revision-matters

GC80 — Online Hearings Soon!

The Episcopal Church plans to hold its General Convention this summer (delayed from last year!). There’s a big innovation this time around: Committees that deal with the resolutions that will come before Convention are starting their work remotely, this winter and spring. That…

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…

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…

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…

Telling us the truth about ourselves

Today is Ash Wednesday, the first day of the season of Lent. The Ash Wednesday liturgy from the Book of Common Prayer (page 267–269) is a powerful and meaningful text for me. I find that it names, clearly and aptly, the ways I tend to fall short of my intentions…

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