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This journal upholds classical Anglican theology, rooted in Scripture, the 39 Articles, and the Book of Common Prayer. Committed to social, moral, and theological orthodoxy, we explore our rich tradition to strengthen Christ’s Church with timeless wisdom, piety, and truth.
GAFCON’s Error
Scripture and Ministerial Tradition We have a problem in the orthodox Anglican world. Over at AnglicanInk, George Congar critiqued Jay Thomas’s article pointing out the lamentable inconsistency of the communion over women’s ordination. There is much to be said on this issue. For instance, Anglicans need to be active in developing a rich, sacramental framework…
An Anglican Need to Repent
Global Anglicans have been congratulating themselves ever since their 2023 Ash Wednesday Statement declaring they would no longer recognize the leadership of the Archbishop of Canterbury because of the Church of England’s decision to bless same-sex couples. Their recent Abujah Affirmation gives its leaders a high-five for obeying the Bible’s “plain and canonical sense, respectful…
Book Review: “He Descended into Hell”
He Descended into Hell: An English Reformation Controversy. By Charles F. Camlin. Cambridge, UK: James Clarke & Co., 2025. 252 pp. $120 (hardback), $37.50 (paper). Article III of the Thirty-nine Articles affirms the doctrine of Christ’s descent into hell as an element of catholic theology, historically shared by Christians the world over. However, it is…
The Eucharist in John 6
A Canonical Theology There have been some legitimate fruits to the ecumenical turn that was experienced in Christian theology during the 20th century. This includes, at the very least, an increased capacity to engage and appreciate theological reflections stemming from other traditions. Such an example that is especially relevant for apostolic and sacramental Christians (such…
First things First – Fundamentally Anglican
We confess the canonical books of the Old and New Testaments to be the inspired Word of God, containing all things necessary for salvation, and to be the final authority and unchangeable standard for Christian faith and life. – Point 1, Fundamental Declarations, ACNA As noted in my prior installment, at the coming together of…
Prefacing the Present
The ACNA Fundamental Declarations begin with a preamble. It prefaces the present by rooting the Declarations firmly in the past. These roots are not dead roots, but are firmly digging deep into the spring of life. This spring bubbles eternally and enlivens the tree that draws up its life-giving waters, so the Church grows until…
A World of Aesthetes
The Aesthete. By M. A. Colestock. Independently published, 2026. 427 pp. $28.99 (hardcover), $15.99 (paper). I imagine most people, if asked, would say they have never met an aesthete before. An aesthete is defined as “one having or affecting sensitivity to the beautiful especially in art,” and given that most people today do not deliberately…
Doctoring Doctrine: Back to the Fundamentals
Living within the Anglican Church of North America (ACNA) can be quite confusing. Diocese to diocese (even parish to parish within the same metro area) often results in the jarring reality that doctrine differs across the province. This is magnified globally across Anglicanism. It becomes quite wearisome and can edge wary parishioners and clergy alike…
Materiam Superabat Opus
First Steps in the Revival of Beauty The task of calling artists to make and pursue beauty is a call many have made. I do not here wish to negate that call nor make such a call seem shallow, but I do wish to further it by giving some more direct action and reasoning to…
A Fruitful Exhortation to the Reading and Knowledge of Holy Scripture (Part 2)
The First Book of Homilies, Homily 1: A Fruitful Exhortation to the Reading and Knowledge of Holy Scripture (Part 2) The Second Part of the Sermon of the Holy Scripture. IN the first part of this Sermon, which exhorteth to the knowledge of holy Scripture, was declared wherefore the knowledge of the same is necessary…