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‘Who presides?’ (part one)
I expect that this will be the first in a series of posts on the subject of whether or not a person who is not an ordained priest may legitimately ‘preside’ at the Eucharist or Holy Communion service....
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‘Who Presides?’ (Part Two)
(See part one here). Who presided at celebrations of Holy Communion in the early church? Truthfully, it’s hard to know. And one of the problems is that we have such a hazy idea of what actually went...
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Jesus Christ, Inc.
I haven’t had time to do the research for my third post on lay-presidency at Holy Communion. However, I was delighted by John Richardson’s fine post on the theology of Holy Communion. Here’s how he...
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Confession…
Deep down inside, I am an old-fashioned, low-church evangelical Anglican. That means I like a simple liturgy, a spiritual worship, centred on what Donald Coggan called ‘the Sacrament of the Word’,...
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What is the Church For?
Over at the Lay Anglicana blog, Laura Sykes has been putting together a ‘wish list’ for the sort of person who should be appointed as the new Archbishop of Canterbury. In her view, very early on in the...
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On not taking advantage of lawful liturgical flexibility
There’s an interesting post over at Anglican Down Under exploring what is required of people leading Anglican services in New Zealand, where, it appears, there is a rather confusing mishmash of...
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On using the Psalms as a regular part of Sunday worship
Our own private griefs are, often enough, quite paltry: but we are invited to join in the gigantic earth-shaking laments of the psalms. Our own criteria for happiness are selfish and small: but we are...
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