benjamindcrosby.bsky.social
Prayer Book Protestant | Anglican (TEC) | Priest | PhD Student, Ecclesiastical History (McGill University)
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Yeah -- I'm a Prayer Book guy for a variety of reasons, but I think it's *totally* possible to have a revised/contemporary language/etc. daily prayer liturgy that is usable. The Episcopal Church's is pretty good. The new Pray Without Ceasing has advantages too. But the BAS just...isn't that imo.
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To be honest, there is such a proliferation of options/choices you have to make for BAS daily prayer that I'm not even sure how you'd manage to make an app of it. I definitely don't know of any such resource...the 1962 BCP one is the only Canadian one I know if.
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This is very kind - thank you!
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I was really appalled and surprised by that NYT article, as an American resident in the Dominion of Canada.
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I think this is absolutely the appropriate response.
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This was one that I was, frankly, a little nervous to send out into the world -- but I think it's important, because I think that TEC's continued failures at clergy discipline bring the Gospel into disrepute and harm those for whom Christ died.
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Well played!
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This is either very much kinder than I deserve or a plot to saddle me with an absolutely miserable job 😅
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Oh, I'm so thrilled to see this live!!! Hurray!
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That would be fun at some point!!
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For the second one (of the 1550s), Corinna Ehlers, Konfessionsbildung im Zweiten Abendmahlstreit.
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For the first sacramental controversy (till ~1529), Amy Nelson Burnett, Karlstadt and the Origins of the Eucharistic Controversy and especially Debating the Sacraments: Print and Authority in the Early Reformation
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Met weekly for well over a year.
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We had so much fun!!!
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Surely the cat can have a little bit, as a treat!!!!
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Oh, you're right -- this is very insightful.
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Oh, that's very kind, thank you!
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I think the question becomes whether or not the church (in all its all-too-humanness and frequent shabbiness) really is God's normative instrument for reconciling the world to himself in Christ. I think that the New Testament teaches us that it is.
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Amen to that!!
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Quite, yes.
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(and yes, I'm finally reading Middlemarch, and kicking myself for not reading it earlier...)
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Oh, I'd like to read this book!
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Thank you so much!
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Thanks so much for sharing this Vicki. I'm thankful for your faithfulness even as it's been tough going. I think you're absolutely right that a big, and difficult, culture change is needed. We clergy can only do so much if our people aren't genuinely interested in growth/evangelism.
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I think it's worse than that: you not infrequently hear from people that of course we don't *actually* believe the Gospel as presented by the liturgy anymore.
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Yeah, while for ease of use he usually defaults to the secular calendar there are a few gestures like that to connect the readings to the liturgical year
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Oh, and some of the visionary prophetic literature is also omitted — eg a good bit of Ezekiel.
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But you’re right that it is a deviation from the principle of reading through all of Scripture in the office, and I will admit (Cranmer fan that I am!) that I wish he had included it.
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As for Revelation, from the 1549 BCP on it was largely omitted from the daily lectionary (along with the Song of Songs, some legal sections of the Pentateuch, most of 1 and 2 Chronicles). Cranmer didn’t consider it edifying for public reading w/o interpretation.
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Yes - the 1662IE has the original 1662 daily office lectionary (which is actually from 1561). This lectionary was revised in 1871; most 1662s that you will find in circulation use the 1871 lectionary, which aligns the daily readings closer to the church year and so breaks up continuous reading more.