Even the Devils Believe

I’ve been concerned lately with some of the language I’ve heard about Muslims in public and semi-public discourse. There is a growing pettiness and triumphalism about such comments — an attempt, seemingly, to relish every difficulty experienced by Muslim groups and to “put them in their place”, frequently in the name of Christianity.
Perhaps not [...]

I recently read Walter Brueggemann’s Praying the Psalms: Engaging Scripture and the Life of the Spirit after reading Michelle’s review of it on her new blog devoted to the Psalter.
It’s a great treatment of the Psalms, all the more interesting because Brueggemann is (I believe) a member of the UCC who nevertheless sees the Psalter [...]

Scott Wells shared this with me by email — the Scottish Episcopal Church has a ton of liturgical materials available in PDF and Word format on their website. There’s the basic stuff you’d expect — their most recent Book of Common Prayer (called Scottish Liturgy) in English, for instance. But they also have a [...]

From NLM comes the news that the Community of St Martin, Solesmes, and others have gotten together to finally produce a Latin antiphonal for the Liturgy of the Hours. More information is available here.
As usual, the comments at NLM contain some useful background information from Fr Augustine Thompson, OP — I’ve learned most of [...]

When I got back from Atlanta this afternoon, I had something exciting waiting for me:

Lancelot Andrewes Press did an exceptional job with this reprint. The cover is a nice, soft, supple leather, and the book feels very nice in the hand. I feel like it is larger than the 1961 edition Bp Tim [...]

Christopher from Thanksgiving in All Things posted an interesting reflection on the Anglican Office the other day. It’s long but well worth reading. There were a few points I wanted to highlight:
Cranmer’s spiral is tight and dense. What Cranmer presents in either case is a spare revision suitable for regular parochial as well [...]

Chris of Lutheran Zephyr has a post up playing with an interesting metaphor for the Church’s work of evangelism and formation. Rather than letting the framing of “seeker-friendly” dominate, he suggests we look at the Church in terms of “special exhibits” and the “permanent collection”. Just as museums draw folks with the more [...]

As I mentioned earlier, I’ve been working on an Ordo for the Monastic Diurnal the last few days. The Western Orthodox folks behind Lancelot Andrewes Press put out a publication called “Diurnal Notes” every week which is nice, going into a lot of detail about each Office for each day. However, they follow the [...]

I meant to post about this and forgot somehow… Lancelot Andrewes Press has announced that they are making Monastic Breviary Matins, the companion volume to the Monastic Diurnal, available for $45 a copy starting April 9th. It’s available for pre-order now — just click on the Andrewes Press link and scroll down to [...]

I hope all of you are having a blessed Triduum. The schedule is often hectic for everyone, but there is something nice about turning over most of our waking action to the celebration of the liturgy and para-liturgical devotions. The nearby TEC parish has Stations both today and tomorrow at noon — I [...]