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“The Book of Common Prayer: A Biography” By Alan Jacobs
To borrow a phrase from faux fashion icon Mugatu in Ben Stiller’s film Zoolander, liturgy is so hot right now. A minister at an evangelical Congregational church in Massachusetts uses the Book of Common Prayer at every baptism. In Texas, at an Emergent congregation with Baptist roots, the praise music ends and they celebrate the […]
“Looking Before and After: Testimony and the Christian Life” by Alan Jacobs
Alan Jacobs lifts the title of his book from Hamlet, but it could just as easily be a description of the Roman god Janus, whom Ovid invokes in his poem “Fasti”: “Two-formed Janus what god shall I say you are,/ Since Greece has no divinity to compare with you?/ Tell me the reason, too, why […]
