Common Prayer was once integral to Anglican identity.
I made several efforts to have worship as seen as integral to the mission of the church. Some examples:
Here in 2008,
in 2012,
in 2013,
and in 2014.
I have regularly argued that spirituality and worship be foundational to church leadership formation, training, and study, even with a spiritual year to build one’s further formation on. All this, so far, has come to nothing.
What fascinated me is that nowhere does Common Prayer even get a mention in the recent draft Lambeth Calls. Not even in “Anglican Identity”!!!
Admittedly, the process of drafting these calls has not been clear: there appears to be a drafting group for each Call, and then there appears to be an editor or leader of each Call, and still after that there appears some others may alter the group’s Call. But there does not seem to have been a process for…
