Liturgy & ethics

Stained Glass windows at S. Jude's

The Anglican parish church of S. Jude, Brighton SA 5048 has been rebuilt and extended many times since the first building in 1854. In August 2022 seven new stained glass windows were installed and blessed. You can read more about the windows here

Recent activity in this project:

Recent work in the Liturgy and ethics project has focused on questions arising from online worship during the covid restrictions.

Presentations have been prepared for the Aust Academy of Liturgy conferences held online in January 2021 and January 2022.

AAL 2022: Has online worship encouraged fundamentalism?

AAL 2021: Worship under lockdown – stories from a suburban parish, with Sophie Relf-Christopher

AAL 2021: Spectators are not always Passive.

Preparation of a paper describing the worship and community activities during covid-19 lockdown of the Anglican parish of Brighton, and analysis with regard to Christian identity and the maintenance of a worshiping community. With Reverend Canon Sophie Relf-Christopher.

The changes to worship which followed the disruption resulting from outbreak of the covid-19 virus led to a couple of presentations at an online conference arranged by the Australian Academy of Liturgy in January 2021. These were virtual presentations and links may become available. This link may work. A later presentation for the 2022 conference of the AAL addressed the question of links between online worship and fundamentalism. The paper is available.

.. Not Always Spectators - A Suburban Anglican Experience. H Harris and S. Relf-Christopher. [See Outputs below for a link to published paper.]

.. Spectators are not always Passive. H Harris [later published, see Outputs below.]

Arising from the interest in liturgy and ethics are some items about the work of René Girard. This work gets a 'project' to itself, although that is more about 'fit' than about the extent of my interest and capability in the field.

Outputs from this project:

Harris, H. (2022). Has online worship encouraged fundamentalism? Presentation at AAL National conference: How Can We Sing the Lord’s Song? Liturgy in Times of Global Rupture, online/Melbourne. A copy of the paper behind the presentation is available.

Harris, H. (2021). Spectators are not always Passive. There was a presentation at the Melbourne online gathering of the AAL in January 2021 and then publication in the Australian Journal of Liturgy, 17(3), 153-166.

Harris, H. and S. Relf-Christopher (2020). Worship under lockdown – stories from a suburban parish. There is a working paper prepared in anticipation of publication and of the online presentations at the AAL and a similar item published in the online journal Crucible 11(2).

Presentation at National Episcopal Historians & Archivists, annual conference, New Haven CT, August 2018, on the episcopal ordination of an indigenous bishop, prepared with Bishop McLeod.

An earlier version of this was published in the Australian Journal of Liturgy: Harris, H. (2016) "The Episcopal Ordination of an Anglican Bishop for Ministry Alongside Aboriginal People." Australian Journal of Liturgy v15 no1: 5-16.

A series of short articles about Anglican worship, first appearing in the parish weekly pewsheet and collated as About our Worship in October 2017

Paper written for MTh degree: How to live well: The virtue of love in first century Graeco-Roman Stocism and in the Pauline epistles.