New Prayer Books for Wycliffe College Chapel
“…The Prayer Book is still the core of my devotional life, and the reason why I am an Anglican.” – Diana Verseghy in conversation with Bishop Stephen Andrews and Rev. Gordon Maitland
Read moreA Millennial on Christianity and the BCP
Louis Harris, a PBSC bursary recipient in 2017, chats about his own faith journey, about the attitudes of the millennial generation towards traditional Christian belief, and about the role of the BCP in the renewal of the church.
Read moreGiving Thanks for Christ Church Cemetery, Poplar Lake, Alberta
The Revd. Don Aellen muses on the power of the BCP burial office in the context of a traditional commital, together with its healing effect on family and friends.
Read moreThe Prayer Book and Wycliffe College
On the occasion of starting his position as Principal of Wycliffe College in Toronto in August 2016, the Rt. Revd. Dr. Stephen Andrews wrote about the past, present and future place of the Book of Common Prayer at the College.
Read moreThe Prayer Book in Mandarin
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 moreRemembering P.D. James
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.
Read moreEaster in Advent and Christmas in Lent
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.
Read moreThe Daily Offices and the Pattern of Common Prayer
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.
Read moreWhat the Hijabi Witnessed
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.
Read moreThe Bishop of London on the BCP
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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