Tag Archives: Anglican

Red cassocks

Posted on 16/09/2026 by Scott Anderson

Some of you will remember the scuffle some years ago, when scarlet cassocks were declared to be the privilege of Chaplains to the Monarch here in the UK – and choirs of the Chapels Royal/ This caused a certain amount … Continue reading →

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Music in the liturgy – a new beginning or the end of an era?

Posted on 09/08/2022 by Scott Anderson

I read with interest of the publication of a revised edition of the English Hymnal towards the end of this year. I shall certainly add it to my collection (of English Hymnals) with the 1906 & 1933 editions, the New … Continue reading →

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A reminiscence of Margaret Street

Posted on 05/04/2014 by Scott Anderson

There is concern about a school in Birmingham which, it is asserted, is being targeted by Muslim extremists. A teacher was quoted, earlier in the week, saying that “there is some gender segregation in religious assemblies”. About fifty years ago … Continue reading →

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Re-visiting the past so that the future may be renewed

Posted on 29/12/2012 by Scott Anderson

The poet John Betjeman in his Collins Guide to English Parish Churches, published in 1958, writes a description of an urban church, the product of the Anglo-Catholic revival. ‘Ting-ting’ the single bell calls to Sung Eucharist, because the tower, designed … Continue reading →

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Mother of the Incarnate Christ

Posted on 23/12/2012 by Scott Anderson

A Thanksgiving for the Virgin’s Part in the Scheme of Redemption                                     from an Anglican priest & poet of the early 17th century For that fair blessed Mother-maid,                                                                                           Whose flesh redeem’d us; That she-Cherubin,                                                                        Which unlock’d Paradise, and made                                                                                             One … Continue reading →

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