In each division the Revised Prayer Book would have been carried but for the votes of non-Anglicans, — ‘promiscuous non-Anglicans,’ Mr. J. L. Garvin calls them, to emphasize the fact that they are ...

The archaic spelling of “Holyday” is a tipoff to the book’s longevity. First published in 1951 by the Hebrew Publishing Company, this Hebrew-English prayer book, or machzor, has been used by multiple ...

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There is nothing in the world quite so English as the Book of Common Prayer, and as England fades from existence, you might expect it to do the same. Yet long after England is absorbed into Airstrip ...

Charles Hefling and Cynthia Shattuck, eds. Oxford University Press Nothing illustrates the evolution of Anglicanism more than the changing role of the Book of Common Prayer. For centuries the prayer ...

While this is a brilliant book, it's not quite the one its subtitle leads the reader to expect. "The Book of Common Prayer and the Elizabethan Age" seems to suggest a history of the making and ...

MEN serving jail time in Hampshire are among the first in the country to be handesd out copies of a 350-year-old prayer book. Inmates at HMP Winchester have started getting copies of the 1662 Book of ...

(JTA) — When a local Orthodox synagogue asked me to lead Yom Kippur prayers six years ago, one aspect of the request stood out: Was I comfortable using the “High Holyday Prayer Book” translated and ...