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Justin Martyr on the Oldest Liturgy and the Apostolic “memoranda”
There's no easy way to say, "apomnemoneumata."

Politics and the Prayer Book Revisions of 1785 and 1789
In the aftermath of the American Revolution the newly Americanized Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States—the successor to the colonial Church of England,…

Justin Martyr: Ostensible Credobaptist
Why does Justin seem to presume the rite is simply for older initiates?

“Union and War”: William G.T. Shedd on Divine Sanction for War and Nationalism, Pt 1.
In the third week of November, 1862, William G.T. Shedd mounted the ornate pulpit of New York City’s Brick Presbyterian Church. Historian Mark Noll…

Joseph Conrad’s Book of Common Prayer
Two allusions to the Book of Common Prayer in Joseph Conrad's VICTORY: AN ISLAND TALE.