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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.
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…
Review: Officium Ad Fontes
Officium Ad Fontes: The Daily Office with Original Sources. By Gregory Graybill. Translated by Gregory Graybill. Colorado Springs, Col.: Anglican House Publishers, 2026. 273 pp. $24.95 (paper). Saepius Officio might be the last publicly recognized Anglican contribution in Latin. Such is a massive shift from the days of the 1662 Ordinal that required bishops to…
Via Media in Pigment
Gerlach Flicke’s Cranmer as an Image of the Reformed Catholicism of the English Church~ A Collect for Archbishop Thomas Cranmer, a Reformer of the Church O God, by your grace your servant Archbishop Thomas Cranmer, kindled by the flame of your love, became a burning and shining light in your Church, turning…
Exalted for You
A Homily on the 2nd Article of the Apostles’ Creed In this installment of our series on Catechetical Foundations, we will finish up the 2nd Article of the Apostles’ Creed, the section of the Creed on our Lord Jesus Christ. The previous two entries discussed the “State of Humiliation” in our Lord’s work. That is,…
Book Review: “Why Christians Should Be Leftists”
Why Christians Should Be Leftists. By Phil Christman. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2025. 229 pp. $23.99 (hardcover). With some books, if you’re in the right state of mind—receptive and able to get outside your conditioning—you might just find yourself coming around to the author’s perspective, or at least become a more sympathetic reader. With this book,…
Fail the Fires
Fail the fires, fail the light And fail the stars upon the night, In darkness be the Earth unmade, Till even ashen embers fade; Still here I stand and here I stay, Through frigid night and bitter day, And though we spin on shadow’s lathe, And though we struggle in our faith, I will not…