Decoding the Date: Some calendar Notes on Eastertide
The author outlines the factors by which the date of Easter each year is calculated and defends the process against suggestions that the date be standardised.
Volume 22 Spring 1990
Editorial
Reflections on prayer and an extract from Carmina Gadelica.
How did Jesus pray?
Reflections on prayer and an extract from Carmina Gadelica.
Easter Sunday: an extract from Carmina Gadelica
Reflections on prayer and an extract from Carmina Gadelica.
Protestant Sacramentalism
Sacramental dimensions of ordinary life and in religion. The place of the arts (and their absence in much Presbyterian worship) is noted, as is the importance of gesture and posture. Roman Catholic views of the such matters are contrasted with those which have emerged in the Protestant tradition and the charge that a recovery of… Read More
The Place of the Liturgy in the Church
A paper delivered to the Edinburgh University Theological Society The Church is liturgy. Early Reformed documents stress this, but to glorify liturgy to the point of apotheosis is wrong. Liturgy should be understood as all we do as Christians; distinction should not be made between worship and work. In worship, the reality of salvation is represented to… Read More
The Lima Liturgy
This, first celebrated at the Faith and Order meeting at Lima, Peru, in 1982, is reproduced in its entirety, complete with musical responses.
Prayers for the Unemployed
A sample from An Unemployment Worship Book.