Monthly Archives: April 2006

Here’s a fabulous procrastination project when you have Really Important Things to do that you’re studiously avoiding… Print out and look over Morning and Evening prayer in: the English 1549, 1552, 1559, and 1662 BCPs; the Scottish 1637 BCP (Laud’s … Continue reading →

The reason I put up the previous post is because it provides background for thinking about how (if? where?) apocayptic does or should function in our theology. I suggest that Käsemann was right–but not in the same way he meant … Continue reading →

The Throned One of the Lounge used to encourage grad students mired in the throes of cramming for comps by telling us, “Just wait till it’s over; you’ll be able to look back and think ‘I was so smart then…’”. … Continue reading →

Now for a slightly different Good Friday theology… But at the ninth hour, penetrating to hades, [Jesus] there by the brightness of His splendour extinguished the indescribable darkness of hell, and, bursting its brazen gates and breaking the iron bars … Continue reading →

Okay–most of the people who are talking about demographics in regard to mainline church decline are being overly simplistic. And I’m tired of it. The way the debate is normally framed is this–Conservative: The mainline churches are declining because they … Continue reading →

This morning–against my usual custom–I was led to use Rite I. In reading through it, I was slightly annoyed that the removed the traditional directions for canticles and put the Te Deum at the end of the list as if … Continue reading →

I know that there are a lot of different reasons why your average Episcopal/Anglican lay person (not to speak of clergy…) don’t pray the Offices. I wonder, though, if it might be worth creating and desseminating an “instructed” Office. That … Continue reading →