As a follow-up to the last post, I just learned that The Society for the Study of Eastern Orthodoxy and Evangelicalism is starting up again. Anyone interested in being on the mailing list should contact Brock Bingaman at Loyola University Chicago: BBINGAM@LUC.EDU
Bobby Neal Winters has a good article on ”Worshiping After the First Date” in a recent Touchstone. It’s a balanced introduction to thinking about liturgical maturity.
This Christmas, consider supporting the King’s Meadow Endurance Team. George Grant is an advocate for substantive, classical Reformed liturgy, and they have exciting plans to expand into a full liberal arts college!
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Although this site continues to get steady traffic, I find myself too busy in my family and my studies to develop it as it could be. If anyone out there would like to contribute, either as a writer or an editor, let me know. The original vision was for this site to be a resource, [...]
I came across an exciting mission opportunity for academics. This organization sends Christian teachers into other countries, finding positions for them in secular universities. A quote on their home-page says it all:
“The university is a clear-cut fulcrum with which to move the world. Change the university and you change the world,”
declared Dr. Charles Malik, former [...]
A reader wrote in his observations on current liturgical events, and I decided to post part of it here, since it highlights many of the reasons this blog exists:
“I am a convinced Protestant, though I was confirmed in a predominantly Anglo-Catholic communion (Anglican Province in America) last year. My hopes are to return to a more Reformed/Presbyterian liturgical communion sometime [...]
Leithart asks a good question about the apparent “hugeness” of the Orthodox church which attracts some converts:
“And, on still another hand: Isn’t converting to Orthodoxy a tad restricting? Is she going to find the same church everywhere? Isn’t she going to have a hard time finding that huge church in Chile, Guatemala, or Austria?”
Speaking as one who [...]
Although I’m a card-carrying member of the Confederation of Reformed Evangelical Churches, and a proponent of the liturgical renewal happening in the CREC (by God’s grace), we need to maintain a Biblical balance between “reforming our liturgy” and evangelizing the world. I’m tired of hearing that folks have left some PCA or OPC church in [...]
Earlier, I was wondering why priests in older rites face the altar, rather than the people. Now, consider the question of when he should eat. Should he eat first, or should he wait for the rest of the congregation to be served? The main argument I’ve heard for waiting is a slim appeal to 1 [...]
Let me first say that I think we Reformed folks who are seeking a more informed (rather than deformed) liturgy have a lot to learn from our faithful Anglican brothers. But, the task is complicated by the wide variety within traditional Anglicanism. Who is really being faithful to the spirit of Anglicanism? If we borrow [...]
