After forty years with the 1979 Book of Common Prayer (BCP), we are wrestling with the discomfort of Prayer Book dissonance.

Around the Episcopal Church, the wider Anglican Communion and the Church at large, new expressions of this ancient way of living in Christian community have surfaced. How can we, as the Episcopal Church, support and uplift those who “live at the heart of the church” while encouraging new vocations, not just to ordained ministry, but to Religious Life as well?