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...been 17 years since the Supreme Court spoke out on the Scriptures' place in public schools. In 1963 it struck down two measures providing for Bible readings and the Lord's Prayer in the classroom. Last week the court spoke again on this fundamental issue, ruling that Kentucky's general assembly had gone too far in ordering the posting of the Ten Commandments in public classrooms across the state. The decision is another setback for Americans who want more teaching of moral values in the schools, but it comes at a time when there is growing governmental...
...London Daily Mail thundered last week. What was enraging the editors? It turned out to be the publication of the Church of England's new Alternative Service Book. The book will henceforth be used in liturgy as a modernized alternative to the version of the Book of Common Prayer issued in the 17th century, just after the Roundheads lost power...
This is the first time since 1662 that the Church of England has made any substantial change in its liturgy. The Episcopal Church, the U.S. offshoot of the Church of England, updated its Book of Common Prayer in 1928. But in England a similar effort was blocked by the House of Commons. Parliament did not give the church authority to revise its liturgy until...
...Book of Common Prayer has supplanted the old. The new Alternative Service Book, English church officials insist, is merely to "supplement" the 1662 version. But opponents fear that it will eventually eliminate traditional prayers and King James Bible readings. As evidence, they contend that the old services are already virtually unused in theological schools and in parishes that have used the new rites during an extended trial period...
Proponents of the changes, by contrast, claim that the simpler text will attract people who have fallen away from the church, especially the young. Presenting a copy of the Alternative Service Book to Queen Elizabeth last week, Archbishop of York Stuart Blanch declared that the Book of Common Prayer was "imposed by law upon a largely unwilling church." The new liturgy, he stated, is a "people's book." Perhaps. But traditionalists cite a Gallup survey showing that a majority of English churchgoers favor the old rites over...