Richard Pryor
@rpryor03.bsky.social
Progressive politics, traditional liturgics. Exacta, Earth & Altar, Princeton Seminary. That guy who does church music projects.
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If you want to learn more about this trial and what it tells us about Americans and race 100 years ago at a time similar to our own, check out Elizabeth Smith-Pryor, Property Rites: The Rhinelander Trial, Passing, and the Protection of Whiteness. www.amazon.com/Property-Rit...
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December 26, 2025 at 5:03 PM
If you want to learn more about this trial and what it tells us about Americans and race 100 years ago at a time similar to our own, check out Elizabeth Smith-Pryor, Property Rites: The Rhinelander Trial, Passing, and the Protection of Whiteness. www.amazon.com/Property-Rit...
Also, if you've never read or listened to this sermon by Mtr. Erika Takacs about the WORD chord, now's a great time. #9lc #wat www.saintmarksphiladelphia.org/sermons/2015...
This Song Is Best | Saint Mark's Church
A few weeks ago a friend of mine who is a church organist posted a photo on Facebook of her preparations for Christmas. Not surprisingly, it was a picture of a musical score, an arrangement of a hymn,...
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December 24, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Also, if you've never read or listened to this sermon by Mtr. Erika Takacs about the WORD chord, now's a great time. #9lc #wat www.saintmarksphiladelphia.org/sermons/2015...
You can find this arrangement of "I saw three ships" in Carols for Choirs 6, which has some real gems in it by composers like Jerrick Cavagnaro, Marques L.A. Garrett, and Ghislaine Reece-Trapp. (And also some stuff I heard and was like "hm, I don't think we needed another version of that") #9lc
December 24, 2025 at 4:18 PM
You can find this arrangement of "I saw three ships" in Carols for Choirs 6, which has some real gems in it by composers like Jerrick Cavagnaro, Marques L.A. Garrett, and Ghislaine Reece-Trapp. (And also some stuff I heard and was like "hm, I don't think we needed another version of that") #9lc
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This lesson is proof for the Anglophiles in the USA that you don't have to have a British accent to read the Word of Lord with purpose and gravity. (You can do that with *any* accent!) #9lc 🕯️
December 24, 2025 at 3:21 PM
This lesson is proof for the Anglophiles in the USA that you don't have to have a British accent to read the Word of Lord with purpose and gravity. (You can do that with *any* accent!) #9lc 🕯️
What do modular smartphones, Marilynne Robinson, and Wendell Berry have to do with discerning what common prayer looks like? After Monday's @earthandaltar piece, I suggest that "modular liturgies" could be the future of common prayer in #TEC.
earthandaltarmag.com/posts/modula...
earthandaltarmag.com/posts/modula...
“Modular Liturgies” as Common Prayer for the 21st Century — Earth and Altar
Editor’s Note: This is the second in a two-part series on Anglican Congregationalism and liturgical reform. The first part can be found at this link . In the mid-2010s, there was a trend in sma...
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December 19, 2025 at 10:30 PM
What do modular smartphones, Marilynne Robinson, and Wendell Berry have to do with discerning what common prayer looks like? After Monday's @earthandaltar piece, I suggest that "modular liturgies" could be the future of common prayer in #TEC.
earthandaltarmag.com/posts/modula...
earthandaltarmag.com/posts/modula...
First half of a 2-parter up @earthandaltarmag.com on #Anglican liturgical Congregationalism: what does it look like, is it authentic to our tradition, and how do we reform it? Discussing ideas from, amongst others, @liturgy.bsky.social and the Tractarians.
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earthandaltarmag.com/posts/doing-...
“Doing What Is Right In All Eyes”: Combatting Anglican Congregationalism — Earth and Altar
For the last five or so years, at various hearings of the General Convention of the Episcopal Church, on Twitter, or even in conversations about liturgical reform, I have hit two notes: the first, an ...
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December 16, 2025 at 1:03 AM
First half of a 2-parter up @earthandaltarmag.com on #Anglican liturgical Congregationalism: what does it look like, is it authentic to our tradition, and how do we reform it? Discussing ideas from, amongst others, @liturgy.bsky.social and the Tractarians.
earthandaltarmag.com/posts/doing-...
earthandaltarmag.com/posts/doing-...
A great article in @earthandaltarmag.com today by Seminary of the Southwest's Academic Dean (and my former professor in college) Ben King on his experience contributing to Newman's positio and meeting Pope Leo XIV in October! You won't want to miss this. ⚓
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“Home Thoughts Abroad”: in Rome with John Henry Newman — Earth and Altar
They call Rome the Eternal City. So, it is no surprise that my reaction on seeing it this past November was like that of an Anglican priest who visited it in 1833. With Rome lying before him, he stood...
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December 12, 2025 at 4:25 PM
A great article in @earthandaltarmag.com today by Seminary of the Southwest's Academic Dean (and my former professor in college) Ben King on his experience contributing to Newman's positio and meeting Pope Leo XIV in October! You won't want to miss this. ⚓
earthandaltarmag.com/posts/home-t...
earthandaltarmag.com/posts/home-t...
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Massive institution run by men gets run into the ground in some profound way ➡️ figurehead resigns so people will stop yelling at him ➡️ First Woman Figurehead is appointed to the impossible task of uniting and cleaning up an institution whose wounds have been left to fester for decades/ centuries.
October 3, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Massive institution run by men gets run into the ground in some profound way ➡️ figurehead resigns so people will stop yelling at him ➡️ First Woman Figurehead is appointed to the impossible task of uniting and cleaning up an institution whose wounds have been left to fester for decades/ centuries.
Though with a scornful wonder
Men see her sore opprest,
By schisms rent asunder,
By heresies distrest,
Yet saints their watch are keeping,
Their cry goes up, "How long?"
And soon the night of weeping
Shall be the morn of song.
- Samuel Stone (1839-1900)
Published in Lyra Fidelium, 1866.
#tec
Men see her sore opprest,
By schisms rent asunder,
By heresies distrest,
Yet saints their watch are keeping,
Their cry goes up, "How long?"
And soon the night of weeping
Shall be the morn of song.
- Samuel Stone (1839-1900)
Published in Lyra Fidelium, 1866.
#tec
August 22, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Though with a scornful wonder
Men see her sore opprest,
By schisms rent asunder,
By heresies distrest,
Yet saints their watch are keeping,
Their cry goes up, "How long?"
And soon the night of weeping
Shall be the morn of song.
- Samuel Stone (1839-1900)
Published in Lyra Fidelium, 1866.
#tec
Men see her sore opprest,
By schisms rent asunder,
By heresies distrest,
Yet saints their watch are keeping,
Their cry goes up, "How long?"
And soon the night of weeping
Shall be the morn of song.
- Samuel Stone (1839-1900)
Published in Lyra Fidelium, 1866.
#tec
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just to remind everyone, TEC is supposed to vote on approving Rite I in contemporary English next GC, so we've prepared some proposed renderings for them. I really hope this goes thru! ⚓️
episcopalchant.com/eucharist/eu...
episcopalchant.com/eucharist/eu...
Episcopal Chant: A Liturgical Chant Database
Interactive and downloadable chant settings of liturgical texts approved for use in The Episcopal Church.
episcopalchant.com
July 10, 2025 at 6:54 PM
just to remind everyone, TEC is supposed to vote on approving Rite I in contemporary English next GC, so we've prepared some proposed renderings for them. I really hope this goes thru! ⚓️
episcopalchant.com/eucharist/eu...
episcopalchant.com/eucharist/eu...
What might the confessional heritage of our Anglican tradition have to teach us today? Using the Presiding Bishop's recent op-ed as a jumping off point, I think there's a whole lot. Now up on @earthandaltarmag.com, link below. ⚓ #Episcopal
July 17, 2025 at 2:30 PM
What might the confessional heritage of our Anglican tradition have to teach us today? Using the Presiding Bishop's recent op-ed as a jumping off point, I think there's a whole lot. Now up on @earthandaltarmag.com, link below. ⚓ #Episcopal
Great news for #tec and the #anglican world. Kara is a first-rate teacher and the Diocese of New Jersey (and its neighbors) are full of great churches and people. This is truly what #PTSemLooksLike!
Delighted to announce to the universe that Princeton Theological Seminary will now offer an official Concentration in Episcopal and Anglican Studies!
July 1, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Great news for #tec and the #anglican world. Kara is a first-rate teacher and the Diocese of New Jersey (and its neighbors) are full of great churches and people. This is truly what #PTSemLooksLike!
Make no mistake: if he rose at all
It was as His body;
If the cell’s dissolution did not reverse, the molecule reknit,
The amino acids rekindle,
The Church will fall.
- John Updike, "Seven Stanzas at Easter"
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It was as His body;
If the cell’s dissolution did not reverse, the molecule reknit,
The amino acids rekindle,
The Church will fall.
- John Updike, "Seven Stanzas at Easter"
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April 20, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Make no mistake: if he rose at all
It was as His body;
If the cell’s dissolution did not reverse, the molecule reknit,
The amino acids rekindle,
The Church will fall.
- John Updike, "Seven Stanzas at Easter"
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It was as His body;
If the cell’s dissolution did not reverse, the molecule reknit,
The amino acids rekindle,
The Church will fall.
- John Updike, "Seven Stanzas at Easter"
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Where is the good news for the older of the two brothers in last Sunday's Gospel? To get to a good answer, two twentieth century authors may point us in the right direction - more at the link below. ⚓️
April 4, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Where is the good news for the older of the two brothers in last Sunday's Gospel? To get to a good answer, two twentieth century authors may point us in the right direction - more at the link below. ⚓️
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Here's a whacky idea. What if we all give up service leaflets for Lent? It will save time, money, and, most important, trees. And then we can take on the spiritual discipline of hospitality. 1/3
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March 4, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Here's a whacky idea. What if we all give up service leaflets for Lent? It will save time, money, and, most important, trees. And then we can take on the spiritual discipline of hospitality. 1/3
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.@rpryor03.bsky.social and I have added two new items to Episcopal Chant for those of you planning for Holy Week already! Both stem from the alternative liturgy for Good Friday, approved by GC in 2024-A115:
episcopalchant.com/seasonal/hol...
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episcopalchant.com/seasonal/hol...
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Episcopal Chant: A Liturgical Chant Database
Interactive and downloadable chant settings of liturgical texts approved for use in The Episcopal Church.
episcopalchant.com
February 23, 2025 at 2:43 AM
.@rpryor03.bsky.social and I have added two new items to Episcopal Chant for those of you planning for Holy Week already! Both stem from the alternative liturgy for Good Friday, approved by GC in 2024-A115:
episcopalchant.com/seasonal/hol...
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episcopalchant.com/seasonal/hol...
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OK, Episcopalians, I need your help. I'm doing some copyright research on Howard Galley, and he's the copyright owner for something listed as the "Seabury diary, 1989." Does anyone know what this would have been? 📕
February 14, 2025 at 10:30 PM
OK, Episcopalians, I need your help. I'm doing some copyright research on Howard Galley, and he's the copyright owner for something listed as the "Seabury diary, 1989." Does anyone know what this would have been? 📕
I'll be officiating tonight! Come if you're in town! ⚓
= The Blessing of the Plough =
with molly dances and song
Plough Monday, 13 January 2025, 6:30 pm
at the front entrance of
Trinity Church
33 Mercer Street
Princeton, New Jersey
with molly dances and song
Plough Monday, 13 January 2025, 6:30 pm
at the front entrance of
Trinity Church
33 Mercer Street
Princeton, New Jersey
January 13, 2025 at 7:50 PM
I'll be officiating tonight! Come if you're in town! ⚓
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In a totally non-jokey way, what is lost in the renaming of the feast is a day to reflect on Jesus the Jew. Jesus who first came to lost sheep of Israel. Jesus who came not to abolish but fulfill Torah. Without any of that he doesn’t make much sense. 📕
January 1, 2025 at 6:19 PM
In a totally non-jokey way, what is lost in the renaming of the feast is a day to reflect on Jesus the Jew. Jesus who first came to lost sheep of Israel. Jesus who came not to abolish but fulfill Torah. Without any of that he doesn’t make much sense. 📕
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A while back, @rpryor03.bsky.social and @askwallace.bsky.social and I set Eliza Humphreys' metrical paraphrases of the BCP collects to tunes. Here's St. Stephen's to DETROIT, one of my favorites in the collection:
December 26, 2024 at 3:01 PM
A while back, @rpryor03.bsky.social and @askwallace.bsky.social and I set Eliza Humphreys' metrical paraphrases of the BCP collects to tunes. Here's St. Stephen's to DETROIT, one of my favorites in the collection: