Celebrating the Book of Common Prayer since 1986
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.
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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.
Read moreThe 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.
Read moreThe 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A sermon preached by the then Bishop of London, the Rt. Revd. Richard Chartres, at St. Paul’s Cathedral, London, England, on the occasion of the celebration of the 350th anniversary of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer, held on May 2, 2012.
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