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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.
Crafted by Catechesis: The Anglican Formularies Reading Plan
Pursuing Christ through the Prayerbook Life: A Catechetical Resource North American Anglicanism has long faced an identity crisis. Anglicanism has reinvented itself into three streams, old catholicism, Presbyterianism with prayerbooks, etc. Trendy soundbites are the extent of the theology of clergy and laity alike, typically ranging from an ambiguous and muddy “via media” between Rome…
Our Father of Infinite Power, Wisdom, and Goodness
Article 1 of the Apostles’ Creed “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” This is, of course the first verse of the first book of the Bible: Genesis. The Scriptures don’t begin by explaining God or making a case to prove his existence. They don’t begin with describing his attributes or his…
Advent, ACNA, and the Anger of God
He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, and they will bring offerings in righteousness to the LORD. Malachi 3:3 (ESV) During the season of Advent we meditate upon the coming of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ….
Stand in Silence
~ Stand in silence, O thou man: Be mute before the mystery. Thy mouth betrays thine ignorance; Let angels be a tongue for thee. Stand in silence, O thou man: Let holy terror be thy praise, For Wisdom’s Word is spoken here; So learn the number of thy days. Kneel in silence, O thou man,…
Bearing the Image, Reflecting the Son
“I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.” (Romans 12:1 ESV). St. Paul is the theologian of the body. How we use our the bodies our Maker gives us reflects our faith in Him…
Fundamentals and Foundations: Introducing the Apostles’ Creed
I usually begin Trinitytide, the 23 to 28 weeks between Trinity Sunday and Advent, with the reminder that this long season is focused on our growth. The Prayer Book Society of Canada puts it this way: “Trinity season is devoted to spiritual catechesis, putting before us the essential themes of life in Christ through doctrinal…
The Ark’s Advent – An Adventful Allegory
God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds. Hebrews 1:1 KJV One of the great, if not…
Not a Merry Ding-Dong
To use an English working-class phrase, there is a bit of “ding-dong” between Christians this month. Christmas carol services are not usually flashpoints of controversy. They are meant to be unifying, nostalgic, and a soft reassertion of a story that once held the English together. Yet last weekend in London, a carol service organized by…
Of the Right Use of the Church Part I
An Homily of the Right Use of the Church or Temple of God and of the Reverence Due Unto the Same The First Part Where there appeareth at these days a great slackness and negligence of a great sort of people in resorting to the church, there to serve God their Heavenly Father according to…
A Fruitful Exhortation to the Reading and Knowledge of Holy Scripture (Part 1)
The First Book of Homilies Homily I UNTO a Christian man there can be nothing either more necessary or profitable than the knowledge of holy Scripture; forasmuch as in it is contained God’s true word, setting forth his glory and also man’s duty. And there is no truth nor doctrine necessary for our justification and…