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Puritans and Protestants

Posted on 26/08/2025 by Scott Anderson

“The truth is that the English puritan’s crusade against all forms of sensuous beauty in worship has had more effect than we realise upon our notion of the worship of the primitive church. It disconcerts us to find that that … Continue reading →

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Some Kelham Hymns

Posted on 25/07/2025 by Scott Anderson

In the 1960’s the Kelham Fathers published a little collection of hymns under the title ‘Some Kelham Hymns’. It cost 4/- (20p.) for 36 pages. They were part of the liturgical renewal of the time, and the Preface points out … Continue reading →

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When did we stop kneeling?

Posted on 11/08/2022 by Scott Anderson

My grandmother (born in 1891) was brought up as a Baptist though not baptised in adolescence. In fact she was baptised before her marriage to my grandfather, at St Mary’s Weymouth, a stronghold of low-church Anglicanism. But my grandmother knew … Continue reading →

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Extended Communion – a new take

Posted on 13/04/2020 by Scott Anderson

I remember the frustration of Anglo-Catholics some years ago when the General Synod decided to tackle the issue of ‘extended Communion’. For the best part of 100 years an increasing number of parishes had been ‘reserving’ the Sacrament, so that … Continue reading →

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Sunday evenings

Posted on 26/09/2014 by Scott Anderson

It is sometimes said that ‘Evensong’ or ‘Evensong and Benediction’ is the typical worship of the Ordinariate, at least in the UK. Certainly, it is more familiar and easier to find your way around than the Ordinariate Form of the … Continue reading →

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