Years ago, Reginald Fuller, who was a visiting professor here, said, “the thing I love about the worship at Sewanee is that it is sort of Prayer Book Catholic; rich, full, and musical, but not precious.” That sums it up well!
So, what is it like to worship here? Sewanee has evolved into what a number of historians over the last century and a half have called “Sewanee High Church.” The “High Church/Low Church” nomenclature is really about ecclesiology and your view of the Church, not about the liturgy and whether or not you use incense. At the School of Theology, we are in a particular sort of niche: we are not low church in the way that it is often defined liturgically, often meaning “minimalist” with little or no attention to ritual matters beyond the text. But neither are we 19th-century romantics constantly looking for ways to embroider our rites with the embellishments of yesteryear.
