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622: Introductory Notes

Kerry April 29, 2016May 31, 2021 Resource Educational

622 is easy to access, highly adaptable, and it’s intended for any parish seeking to both engage and educate with their programming for youth. The study series aims to facilitate an experience of God—grounded in scripture and tradition—to help youth understand their relationship to God, discovering who they truly are in the process, while at the same time equipping them with the tools they will need to answer the questions posed by life, culture and critics of the faith.

Redeeming the Time, Part 3

Kerry April 21, 2016May 11, 2021 Background Reading

The third of three essays written in 2015 by the Revd. Gordon Maitland, PBSC National Chairman, on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the introduction of the Book of Alternative Services in 1985. This part focuses on the language of worship.

The Prayer Book in Mandarin

Kerry April 6, 2016May 6, 2021 BCP Reflections

Two young Chinese people, James Liu and Morning Wang, have started Mandarin fellowship groups in Toronto Anglican churches. And they are enthusiastic users of the Book of Common Prayer! They were interviewed for the PBSC newsletter in 2016.

Redeeming the Time, Part 2

Kerry October 21, 2015May 11, 2021 Background Reading

The second of three essays written in 2015by the Revd. Gordon Maitland, PBSC National Chairman, on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the introduction of the Book of Alternative Services in 1985. This part focuses on the liturgical scholarship underlying the book.

Redeeming the Time, Part 1

Kerry April 20, 2015May 11, 2021 Background Reading

The first of three essays written in 2015 by the Revd. Gordon Maitland, PBSC National Chairman, on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the introduction of the Book of Alternative Services in 1985. This part contains an overview of developments within the church over those 30 years.

Remembering P.D. James

Kerry February 6, 2015May 15, 2024 BCP Reflections

The celebrated mystery writer P.D. James, who passed away in 2014, was a warm supporter of the Book of Common Prayer and a patroness of the English Prayer Book Society. A past chairman of that Society, Anthony Kilmister, reminisces about her.

PBSC Response to the Commission on the Marriage Canon

Kerry September 29, 2014April 23, 2021 News & Announcements

A notice from the Michaelmas 2014 issue of the PBSC Newsletter, describing the PBSC’s formal response to the proposal to change the marriage canon, in which the Society upheld the classical theology of Christian marriage as laid out in the BCP.

Easter in Advent and Christmas in Lent

Kerry December 5, 2013May 5, 2021 BCP Reflections

The Revd. Gordon Maitland, PBSC National Chairman, reflects on the subtle interplay between the themes of incarnation and atonement during Advent and Lent within the traditional church calendar, as it is preserved in the Book of Common Prayer.

The Daily Offices and the Pattern of Common Prayer

Kerry December 5, 2013May 5, 2021 BCP Reflections

By Aaron James. This essay won the third prize in a competition organized by the PBSC Ottawa Branch in 2012 to mark the 50th anniversary of the Canadian BCP and the 350th anniversary of the 1662 English BCP.

What the Hijabi Witnessed

Kerry August 22, 2013April 22, 2021 BCP Reflections

Attending a service of BCP choral Evensong and seeing a young woman in a hijab sitting in a pew, Presbyterian professor Carl Trueman is led to reflect on the powerful Scriptural witness and the compelling devotion found in the Book of Common Prayer.

Author: Kerry