The Book of Common Prayer is nearly 500 years old. Does it still make a difference for how we worship today? I suppose that would depend on who you mean by "we"—there are millions of Christians ...

Father Andrew Menke, executive director of the U.S. bishops’ Secretariat of Divine Worship, told CNA that he hopes the potential new prayer book will be helpful for laypeople who want to ...

The Anglican Book of Common Prayer has long been thought to be the work of men only, but a startling discovery has upended that thinking, with news that not one, but two Queens had a hand in the ...

The main impetus for the drive to rewrite the book — the central unifying text of all Episcopal worship, with roots in the first Anglican Book of Common Prayer, published in 1549 — was a ...

As the Jewish High Holy Days begin on September 13, Jews in the Reform movement begin using the first revision in 40 years to their holiday prayer book. Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly Home ...

Barton Swaim reviews 'The Book of Common Prayer: A Biography' by Alan Jacobs. Henry VIII showed good taste when he asked Thomas Cranmer to craft a text to shape his subjects' worship. Skip to Main ...

They argue that the church's decline began when it started to abandon the original Book of Common Prayer. The Reverend Peter Mullen of St Sepulchre's Church in the City of London has just brought out ...

Barton Swaim reviews 'The Book of Common Prayer: A Biography' by Alan Jacobs. Henry VIII showed good taste when he asked Thomas Cranmer to craft a text to shape his subjects' worship. Skip to Main ...