This Article upholds the logic of Article XX—in which the normative principle of worship is affirmed—and extends it. As the church “hath power to decree rites or ceremonies,” so “every particular or national Church hath authority to ordain, change, and abolish, ceremonies or rites of the Church, ordained only by man’s authority.” Hence, “It is…
The Fifth Sunday after Trinity Trekking in the heat is a beast. It is slow trodding and akin to wrestling an opponent towards the end of the match. Your body is bruised and aching, your sweat no longer cools your body, it just gets in the way of your eyesight, and yet the challenger still…
Hear, Read, Mark, Learn and Inwardly Digest: Preaching for the People of God. By Justin D. Clemente. Self-Published, 2025. 89 pp. $9.99 (paper). No one can doubt that the sermon or homily is an important part of Sunday worship. Some traditions emphasize it more, and some emphasize it less. In our own Anglican tradition, we…
The nature of excommunication is one of those topics about which there seems to be little room for dispute in the Anglican tradition. The Article states that those worthy of excommunication are to be cut off by “the Church” and, upon repentance, received into the Church by “a Judge,” both of which phrases are widely…
The Fourth Sunday after Trinity There comes a time in every man’s life when the road and path traversed become confusing. You have been journeying in the same direction and heading towards the same goal, but something is different. At first, you think it is the terrain, a change in circumstances. Then you begin to…
The Missing Gap in Classical Christian Education The world of classical education is fond of C. S. Lewis. And rightly so. Without using the term “classical education,” his Abolition of Man clearly shows the hollowness at the core of modern, progressive schools; classical Christian educators have been providing a better alternative for many decades. His…
This is a place I love to sit. These planks play host to something new. The knots and lines and pools of gold… We thought it strange, when it was built. That knot looks like a screaming face. The day he cut the oak tree down I knew that he must die. “A god lives…
Versing the Mystery. By Christopher Villiers. Waterloo, ON: Arouca Press, 2024. 202 pp. $19.95 (paperback). Poetry has been long believed to hold mystical, even sacred powers. Up until the modern period, it has historically held more reverence and cultural sway than prose. As James Matthew Wilson asserts in The Fortunes of Poetry in an Age…
We are thrilled to announce a significant new chapter for The North American Anglican! In recent years, American Reformer has proven itself to be a steadfast defender of orthodox, biblical Christianity across the American Protestant landscape. As The North American Anglican brings the distinct insights of the Anglican context to the efforts of Christian renewal…
The King of love my Shepherd is, Whose goodness falleth never; I nothing lack if I am His, And He is mine for ever. Journeying the wilderness of Western post-modernity is not for the faint of heart. There is danger along the way. The river of despair lies ahead. The rising mountains of falsity hinder…