Category: Liturgy

  • Sacraments help fuel harmony in churches

    Sacraments help fuel harmony in churches

    In an attempt to develop an ethos of “real”, modern Christianity, churches sometimes wipe away liturgy and relegate communion to a once-a-month endeavour. But there’s a real danger that, far from improving the culture of a church, it actually creates division. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the great Lutheran theologian, pastor and opponent of Nazism, suggested in his…

  • Why liturgy matters

    The culture within evangelicalism sometimes leads churches to bin liturgy. After all, if we want to have a modern, real faith that’s grounded in what the early, first century church did, why do we need to do all this old-fashioned, stuffy prayer book malarky? But, as an evangelical, I love the liturgy for four reasons:…