Blue Book
A colloquial term referring to the compendium of triennial reports to the General Convention from commissions, committees, task forces, agencies, and boards.
La Iglesia Episcopal
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Glosario
Un diccionario episcopal de la Iglesia
Definiciones del glosario adaptadas de Diccionario Episcopal de la Iglesia, una referencia fácil de usar para los episcopales., editado por Don S. Armentrout y Robert Boak Slocum, cortesía de Church Publishing Incorporated, Nueva York, NY.
Blue Box
Also called mite boxes, these small, blue, cardboard boxes are used to collect funds for the United Thank Offering, originally a ministry of The Episcopal Church Women.
board / board of directors / board of trustees
Lowercase unless part of a proper name. The board of directors opted to hold its annual meeting online. The Alpine University Board of…
Bonhoeffer, Dietrich
A 20th-century German Lutheran pastor, theologian, and author who was hanged in 1945 because of his opposition to Hitler. Feast day: April 9.
Boniface
An eighth-century English missionary, archbishop, and martyr, known as the Apostle of Germany. Feast day: June 5.
Book of Common Prayer (BCP)
The Episcopal Church’s liturgical and devotional containing some, but not all, of the texts authorized by General Convention. See Episcopal Common Prayer, the church’s official liturgical website.
Book of Common Prayer, the
As with the Bible, lowercase “the” and title case Book of Common Prayer.
Book of Occasional Services
A collection of authorized optional services and texts for various occasions that do not appear in the BCP. «,Breck
book titles
Use quotation marks around book titles. Exceptions: the Bible and other holy books (Quran, Torah), the Book of Common Prayer, and reference…
books of the Bible
Do not abbreviate individual books of the Bible.