The Tyranny of the Codex — Worship of Technology and American Prayer Book Revision

When your liturgical texts tell you your parts are abhorrent

At a recent clergy day, the gathered clergy of the Diocese of Milwaukee said Morning Prayer together. In so doing, we said the Te Deum (Rite II) together, and one line jumped out at me: “When you became man to set us free…

Common Prayer in a Global Church

Episcopalians have long been known as a people of the book — the Book of Common Prayer, that is. This is a wonderful reputation to have. There is something powerful in the idea that “o’er each continent and island …. the voice of prayer is never silent.” To be able to…

Where we stand.

Revision Matters is intended as a forum for Episcopalians to talk about why revision of the Book of Common Prayer matters to us and to our churches. We created this forum because we believe this is an important moment for this conversation in our church.

How the church makes clergy

… and why it should think about changing

I recently found myself attending two ordinations in one week, after not having been to one for quite a while. As a result, the language of the ordination service struck me afresh.

Two Tweaks

My credentials to talk about revising the Book of Common Prayer are pretty meagre. I currently serve a medium-sized parish as rector, though most of my ministry has been at bedsides in hospital ICUs and Emergency Departments with people who wouldn’t know what a BCP is or, probably, care. I come from…

Wednesday thoughts on A068

Sometime in the next two days, a resolution addressing Prayer Book revision will come before the House of Deputies. This version of the resolution is new to the Deputies; it was adopted by the House of Bishops as a replacement for the text of the resolution that passed the House of…

Reflections on Liturgy in a Multicultural Context

Of queens and fathers

Most of us can readily agree that God isn’t actually a man or male in some fundamental or exclusive sense. And I think many people understand the value in moving away from gendered language for God, with its implication that some humans are made *more* in God’s image than others.