| Contents | ||
| Editor’s Notes | Ellen K. Wondra | 409 |
| Myth or Reality? An Introduction to Common Prayer | Richard Geoffrey Leggett | 411 |
| Articles | ||
| Christian Initiation in the Anglican Communion | John W. B. Hill and Rowena J. Roppelt | 419 |
| Text, Shape, and Communion: What Unites Us When Nothing’s the Same Anymore | Ron Dowling | 435 |
| The Daily Offices in the Prayer Book Tradition | Paul F. Bradshaw | 447 |
| Practicing Theology | ||
| Common Prayer: A View from North of the 49th Parallel | Richard Geoffrey Leggett | 461 |
| Initiation in Aimai (Ambiguity): A Cultural Perspective from Japan | Shintaro David Ichihara | 473 |
| Common Worship in the Church of England: Of the Braiding of Many Bridges There Is No End | Priscilla White | 479 |
| Anamnesis in the Lakota Language and Lakota Concepts of Time and Matter | Paul Sneve | 487 |
| Saint Paul’s Chapel in New York City: A Case Study | Marilyn Haskel, Jacob Slichter, and Clay Morris | 495 |
| An Ordo of Liturgical Consultation: The International Anglican Liturgical Consultations in 2013 | J. Eileen Scully | 505 |
| Future Directions in Liturgical Development | Sylvia A. Sweeney | 517 |
| Poetry | ||
| Purging | Deborah J. Shore | 525 |
| Yet Another | Marjorie Maddox | 526 |
| Benediction | Don Thompson | 527 |
| Samson, Old | Jack Hernandez | 528 |
| Choosing Matthias | Warren Meredith Harris | 529 |
| The Baby’s Lost Finger | Andrew Hudgins | 530 |
| Now and at the Hour of Our Death | Angela Alaimo O’Donnell | 531 |
| Adam Named All the Animals | Bryne Lewis | 532 |
| Evolving Toward the Fall | David Middleton | 533 |
| Vegetables | Sheryl Slocum | 534 |
| Book Reviews | ||
| Thomas A. Baima, editor, A Legacy of Catholic-Jewish Dialogue: The Joseph Bernardin Jerusalem Lectures | Newland Smith | 535 |
| Nicholas Baker-Brian and Shaun Tougher, editors, Emperor and Author: The Writings of Julian the Apostate | David Neal Greenwood | 538 |
| M. Eugene Boring, An Introduction to the New Testament: History, Literature, Theology | Igal German | 541 |
| James H. Cone, The Cross and the Lynching Tree | Tim Vivian | 543 |
| Arnfríður Guðmundsdóttir, Meeting God on the Cross: Christ, the Cross, and the Feminist Critique | Jodi L. A. Belcher | 546 |
| Jonathan Haidt, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion | William Fraatz | 548 |
| Craig Hovey, Bearing True Witness: Truthfulness in Christian Practice | John W. Wright | 551 |
| Robert Davis Hughes III, Beloved Dust: Tides of the Spirit in the Christian Life | Jared C. Cramer | 553 |
| Philip C. Kolin, Reading God’s Handwriting: Poems | Barbara Wuest | 556 |
| Adam Kotsko, The Politics of Redemption: The Social Logic of Salvation | Nathan Crawford | 557 |
| Michael Lapsley, SSM, Redeeming the Past: My Journey from Freedom Fighter to Healer | Jesse Zink | 559 |
| Kimberly Bracken Long, The Eucharistic Theology of the American Holy Fairs | Lester Ruth | 561 |
| Peter W. Martens, Origen and Scripture: The Contours of the Exegetical Life | Edmée Kingsmill, SLG | 564 |
| Ephraim Radner, A Brutal Unity: The Spiritual Politics of the Christian Church | Dustin Resch | 566 |
| Thomas P. Rausch, Eschatology, Liturgy, and Christology: Toward Recovering an Eschatological Imagination | Richard R. Topping | 569 |
| Rainer Maria Rilke, Prayers of a Young Poet | Kevin Hart | 570 |
| J. Denny Weaver, The Nonviolent AtonementandDerek Flood, Healing the Gospel: A Radical Vision for Grace, Justice, and the Cross | Charles Hefling | 572 |
| Rowan Williams, The Lion’s World: A Journey into the Heart of Narnia | Robert MacSwain | 577 |