Thomas Cranmer is mostly remembered today for his wise and beautiful crafting of The Book of Common Prayer, one of the masterpieces of the English language. Few remember the beauty of his death.

But nearly 500 years after the creation of the Book of Common Prayer by Archbishop Thomas Cranmer, many people, even priests, find its prose not so much eminently quotable, as mystifying.

Henry VIII showed good taste when he asked Thomas Cranmer to craft a text to shape his subjects ... it pleased almost no one. Cranmer would update it in 1552, the Protestant-leaning regency of ...

Sacred Mysteries: Mass, with words by Thomas Cranmer. Christopher Howse is astonished to find the Protestant reformer's prayers adopted by Roman Catholics ...

In her new book Black Liturgies: Prayers, Poems, and Meditations for Staying Human, Cole Arthur Riley centers Black emotions, experiences, memories and bodies in every prayer, mantra and poem.