Derek Olsen

Ph.D. in New Testament; former member of Episcopal Church's Standing Commission on Liturgy & Music; proud layman, clergy spouse, and dad of two amazing girls!

[Derek Olsen @haligweorc]

The new version of the St. Bede's Breviary is here: https://t.co/jJ8BPSbIMn. I'm still finalizing features and aesthetics, but this is a more stable and secure version than the previous one

[Derek Olsen @haligweorc]

@HiddenYorkshire @dvdpeters @TheModernist_CA Yes, there definitely is. That's the one I hold. I do believe that the OT documents came together over centuries but were definitively edited together during the Babylonian Exile. And half of the chapter I'm working on (for an intro to the Bible for Episcopalians) says that.

[Derek Olsen @haligweorc]

@DrFrancisYoung @UExeterPress Just purchased and am looking forward to it! Do you have any thoughts on the Anglo-Catholic "British Museum Religion"/Sarum Rite as a parallel sort of recovery/persistence??

[Arlie Coles @ArlieColes]

I would have fed them also with the finest wheat-flour; and with honey out of the stony rock would I have satisfied thee.

📸 Allan Rohan Crite, Boston, 1948

[Derek Olsen @haligweorc]

@John_Barach @erin_zoutendam There's also a significant allegory element that has a lot to do with how male and female characters behave--especially the women

[Derek Olsen @haligweorc]

My completed edition of the Prayer Book Studies series is out today!! Here's my description of the project: https://t.co/AFswmb6Fyt or you could just head to Church Publishing (@ChurchPubInc ) for it: https://t.co/lCcoovadrd

[Georgy Kantor @GeorgyKantor]

Quite an astonishing find at Nicaea. https://t.co/v5xhaWYnhb

[Fleming Rutledge @flemingrut]

Here's the Advent calendar you've been waiting for...
copyright by 2025 Golden Ink, A WNB/TM Joint:

[Derek Olsen @haligweorc]

@HappyThurifer @cdnusboy I've been wanting to do this for a long time and I'm glad that @ChurchPubInc is enthusiastic and behind it!

[Derek Olsen @haligweorc]

@cdnusboy @HappyThurifer I'm editing them now for Church Publishing--current release date is 1/6/2025 provided I can wade through the freaking page proofs!

[Derek Olsen @haligweorc]

@HappyThurifer @cdnusboy The first discussion of this was in Prayer Book Studies 19, 1970, post-V2. They wanted to boost Advent content in its collects and move this to Epi4 (p24). So, Liturgical Renewal Movement emphasis on collects matching seasons.

[Robin Hobb @robinhobb]

Know what makes you a writer? Not publication. Not followers on social media. Not a laptop or a pretty notebook with a fountain pen in a coffee shop. Not signing books. Not a best seller list.
It's writing. Making marks on paper or pixels on a screen. Do that? You're a writer.

[Derek Olsen @haligweorc]

Prayer Book Studies II (a revision to the Eucharistic lectionary from 1950) is obsolete in the present day having been replaced by the 3-year scheme and then the Revised Common Lectionary. But, it provides a very useful intro to the nuts&bolts of lectionary construction.

[Rev’d Professor Maggi Dawn, Ph.D @maggidawn]

I had a piece published in SEARCH journal recently, on the impact on liturgical formation of the present situation in which fewer people are coming forward for ordination. For those interested in liturgy and theological education, here’s the link: https://t.co/b33GUHvnVU

[Derek Olsen @haligweorc]

@JeffPinyan Excellent --thank you!

[EthiopicManuscriptArt @ArtEthiopic]

Blessings from the ብሉየ፡ መዋዕል፡ ("The Ancient of Days")!

Ethiopia, 15th c. #ancientofdays #god #blessing #icon #africanicon #africanart

[Derek Olsen @haligweorc]

(Is there an English translation of De DocChr that you prefer?)

[Derek Olsen @haligweorc]

@ThosWilliams67 "Augustine is particularly serious when he's quoting the Psalms, the 4th Gospel or Romans" Well, of course--he's a good Lutheran!

[Derek Olsen @haligweorc]

@ThosWilliams67 Come to Christ Church, then... M and I got your translation of the Confessions--we're stoked for the read-through!

[EthiopicManuscriptArt @ArtEthiopic]

St Takla Hāymānot (ተክለ፡ ሃይማኖት፡), the "Plant of the Faith" 🌱, the Saint with Wings!

Did you know that the Ethiopian saint Takla Hāymānot is also venerated in the Coptic Orthodox Church?

Ethiopia, 18th–19th c. (?) #saint #taklahaymanot #africansaint #africanart

[Ennius @red_loeb]

Matthew the evangelist sitting within the book

BL Harley 2799; 'The Arnstein Bible'; c.1172 CE; Germany, NW. (Arnstein); f.155r @BLMedieval