Benign?
I don’t know. Forty-five minutes for Morning Prayer seems like it would about cover “morning worship”. That which is labelled “Morning Worship” often is, in my experience, a slightly disguised political indoctrination session. One of the glories of the Anglican Communion used to be that you could count on worship services being taken from The Book of Common Prayer, which, among other benefits, reduces the ability of the leader to follow his or her own agenda.
#2
Amen to your last sentence! Unfortunately, the absence of the BCP from regular use has opened the door to all sorts of innovation in our worship and leaves us open to the agenda of officiating priest.
1. The worship for the morning Eucharist at the Conference is actually the same every day. It is not exactly the BCP — I believe it is a version of something in Common Worship: but trust me, there’s nothing unusual or heterodox in it. One of the concerns was precisely to prevent one group or another from hijacking worship and making it about this or that agenda. So even though various provinces will be leading (usually with their own musical choices and celebrants), it is highly unlikely that morning worship will be used as #2 and #3 suggest.
2. Why is Ruth Gledhill so freaked out about the fence? This is a Conference for bishops, not the general public. The Conference press are not creating a propoganda machine; they are snapping photos so that we do not have a thousand photographers roaming around during Holy Communion trying to take pictures of this or that bishop. The reality is that if we let all of the press in, that could happen. On the very first day we had an interest group of some sort standing on the sidewalk accosting bishops and putting pins on their ID lanyards; many of them did not realize that these folks were not part of the Conference. We can’t avoid that sort of thing, but we definitely don’t want it at mass. I challenge anyone to tell me why the people running the Conference are malevolent.
A benign schedule, but folks should check out Ruth Gledhill’s latest blogging to understand the manipulative and even malevolent forces running the show:
http://timescolumns.typepad.com/gledhill/2008/07/lambeth-diary-t.html
Benign?
I don’t know. Forty-five minutes for Morning Prayer seems like it would about cover “morning worship”. That which is labelled “Morning Worship” often is, in my experience, a slightly disguised political indoctrination session. One of the glories of the Anglican Communion used to be that you could count on worship services being taken from The Book of Common Prayer, which, among other benefits, reduces the ability of the leader to follow his or her own agenda.
#2
Amen to your last sentence! Unfortunately, the absence of the BCP from regular use has opened the door to all sorts of innovation in our worship and leaves us open to the agenda of officiating priest.
Two things:
1. The worship for the morning Eucharist at the Conference is actually the same every day. It is not exactly the BCP — I believe it is a version of something in Common Worship: but trust me, there’s nothing unusual or heterodox in it. One of the concerns was precisely to prevent one group or another from hijacking worship and making it about this or that agenda. So even though various provinces will be leading (usually with their own musical choices and celebrants), it is highly unlikely that morning worship will be used as #2 and #3 suggest.
2. Why is Ruth Gledhill so freaked out about the fence? This is a Conference for bishops, not the general public. The Conference press are not creating a propoganda machine; they are snapping photos so that we do not have a thousand photographers roaming around during Holy Communion trying to take pictures of this or that bishop. The reality is that if we let all of the press in, that could happen. On the very first day we had an interest group of some sort standing on the sidewalk accosting bishops and putting pins on their ID lanyards; many of them did not realize that these folks were not part of the Conference. We can’t avoid that sort of thing, but we definitely don’t want it at mass. I challenge anyone to tell me why the people running the Conference are malevolent.