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Holy Words, Human Words

“See with what large letters I am writing to you with my own hand,” (Galatians 6:11) For the last two thousand years and for the rest of human history, people will read these words of St. Paul. Here we have, forever canonized in the Holy Scriptures themselves, the mysterious fact that the Bible was written…

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Come Thou Long Expected Jesus – The First Sunday in Advent

This is the first in a series of reflections based upon a seasonal hymn, the collect of the day, and the ancient Western Sunday lectionary, as reflected in the 1662 Book of Common Prayer.  Come, thou long-expected Jesus,  Born to set thy people free;  From our fear and sins release us,  Let us find our…

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Eighteenth-Century Anglican Worship: Music

This entry is part 2 of 3 in the series Robinson: 18th-Century Anglican Worship

Part 2: Music Anglicanism in the 1700s had two distinct musical traditions, which, for the sake of convenience I will call “cathedral” and “parish.” In using those terms, it must be remembered that the cathedral style of worship was also maintained by other places having a choral foundation including the Chapel Royal, the Royal Peculiars…

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Book Review: Re-Formed Catholic Anglicanism

Re-Formed Catholic Anglicanism. Edited by Charles F. Camlin, Charles D. Erlandson, and Joshua L. Harper. Anglican Way Institute, 2024. 478 pp. $29.99 (paper). In a recent review of the Nashotah House Press edition of Bishop A. P. Forbes’s Explanation of the Thirty-Nine Articles, Gerald McDermott describes Forbes as “reformed catholic.” A critical response to this…

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Eighteenth-Century Anglican Worship: The Liturgy

This entry is part 1 of 3 in the series Robinson: 18th-Century Anglican Worship

Part 1: The Liturgy In the eighteenth century, liturgy meant the 1662 Book of Common Prayer. The colonies used the BCP of the parent church, and Ireland’s 1666 edition was very little different from the main text. The American BCP, of course, does not appear until nearly the end of the century, and differed only…

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Vengeance is Mine: Wrestling with the Violence of God in the Old Testament (Part II)

This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series Lovell: Vengeance is Mine

In the previous article, I presented the problem of the divine sanction of violence in the Old Testament given the fact that Israel’s God repeatedly states that He hates violence. I then provided two arguments that serve to contextualize God’s commands or His seeming approval of violent acts committed by His people. First, violence occurs…

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Trump’s Victory is a Wake-Up Call to the Church of England

Donald Trump’s re-election victory stunned elites on both sides of the Atlantic and has unmasked the disconnect between the ideologies of Church of England Bishops and the daily lives of the people they serve. The reach of American media, combined with the global significance of its political outcomes, ensures that American political developments help shape political, media,…

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Christ The Redeemer: Men’s Retreat 2024 with Calvin Robinson

Courage is something we are missing in our culture today. We need courage to stand up for what’s right, whether it be in our places of employment or even in our families and church communities, the virtue of courage has fallen on hard times in Christianity today. In the Anglican world, we often do not…

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