The Episcopal "Reform of the Reform"

[friarjohn]

"The Episcopal Church is passing through a watershed era. I believe that as the Baby Boomers begin to fade out and Generations X and Y begin asserting our voices, yet more changes remain on the horizon. As these changes are coupled with the growth of information technology, emerging/evolving soical media, and widespread social changes, I think we’

Comments

[daisydumont]

as a baby boomer, i tend to feel a bit ruffled over subsequent gens' disdain for my own gen. no, seriously. those were interesting links, though! i downloaded a free bilingual section of the breviary (cool!) and enjoyed reading your words at your blog. these are interesting times.

[friarjohn]

This is not so much about "boomers" verses "the rest of us" as it is more about trying to be heard over the assumptions of others.

[mr_wes]

Wow! He said exactly what I've been haphazardly thinking. It's nice when someone can take your thoughts and make them coherent. It also feels heartening to find more and more people of the same mindset and actually see how the movement is growing.

[dewittar]

I love the quote you pulled above but Derek's larger post goes through my head like a nail. I could not possibly take greater exception to the several places he takes it. It's as if we are in two deeply different traditions. His self-disclosure as a medievalist is most likely the source of my departure.

[friarjohn]

Some of the discussion on the blog plays some of this out.

While I doubt seriously that they are completely separate traditions, I do think he is coming from a different place. I come from a different place than you or he dose. The problem, and this is the source of the tone of his and my posts, is the assumption that we all look alike, and think alike.

There has been a through break down of the concept of "common prayer" in that so many are simply not using what is the definitive form of our worship. This has caused no small amount of the breakdown in TEC, left, right and center.

Do I object to experimental liturgies? Not in principal. What I object to is the loud proclamation that some particular form of the liturgy is what I like or is the de-facto way of the future because "the kids" like it.

Now, give me some of your objections, lets see if they can be parsed out.

[sravakavarn]

Interesting.