The C of E website is very helpful for those wanting to use an authorised form of Morning or Evening Prayer. It includes both Common Worshi...

As well as fitting in with the season and the Bible passages, I sometimes have the following categories of songs in mind: well known rousing...

What does the Extended Preface for use with Eucharistic Prayers A, B and E from Easter Day until the Eve of the Ascension mean when it says:...

Archbishop Cranmer complained: the manifold changings of the Service [in the pre-Reformation liturgies], was the cause, that to turn the Boo...

On the exhortation to Lift Up Your Hearts at the Supper, see: John Calvin, 'Form for Administering the Sacraments' in Treatises on t...

Note to self: it might be worth thinking about the relationship between Word and Sacrament in a Brethren context. Malcolm Maclean describes ...

I just don't understand why we, the conservative Evangelical, really Bible-believing Christians, don't sing the Psalms (Col 3:16). I...

Some words based on verses from Psalm 51 that I used to open the service on Sunday evening: Have mercy on us, O God, according to your u...

According to Rev'd Doug Wilson's weblog: Jerome commented that in the early church, when visitors used to come the church, they were...

The Church of England Newspaper (CEN) reports in brief on p3 that All Saints North Street, York was packed out for The Mass of Our Lady whic...

Why didn't any of the fun bits of the BCP (the commination, churching of women, prayers for rain etc.) get the modern language treatment...

If I may say so, if you are finding part of the service to be mindless repetition, you should think about it! The problem may very well be i...

I understand that under the Lincoln judgement it is illegal for a Church of England minister to make the sign of the cross while conducting ...

One of my fellow ministers explained to me that in her church, once a year they have a "commentated mass" where they explain the o...

I stand by my earlier comments about designing new furniture for a sinking ship but I think the top 2 liturgical reforms I'd like to see...

Do you think An English Prayer Book (OUP, 1994), the work of The Church Society, which is largely a modern language adaptation of the Book ...

Our church services are pretty liturgical and the liturgy is good stuff - most of it from the Bible or there abouts. So let's do it appr...