http://forums.shipoffools.com/index.php?p=/ Thu, 10 Sep 2026 23:47:07 +0000 en Anglicanism — Ship of Fools http://forums.shipoffools.com/index.php?p=/discussion/6268/reimagining-liturgy Mon, 10 Feb 2025 22:37:08 +0000 Ecclesiantics Tyler Durden 6268@/index.php?p=/discussions
This began after one particular service in which I wanted to keep people in an engaged attitude of prayer/hushed silence with room for the Spirit to move freely and people to respond rather than 'breaking the spell' - or the bubble - by getting them to stand and recite the creed before asking them to sit and try and get *back* into a prayerful space.

It works well and everyone including the most traditional among us are happy or even prefer it.

Given that, I am currently working on a theological reflection on this, commending it to the Church as a whole as a better - or at least, alternative - way of doing things. And obviously there is some precedent for doing this (or at least for not having the creed after the sermon) because in the BCP, the creed is before the sermon. And the sermon is followed by the intercessions albeit with a sentence and the collection inbetween but this is again a quiet time in which people can sit and reflect and being passed the collection bag is significantly less disruptive to that than standing to say the creed.

So:

Is this legal?!

Do people think it's a good idea?

For me, the answer to the second is more important (!) and if that is a clear yes, then surely it would be possible to change the law anyway?

Look forward to hearing your thoughts.

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