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Waiting still upon God on Stir-up Sunday

'With piety and confidence resign his soul into the hands of God': Jeremy Taylor and the month of the departed

'Every one makes confession of his own sins with his own lips': on the General Confession at the Holy Communion

'Where the souls of the righteous inhabit': Bishop Bull on the Paradise of the Penitent Thief

What The Episcopal Church can learn from the Trump campaign: a view from across the Atlantic

'By solemn and honorary offices of funeral': Jeremy Taylor and the month of the departed

'As far as shall be consistent with a settled order': William White's 'Commentaries Suited to Occasions of Ordination'

'The expression is to be taken in a spiritual, than in a literal sense': on the invitation 'Draw near with faith'

'In whose hands it shall continue safe and inviolate': Bishop Bull and the Middle State after death

The sombre restraint of Remembrancetide

'The field of God is sown with the seeds of the resurrection': Jeremy Taylor and the month of the departed

'Becoming meet partakers of these holy mysteries': on the Exhortation at the Holy Communion

'We should rather imitate here the modesty of the apostolic Doctors': Bishop Bull and the Middle State after death

'Bitter zeal, ungoverned zeal': a 1691 Gunpowder Plot Day sermon

'By the goodness of Almighty God and his servant Elizabeth we are': Hooker, Elizabeth, and New Elizabethan Anglicans