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Book Review: “The Common Service”
The Common Service: The English Liturgy of the Church of the Augsburg Confession. By James D. Heiser. Malone, TX: Repristination Press, 2022. 323 pp. $39.99 (hardcover). Acknowledging that liturgical study is not the favorite subject of everyone, why would an Anglican read this book? Why should an Anglican care about the Lutheran liturgy? The answer…
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Contrition
No hesitation, Lord, Do I, in sinning, feel In thought or deed or word. Keep back, I pray, my sin’s reward, Nor let me hesitation feel In repenting afterward.
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The Comfort of Thy Grace – The Fourth Sunday in Lent
I need thee every hour, Most gracious Lord; No tender voice like thine Can peace afford. There is perhaps no more outstanding example of grace than being a guest at a dinner. The table is set and prepared by another. The bounty and delightful dishes are bought and cooked at another’s expense, time, and labor….
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The Mountains of St. Gabriel
I see no shrouded silhouette or trace Of solid might—thick haze conceals The mountains of St. Gabriel again As if they never were; all mist, These memories of paths perfumed with sage And broom, of hills where Our Lord’s candles rise From dagger mounds and where the scrub jays screech– Their flight like blue sparks…
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The Abiding Blessing of Sabbath Rest
The Book of Exodus tells the story of God’s deliverance of His people out of bondage in Egypt and God’s deliverance of His law to those people through the mediatorship of Moses. These twin themes in Exodus are closely bound together showing that Israel was not only saved from a life of slavery but were…
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The Surrender of Catechesis to Technology
Introduction On March 11, 1997, Neil Postman delivered a lecture to an Illinois community college entitled “The Surrender of Culture to Technology,” in which he presented seven questions that should be asked when confronted with new technologies. Public debate at the time centered around the installation of public-school computers with access to the emerging “world…
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“Lightning” the Way – The Third Sunday of Lent
Rock of ages, cleft for me, let me hide myself in thee; let the water and the blood from thy wounded side which flowed, be of sin the double cure, cleanse me from its guilt and power. A strange thing happened Saturday evening. My gaze was fixed upon the stars and my back was warmed…
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Almost Atonement & The Wood Between the Worlds
Some years ago, self-deprecating comedian Martin Short joked with talk show host Conan O’Brien that his family would write the word “Almost” on his tombstone.[1] “Almost” because he had, in his mind, never quite fully made it in Hollywood with a smash hit. While it’s hardly true of Short, that’s the line that kept ringing…
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“Reformation Anglicanism”: A Critique
Among the many voices calling for Anglican realignment, one of the more resounding is that of the Reformation Anglicans. Reformation Anglicans aspire to anchor the Anglican tradition in its Reformation roots and principles, and, in doing so, resolve the current tensions and paradoxes involved in the question of Anglican identity, as well as provide a…
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Beating the Bounds of Anglican Eucharistic Doctrine [Commentary on Browne: Article XXVIII]
Much like baptism, the Eucharist is too capacious to address comprehensively in a commentary. For this reason, Browne says that a “brief view” of the subject “is all that is here possible.” In discussing how Browne delimits the Church of England’s doctrine as it pertains to this Article, it should first be noted that the…