A lot of us point to a picture of what we want for a holiday gift and voila! – there it is, beneath the tree or stuffed in a stocking. Then there’s Anthony Torrone. For the better part of his 56 years ...

Charles Hefling and Cynthia Shattuck, eds. Oxford University Press Nothing illustrates the evolution of Anglicanism more than the changing role of the Book of Common Prayer. For centuries the prayer ...

David Keys holds A Simple Prayer Book for Soldiers, issued by the Catholic Truth Society, which belonged to Private James Monaghan that has a hole made by the bullet that killed him A blood-stained ...

(RNS) Jewish soldiers and sailors will read from a new prayer book this Memorial Day, one that aims to satisfy Jews across the spectrum of Jewish practice — a feat its predecessor did not achieve. To ...

BOB ABERNETHY, anchor: There has been a new development in the Reform movement of Judaism, the largest and most liberal branch of Judaism in the U.S. There’s a new prayer book out, and it has been ...

Alan Jacobs explains why the nearly 500-year-old Anglican prayer book retains its influence, and why it should appeal even to (non-Anglican) evangelicals. The Book of Common Prayer (BCP) has had an ...

In anticipation of English prose after the Commonwealth, I had initially found the temptation to include Robert Hooke’s extraordinary Micrographia (1665) next in this sequence almost overwhelming.