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Matthew S.C. Olver

The Rev. Matthew S.C. Olver, Ph.D., is the Executive Director and Publisher of the Living Church Foundation, Senior Lecturer in Liturgics at Nashotah House Theological Seminary, and a scholar of early Christian liturgy.

The Prayer Book, Memorialization, and Communion Across Difference, Part III

EDITORIAL This is the final part of my three-part essay on these matters. Part I discussed the resolutions proposed by the Task Force on Communion...

The Prayer Book, Memorialization, and Communion Across Difference, Part II

EDITORIAL This second part of my three-part essay on these matters begins the conversation about the first step in the process to add gender-neutral marriage...

The Prayer Book, Memorialization, and Communion Across Difference

EDITORIAL  This article is being published in three parts. Part I looks at the resolutions proposed by the Task Force on Communion Across Difference, which...

The Weight of the BCP at General Convention

This year’s General Convention will consider a second reading of a revision to Article X of the Constitution. It would be very unwise for General Convention to pass this revision.

Pope Francis’ Fiducia Supplicans: Over the Rubicon, past the Tiber, and into a Sea of Change

The recent text from the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF), issued just a week before Christmas, is likely to change, well,...

This Fragile Frame, the Pilgrim’s Home

The image of the pilgrim anchors the biblical vision for the life of the creature who names the biblical God as Lord. Robert Crouse,...

Unity’s Fire

This past summer, I joined my 14-year-old son, Isaac, in a hot, dusty field outside Georgetown, Texas. He was competing at part of the...

A Masterful Survey of the Roman Mass

The Rev. Dr. Matthew S.C. Olver reviews The Roman Mass: From Early Christian Origins to Tridentine Reform.

Ritual Repels the Robots: One Human Response to AI

By Matthew S.C. Olver I’ll admit, I was a bit late to the AI party, or at least to the awareness that AI might be...

An Anglican Reflects on Pope Benedict XVI

(This article first appeared on PrayTell and is being reprinted by permission.) “Habemus papem!” This is not a sentence one expects to hear in Duke...