The First Authorized Version

Even more than the Book of Common Prayer, no other book in the Anglican tradition has shaped the faith and culture of England and the rest of the Anglophone world more than the King James Version of the Bible. It remains to this day, even with dozens of new competing versions,

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Incense and the Gospel

We typically use incense during the Holy Communion service on the first Sunday of each month and, generally speaking, for the important feasts of the year. Why do we do that? In this post, I want to look at the scriptural context for incense. Incense is first and foremost a

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