LiturgicalCredo.com’s Blog

Somewhere between Pentecostal church services held in living rooms and the liturgically oriented Episcopal Church — at some point along a ten-year journey through the newspaper business with a detour into coffeehouse ownership — Colin Foote Burch came to some conclusions about religion, culture, spirituality, and the arts.

The Web gave him a platform to share them with like-minded people.

The ideas behind LiturgicalCredo.com were simple:

-Preserve good old things;

-Celebrate whatever is growing from those old things today;

-Give writers and artists who are young, or young in their careers, a place to publish their work.

Colin is a member of the Society of Professional Journalists, National Book Critics Circle, Committee of Concerned Journalists, Religion Newswriters Association, and American Society for Aesthetics.

LiturgicalCredo.com is a member of the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses.

So at the moment, you’re in the blog of a much larger online project: LiturgicalCredo.com.

LiturgicalCredo.com is an online journal devoted to essays, reviews, interviews and the arts.

Liturgical and sacramental traditions inform the shaping of the content. However, Colin has never been intensely interested in the details of liturgics.

Instead, he is interested in how traditional liturgical and sacramental worship shapes and influences the way individuals see and experience the world outside of the sanctuary.

Four expressions would be Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot; The Nobel Lecture on Literature by Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn; the essay “On Stories” from On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature by C.S. Lewis; and the poem “Love Calls Us to the Things of This World” from New and Collected Poems (Harvest Book) by Richard Wilbur.

These are not only aesthetic and intellectual expressions; they presuppose a sacramental and incarnational way of seeing the world and individual experience.

They are also fulfillments, however unwittingly, of Confucius’ exhortation to “enliven the ancient and also know what is new.”

Unsolicited submissions of writing, and JPEG digital photos of art work, are welcome. Send to colin@liturgicalcredo.com.

Meanwhile, this blog, liturgical.wordpress.com, leans more toward journalism. It covers news and trends, provides commentary, and points readers to features in LiturgicalCredo.com.