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
New church added to our “Churches” Page: Reformation Covenant Church of Southern Oregon (Medford, OR - CREC). The liturgy is heavy on singing an chanting, but so is the Bible. It looks challening and demanding, but worship is work. It’s the Lord’s service, after all, where we actively serve the Lord.
But, we also need to [...]
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!
Read a more detailed letter here.
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 [...]
Famous Reformer claims he was just kneeling to pray. Witnesses say they heard him pronouncing an absolution.
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As I work through various books for my postgraduate studies, I’ll leave little bread crumbs for anyone else entering this dark forest. Comments in brackets (and the silliness above) were written by my evil twin, and thus I deny all responsibility.
“In classical Reformed worship [...]
Although I’m not totally on board with their project (still rather old-fashioned in my liturgical and aesthetic tastes), Bruce Benedict and Redeemer Presbyterian have put together some helpful resources on being liturgical and contemporary: Cardiphonia.com. I respect what they’re doing, and wish them will.
A Lutheran tells us why your church should celebrate Trinity Sunday.
Calvin and the [...]
I wanted to let the Reformed liturgical community know of an opportunity for a pastor who wants to lead a congregation in substantive liturgical worship.
Providence Church is a small congregation in Greenville, NC, with loads of enthusiasm for solid preaching and Reformed/catholic liturgy. Greenville is a university town, and the strategic center of Eastern NC.
Interested parties may [...]
Contributor John Allen Bankson has a good piece on Advent Music at Know Tea. I appreciate his perspective, since he actually has musical credentials, unlike most Reformed pastors. Why don’t Reformed seminaries require classes on music?
“I have always loved music. He who knows this art is in the right frame, and fitted for every good pursuit. [...]
On an old I Love Lucy episode, the Ricardos and the Mertzes hired an English teacher to help them with their elocution. (Perhaps people did this sort of thing for fun in the 1950s?) At the start of his lesson, the teacher told them, “There are two words I want you never to use. One [...]
