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Richard Pryor

@rpryor03.bsky.social
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Progressive politics, traditional liturgics. Exacta, Earth & Altar, Princeton Seminary. That guy who does church music projects.

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Arlie Coles @arliecoles.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
NEW on Episcopal Chant! A short 🧵. ⭐️ A streamlined navigation that now more closely follows the 1979 BCP. Find pointed propers for Sundays now under Holy Eucharist, and for pastoral offices and episcopal services under Other Services. ⚓
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Nintendo DS Lewis ✝️ @blueberrymill.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
No idea but it’s metal as hell Katherine Sonderegger once said off the cuff that the Cry of Dereliction was Jesus Christ’s experience of Beatific Vision. Not the same but orbiting a theme.
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Richard Pryor @rpryor03.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Concerning!
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Tony (Soft on Crime) @adalehunt.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Ppl are out here talking about "Good Shepherd Sunday" when it's also "Early Jerusalem Communism Sunday" 🕯️📕
The First Lesson
Acts 2:42-47
Those who had been baptized devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.

Awe came upon everyone, because many wonders and signs were being done by the apostles. All who believed were together and had all things in common; they would sell their possessions and goods and distribute the proceeds to all, as any had need. Day by day, as they spent much time together in the temple, they broke bread at home and ate their food with glad and generous hearts, praising God and having the goodwill of all the people. And day by day the Lord added to their number those who were being saved.
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Richard Pryor @rpryor03.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
"I bid you: Awake, sleeper! I did not create you to lie bound in hell. Arise from the dead, for I am life to whose who have died. Rise up, work of my hands, my likeness, made in my image. Rise, let us go hence." - attr. to Epiphanius II of Cyprus ⚓
An icon of the Anastasis, written by the Rev. Peter Pearson, at the Chapel of the Apostles, Sewanee, TN.
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Arlie Coles @arliecoles.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
It is springtime and we have exciting new things on Episcopal Chant! @rpryor03.bsky.social and I have been hard at work improving this liturgical chant database that aims to make it easy for anyone to get up and chanting. Here's a thread of new stuff: 🧵 ⚓
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Richard Pryor @rpryor03.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
With many thanks to the my colleague in this ministry, the great @arliecoles.bsky.social and the Association of Anglican Musicians, Episcopal Chant has expanded to include the Psalms, Book of Occasional Services, and more! ⚓ episcopalnewsservice.org/pressrelease...
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Richard Pryor @rpryor03.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
I really appreciated "On Priesthood: Servants, Shepherds, Messengers, Sentinels and Stewards" by Stephen Cottrell
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Liz Smith-Pryor @lizsp.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
If you want to learn more about this trial and what it tells us about Americans and race 100 years ago at a time similar to our own, check out Elizabeth Smith-Pryor, Property Rites: The Rhinelander Trial, Passing, and the Protection of Whiteness. www.amazon.com/Property-Rit...
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Property Rites: The Rhinelander Trial, Passing, and the Protection of Whiteness
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Richard Pryor @rpryor03.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Come on...
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Richard Pryor @rpryor03.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Also, if you've never read or listened to this sermon by Mtr. Erika Takacs about the WORD chord, now's a great time. #9lc #wat www.saintmarksphiladelphia.org/sermons/2015...
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This Song Is Best | Saint Mark's Church
A few weeks ago a friend of mine who is a church organist posted a photo on Facebook of her preparations for Christmas. Not surprisingly, it was a picture of a musical score, an arrangement of a hymn,...
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Richard Pryor @rpryor03.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
And we got the chord. Merry Christmas from my apartment in Cleveland to all y'all! #9lc
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Richard Pryor @rpryor03.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
As @sinden.org once said about "Adam lay ybounden," "the world probably doesn’t need any more settings of this text." Wisdom, let us attend - and I don't think that's the only text that we no longer need new settings of, either.
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Richard Pryor @rpryor03.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
You can find this arrangement of "I saw three ships" in Carols for Choirs 6, which has some real gems in it by composers like Jerrick Cavagnaro, Marques L.A. Garrett, and Ghislaine Reece-Trapp. (And also some stuff I heard and was like "hm, I don't think we needed another version of that") #9lc
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Richard Pryor @rpryor03.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Prof. Robin Osborne, Vice-Provost of King's College and a classicist.
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Richard Pryor @rpryor03.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Someone I went to seminary with once compared Rutter to Andrew Lloyd Webber, which works because everything he did in the earlier part of his career is decent (like this), and then the stuff later is just bad to meh.
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Richard Pryor @rpryor03.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
This Willcocks arrangement is a straight up BANGER with that third verse reharmonization for Herod. #9lc
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Richard Pryor @rpryor03.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
John Scott was, in my opinion, one of the best hymn arrangers. This descant is lush and the reharm is great. No one did it like him. #9lc #wat
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Richard Pryor @rpryor03.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
I completely get it - merry Christmas to you and yours, David!
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Richard Pryor @rpryor03.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
I meant the Brits are right - not us.
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Scott Gunn @scottagunn.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
This lesson is proof for the Anglophiles in the USA that you don't have to have a British accent to read the Word of Lord with purpose and gravity. (You can do that with *any* accent!) #9lc 🕯️
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Richard Pryor @rpryor03.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
And they're generally right! Except when they skip Verse 4 of O Little Town (which has the most important theological message in the hymn, tbh). #9lc
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Richard Pryor @rpryor03.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
"Upon another shore and in a greater light &c" is one of the best-written prayers in English. What imagery! #9lc #wat
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Richard Pryor @rpryor03.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Featuring guest appearances by @danjoslynsiem.bsky.social, Twitter icon K.D. Joyce, the New Zealand Prayer Book, Matthew Olver of @livingchurch.bsky.social, and two of my favorite bishops in ++Rowan Williams and +J. Neil Alexander.
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Richard Pryor @rpryor03.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
What do modular smartphones, Marilynne Robinson, and Wendell Berry have to do with discerning what common prayer looks like? After Monday's @earthandaltar piece, I suggest that "modular liturgies" could be the future of common prayer in #TEC. earthandaltarmag.com/posts/modula...
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“Modular Liturgies” as Common Prayer for the 21st Century — Earth and Altar
Editor’s Note: This is the second in a two-part series on Anglican Congregationalism and liturgical reform. The first part can be found at this link . In the mid-2010s, there was a trend in sma...
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Richard Pryor @rpryor03.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
First half of a 2-parter up @earthandaltarmag.com on #Anglican liturgical Congregationalism: what does it look like, is it authentic to our tradition, and how do we reform it? Discussing ideas from, amongst others, @liturgy.bsky.social and the Tractarians. earthandaltarmag.com/posts/doing-...
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“Doing What Is Right In All Eyes”: Combatting Anglican Congregationalism — Earth and Altar
For the last five or so years, at various hearings of the General Convention of the Episcopal Church, on Twitter, or even in conversations about liturgical reform, I have hit two notes: the first, an ...
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Richard Pryor @rpryor03.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
A great article in @earthandaltarmag.com today by Seminary of the Southwest's Academic Dean (and my former professor in college) Ben King on his experience contributing to Newman's positio and meeting Pope Leo XIV in October! You won't want to miss this. ⚓ earthandaltarmag.com/posts/home-t...
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“Home Thoughts Abroad”: in Rome with John Henry Newman — Earth and Altar
They call Rome the Eternal City. So, it is no surprise that my reaction on seeing it this past November was like that of an Anglican priest who visited it in 1833. With Rome lying before him, he stood...
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Helena L. Martin @helenalmartin.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Massive institution run by men gets run into the ground in some profound way ➡️ figurehead resigns so people will stop yelling at him ➡️ First Woman Figurehead is appointed to the impossible task of uniting and cleaning up an institution whose wounds have been left to fester for decades/ centuries.
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Richard Pryor @rpryor03.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
The 106th Archbishop of Canterbury is SARAH MULALLY, BISHOP OF LONDON. #anglican
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Richard Pryor @rpryor03.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
They already have some, TBTG!
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Richard Pryor @rpryor03.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Though with a scornful wonder Men see her sore opprest, By schisms rent asunder, By heresies distrest, Yet saints their watch are keeping, Their cry goes up, "How long?" And soon the night of weeping Shall be the morn of song. - Samuel Stone (1839-1900) Published in Lyra Fidelium, 1866. #tec
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Andrew Raines @makeitraines.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
just to remind everyone, TEC is supposed to vote on approving Rite I in contemporary English next GC, so we've prepared some proposed renderings for them. I really hope this goes thru! ⚓️ episcopalchant.com/eucharist/eu...
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Episcopal Chant: A Liturgical Chant Database
Interactive and downloadable chant settings of liturgical texts approved for use in The Episcopal Church.
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Richard Pryor @rpryor03.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Let me see what I can whip up...
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Richard Pryor @rpryor03.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
You said it better than I could, Hannah. Orthodoxy and orthopraxy can coexist together, and it's very clear that the church understands what the former is but not the latter, and we need to discover the latter, given... everything currently happening.
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Richard Pryor @rpryor03.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Really glad that someone, and especially you, wrote this article. I've found the response of many, this proprietety concern you discuss, to be disheartening. Even if we didn't endorse politicians directly, there is no reason why we shouldn't have a document like the USCCB's "Faithful Citizenship."
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Richard Pryor @rpryor03.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Link: earthandaltarmag.com/posts/in-ess...
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"In Essentials, Unity": A Call for Confessional Anglicanism — Earth and Altar
In a July 3 opinion article for Religion News Service, Presiding Bishop Sean Rowe argues that, in the words of its headline, “The Episcopal Church must now be an engine of resistance.” (1) In rea...
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Richard Pryor @rpryor03.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
What might the confessional heritage of our Anglican tradition have to teach us today? Using the Presiding Bishop's recent op-ed as a jumping off point, I think there's a whole lot. Now up on @earthandaltarmag.com, link below. ⚓ #Episcopal
A pull quote in red: "In considering a return to confessional Anglicanism, we will find the church’s unity and the church’s voice – a way to interpret all the things that matter to us, not just saying the same things over and over again."
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Richard Pryor @rpryor03.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Great news for #tec and the #anglican world. Kara is a first-rate teacher and the Diocese of New Jersey (and its neighbors) are full of great churches and people. This is truly what #PTSemLooksLike!
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Richard Pryor @rpryor03.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
PTS has very very generous scholarship opportunities - every single student gets some form of scholarship or grant. If you feel called, discern and consider it because there may be a financial path forward.
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Richard Pryor @rpryor03.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Proud NYCFC fan here!
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Richard Pryor @rpryor03.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
This is exactly it.
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Richard Pryor @rpryor03.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Hi Christopher - let's talk. I use it, glad to answer questions.
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Richard Pryor @rpryor03.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Make no mistake: if he rose at all It was as His body; If the cell’s dissolution did not reverse, the molecule reknit, The amino acids rekindle, The Church will fall. - John Updike, "Seven Stanzas at Easter" ⚓
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Richard Pryor @rpryor03.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
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A Gospel for the Older Siblings
A Sermon for the Fourth Sunday in Lent
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Richard Pryor @rpryor03.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Where is the good news for the older of the two brothers in last Sunday's Gospel? To get to a good answer, two twentieth century authors may point us in the right direction - more at the link below. ⚓️
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Richard Pryor @rpryor03.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Tagging in @askwallace.bsky.social, former Albany resident!
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Richard Pryor @rpryor03.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
The new Good Friday service slaps!
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Richard Pryor @rpryor03.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
I've got to say, I actually really like the choir dress equivalent for RC bishops of the mozzetta and biretta.
Cardinal Robert McElroy, Archbishop of Washington, in his mozzetta.
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Richard Pryor @rpryor03.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
I remember you mentioning this at AARSBL - so happy you've gotten this!
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Richard Pryor @rpryor03.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Just saw this, but @arliecoles.bsky.social needs to see this as well. #EpiscopalChant
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