Instruction Out of the Past

February 25th, 2025 | 7 min read

Samuel Bray and Drew Keane. How to Use the Book of Common Prayer. Downer's Grove: IVP, 2024. $18.00, 192pp.

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Jake Meador is the editor-in-chief of Mere Orthodoxy. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Commonweal, First Things, Books & Culture, National Review, Comment, Books & Culture, and Christianity Today. He is a contributing editor with Plough and a contributing writer at the Dispatch. He lives in his hometown of Lincoln, NE with his wife and four children.

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