Jenny Geddes Led Me Astray

The Book of Common Prayer

The death of Thomas Cranmer at the stake, with Queen Mary looking on

Dear Friends,

Today I'd like to share with you a very old book with which I am only recently becoming familiar.

I grew up a dyed-in-the-wool Presbyterian, a communion that certainly tends toward the ascetic: we don’t go in for smells and bells and vestments and crosses. The most extreme …