BAPTISM AND CONFIRMATION

My last two sermons (well, as you're reading it, my last sermon and the one immediately above this post) have to do with baptism in one way or another. Last weeks was specifically about baptism, tomorrow's is an Annual Meeting sermon utilizing baptism to help draw people more fully into the life of the parish.

Fr. Jake had a post in which the comments were centered on baptism and confirmation (at least for awhile).

And the ATR has featured a couple of articles in recent volumes that have discussed baptism and confirmation; more accurately, the nature of confirmation within the framework of the 1979 BCP baptismal ecclesiology.

I'm slightly (okay ... WAY) behind on my reading, so I'm still sort of working on the summer edition, but this volume had a couple articles about this topic. One by Ruth A. Meyers, Academic Dean and Professor of Liturgics at Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, and one by James F. Turrell, Assistant Professor of Liturgics at the School of Theology of the University of the South. Other volumes have included pieces by other people, Kathryn Tanner among them.

So it seems that baptism/confirmation is something worth having a discussion about. It's been awhile since I have posted anything of substance (other than sermons, of course), and with Monday being a holiday I think maybe I'll put together a post on that topic.

Have a good weekend.