Many in London gathered May 2 in St. Paul’s Cathedral with Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla, to mark the 350th anniversary of the Book of Common Prayer of the Church of England. The book dates to ...

There is nothing in the world quite so English as the Book of Common Prayer, and as England fades from existence, you might expect it to do the same. Yet long after England is absorbed into Airstrip ...

Except for the King James Bible, no book has done more to influence the lives and language of English-speaking people than the Book of Common Prayer. The first Book of Common Prayer was printed in ...

After Shakespeare’s works and the King James Bible, no book has more influenced the English language than the Book of Common Prayer. It has helped to shape writers from Jane Austen to Charles Dickens, ...

A “biography” of the Book of the Common Prayer. My mother, now with the Lord, used to have a stack of devotionals that she would work through systematically. An old-guard evangelical, and without any ...

John J. Miller is joined by Patrick Timmis of Hillsdale College to discuss The Book of Common Prayer. Continue reading this article with an NRPLUS subscription. Join today: $6/month Already a member?

I’m an atheist, but don’t get me wrong—I have the same yearnings as a religious person. I think we all do and, in a way, we all pray. Religion is a window on humanity, a Rorschach blot for ...

I’m an atheist, but don’t get me wrong—I have the same yearnings as a religious person. I think we all do and, in a way, we all pray. Religion is a window on humanity, a Rorschach blot for ...