity

Looking at my prayer books

I have described on this blog awhile back about how I came to be interested in The Book of Common Prayer, so I…

David & Bathsheba

In the spring of the year, the time when kings go out to battle, David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel…

Sons

Reading from the Daily Offfice selections from the 1979 BCP today: 1 Sam. 20:24–42, Acts 13:1–12, and Mark 2:23–3:6. This is kind of a weird detail, but it just kind of stuck out in my reading: Each reading has the word “son” (or “Son”) in it, all in slightly different contexts. For example, in the 1 Sam. reading…

I’ve been away so long!

Last time I posted on Bible and Prayer Book, it was the middle of Lent. Now…

Abraham & Isaac: Sacrifice

This morning I read from the Daily Office of the 1928 Book of Common Prayer, and the Old Testament Lesson was…

Jars of Clay (not the band)

But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us. (2…

1662 Book of Common Prayer

The wolf & the lamb

The wolf and the lamb shall feed together,
the lion shall eat straw like the ox;
but the serpent — its food shall be dust…

Loaves and fishes, great and small

Year Two, Proper 23