The Oakland Press: Liturgy: The Book of Common Prayer gets glossary for new millennia
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Book of Common Prayer, published after the Reformation in order to make church liturgy available in English. Show more Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the ...
The Guardian: The Book of Common Prayer, part 8: Liturgy and society
The Christian Century: The Oxford Guide to the Book of Common Prayer
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 ...
LONDON – The book gave us such phrases as “till death do us part” and “ashes to ashes, dust to dust.” But nearly 500 years after Archbishop Thomas Cranmer created the Book of Common Prayer, many ...
The whole notion of producing a Book of Common Prayer says something significant about the kind of church Thomas Cranmer and his royal patrons believed would best serve the English. Their book defined ...
The gospel is good news because it brings a person into the everlasting and ever-increasing joy of Jesus Christ. He is not merely the rope that pulls us from the threatening waves; he is the solid beach under our feet, and the air in our lungs, and the beat of our heart, and the warm sun on our skin, and the song in our ears, and the arms of our beloved. What Is the Gospel?
We no longer live in the heyday of the gospel-centered movement. But no Christian, however mature, has outgrown the need to remain daily centered on the gospel.