There’s a sense in which it’s been in development for more than 20 years, from the time an older woman in my Baptist church ...

Charles Hefling and Cynthia Shattuck, eds. Oxford University Press Nothing illustrates the evolution of Anglicanism more than the changing role of the Book of Common Prayer. For centuries the prayer ...

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A collaborative venture of the Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter, Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross, and the Anglicanorum Coetibus Society ...

The investigative powers of science and art have combined to identify a bejeweled Book of Hours in Trinity College Cambridge’s collection as belonging to English statesman Thomas Cromwell, who served ...

While this is a brilliant book, it's not quite the one its subtitle leads the reader to expect. "The Book of Common Prayer and the Elizabethan Age" seems to suggest a history of the making and ...

With the proliferation of new prayer books in recent years, U.S. synagogues are struggling to figure out what to do with all their old volumes. JTA’s Chavie Lieber reports. NEW YORK (JTA) — After ...

This is the book that first showed me that prayer is more than talking to God whenever I want, about whatever I want. In its pages, I met the monks and mystics and poets and pilgrims who have ...

The book that the bishops are voting to create will be a compilation of those prayers, drawn from multiple sources traditionally used in ministry to the sick. Only priests are allowed to perform the ...