C. S. Lewis

As I've enjoyed more than a couple conversations recently with younger men coming out of lower churches to embrace more traditional understandings of liturgy, and as I have also had the occasion recently of watching long-time Episcopalians/Anglicans sliding into lower and lower forms of "accessible" worship, I thought I'd post a couple of important essays here which have helped me understand and appreciate some of the more opaque but fundamental aspects of our Anglican way of praising God.

It can be so easy to abandon that which we don't understand.  Similarly, it can be so difficult to be enthusiastic and evangelical about things which aren't obvious and immediately grasped.  (read more...)