Articles by Rev. J. M. Kelman

Rev. J. M. Kelman

Fr Jonah is an Anglican priest and spiritual director, serving as a parish rector in the Diocese of San Joaquin. A California native, he studied Romanticism and Victorian Literature at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. He writes at NewHighChurch.com


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What is the Historic Lectionary?

Indeed, in all of catholicism in the twenty-first century, Anglicanism alone preserves the one-year Eucharistic lectionary that had been fully developed by the church by the seventh century. – Gary Thorne It has been variously titled Classical Lectionary, Ancient Lectionary, One-Year Lectionary, &c., all of which are accurate titles. I expect I will use all…

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A Case for the 1662 Book of Common Prayer

I was chatting with a priest-friend about the 1662: International Edition of the Book of Common Prayer (BCP), and he playfully remarked to me that I must be the only Anglo-Catholic priest in America that likes the 1662IE. He classified it as having mostly a Reformed-Calvinist following. I don’t think this is necessarily the case,…

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