Richard MammanaAfterwit and the Book of Common PrayerSamuel L. Bray and Drew Nathaniel Keane (editors), The 1662 Book of Common Prayer: International Edition (Intervarsity Press, 2021), ISBN…5 min read·May 17, 2024----
Richard MammanaThe Pious Vexillologist, or Flags in ChurchABOUT EVERY OTHER YEAR since I completed studies at Yale Divinity School in 2012, a former classmate — usually a woman, and either a…7 min read·May 6, 2024----
Richard MammanaMiss Methodist and Doctor PuseyJane Platt and Martin Wellings, editors, Anglican-Methodist Ecumenism: The Search for Church Unity, 1920–2020 in Routledge Methodist…3 min read·May 3, 2024----
Richard MammanaEarly Summer Fences around the TorahDaniel Joslyn-Siemiatkoski, The More Torah, the More Life: A Christian Commentary on Mishnah Avot (Leuven/Louvain, Belgium: Peeters, 2018)…3 min read·May 3, 2024----
Richard MammanaO God, make speed to save us from smart phonesJohn Cassian, How To Focus: A Monastic Guide for an Age of Distraction (Princeton University Press, 2024, Ancient Wisdom for Modern…3 min read·Apr 27, 2024----
Richard MammanaThe Big Church in the Middle of the Block: O. Henry’s Little Church around the CornerO. HENRY’S ONLY REAL BRUSH WITH RELIGION while he was alive took place when he sang in the choir of St. David’s Episcopal Church in Austin…7 min read·Apr 17, 2024--1--1
Richard MammanaAnglo-Catholic Queen of Puritan BabylonNathaniel Silver and Diana Seave Greenwald, Isabella Stewart Gardner: A Life (Princeton University Press for the Isabella Stewart Gardner…4 min read·Apr 14, 2024----
Richard MammanaAnglican Reading: Robert McNeil’s Burden of DesireAMERICANS OF A CERTAIN VINTAGE remember a public broadcast called the MacNeil/Lehrer Report — the great example of a kind of television…4 min read·Apr 12, 2024----
Richard MammanaEclipse, Annunciation, DayspringAN ECLIPSE ON THE ANNUNCIATION is the curious convergence of the solar and lunar cycles on which Christianity runs. The Nativity or…3 min read·Apr 8, 2024----
Richard MammanaTerry Brown, Bishop in Four WorldsAN EMAIL FROM ARCHBISHOP LINDA NICHOLLS, Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, sent waves of grief around the world quickly on the…10 min read·Apr 4, 2024--1--1