I saw this video and bought the book. After using it for a full month I find that it is much more accessible to me than the BCP. I love the fact that I repeat the Psalms each month as there is so much in each one that I miss a lot the first time around. The prayers are also great to guide me and the fact that the mid-day is shorter allows me to get on with my work through the day. I feel blessed when I speak the words and ponder the wisdom in them. My only negative is that as having dyslexia I find the small print hard to read at times and wonder if there is a large print version in either Dyslexic or Comic Sans font. Chris x
You can get a Kindle version of this book so that you can change the size of the font to suit your needs. I have got both the hardback and digital version so I alternate between the two.
Great overview. I was interested in this just to push me to pray the Psalms in a different translation. I may still try it, but I really dislike the singularization of the prayers as you mentioned. I suppose I can change it back as I pray through it.
Praying them "in the plural" is what I did; I should also say that they didn't do this in every case when a prayer was taken from the BCP; but in a few cases that stuck out to me.
Have you looked into Be thou my Vision by Jonathan Gibson it is sort of a BCP from a more reformed review point. I was raised Methodist but am now apart of a non-liturgical tradition(7th day advent), I have been seeking ways to add a liturgical rhythm to my spiritual life as well as reconnecting with the church fathers...I have found you though a 2006 blog post on Paleo-orthodoxy. I am trying to decide now between a BCP, Be thou my Vision, and Psalms in 30 days. Do you have a recommendations?
I saw this video and bought the book. After using it for a full month I find that it is much more accessible to me than the BCP. I love the fact that I repeat the Psalms each month as there is so much in each one that I miss a lot the first time around. The prayers are also great to guide me and the fact that the mid-day is shorter allows me to get on with my work through the day. I feel blessed when I speak the words and ponder the wisdom in them. My only negative is that as having dyslexia I find the small print hard to read at times and wonder if there is a large print version in either Dyslexic or Comic Sans font. Chris x
You can get a Kindle version of this book so that you can change the size of the font to suit your needs. I have got both the hardback and digital version so I alternate between the two.
Great overview. I was interested in this just to push me to pray the Psalms in a different translation. I may still try it, but I really dislike the singularization of the prayers as you mentioned. I suppose I can change it back as I pray through it.
Praying them "in the plural" is what I did; I should also say that they didn't do this in every case when a prayer was taken from the BCP; but in a few cases that stuck out to me.
Have you looked into Be thou my Vision by Jonathan Gibson it is sort of a BCP from a more reformed review point. I was raised Methodist but am now apart of a non-liturgical tradition(7th day advent), I have been seeking ways to add a liturgical rhythm to my spiritual life as well as reconnecting with the church fathers...I have found you though a 2006 blog post on Paleo-orthodoxy. I am trying to decide now between a BCP, Be thou my Vision, and Psalms in 30 days. Do you have a recommendations?
I havent seen “Be thou my vision”, so I can’t speak to that one. Sounds interesting. It’s hard to go wrong with a BCP
Thank you so much for this book review. I have been looking for resource to begin praying the daily office.
Book of Common Prayer: Baptist Edition
EDIT: "Lord help me I need your grace." No, no ,no. The *whole point* is to join *others* in this devotional.