Cole Simmons teaches high school literature and rhetoric at Redeemer Classical School, in McGaheysville VA. He earned his doctorate from the Institute of Philosophic Studies at the University of Dallas. He is a member of the Anglican Church in North America and worships at The Church of the Lamb, in Penn Laird VA.
No Other Foundation: Essays on Women’s Ordination in the Anglican Tradition, 2nd Edition. Edited by Brandon LeTourneau and Ben Jefferies. Prolego Press. 463 pp. $25 (hardback), $14.99 (paper). Prolego Press has issued a second edition of the work No Other Foundation, edited by Brandon LeTourneau and Ben Jefferies – both priests coming out of Nashotah…
Christians should talk about politics. The prejudice many Christians have against political disagreement and debate isn’t healthy. Honesty requires laying all political tactics aside. Telling Christians they shouldn’t “talk about politics” is itself a political tactic and a political statement. We must make that clear to ourselves. Every political tactic, such as this one, has…
Every news cycle brings a fresh reminder that I am a “fellow citizen” with men who don’t know me, who often would hate me if they did, and are nothing like me. The phrase “fellow citizen” reminds me of “comrades” in the USSR. Americans are not “fellows” in any genuine sense, just as the soviets…
Christianity is a religion full of paradoxes—a fact Anglicans are keen to acknowledge. For instance, that the church is both open and closed. On the one hand, the church of Christ would seem to be open to all with very little needed to become a Christian. On the other hand, there is nothing more demanding…
Conclusion of The Debate This is the final (planned) essay in my series on William G. Witt’s book promoting the ordination of women, Icons of Christ. In the first essay, I showed how those wishing to maintain a “male only” priesthood could read the book of Genesis, not necessarily as a book requiring the exclusion…
The Debate So Far: Witt has produced two responses to my two essays and promised more. However, he has not responded to several decisive arguments. First: I claim that Genesis 3:16 means that it is not a sin to exclude women from the priesthood, just as it is not a sin for women to refuse…
Witt Responds Witt responded to my first essay in this series. In response to earlier criticisms of his book, Witt announced that there were “key chapters” untouched by those criticisms. Now, in response to my first essay, he has announced I didn’t address his “key point.” A recent reviewer claims to have read this essay:…
In his tome Icons of Christ, William G Witt compiles a great list of arguments against Christian priestesses and sets out to refute them all. Reviewing this book has recently become considerably easier, because Witt has declared what he believes is the most important part of his book. He did this because another reviewer for…
Seeking a Definition Whether times are tumultuous or calm, Christians must ask what it means to be a Christian. In tumultuous times such as these, the question certainly feels more urgent. The assertion that Christians do not have to hold to traditional moral standards is a tacit redefinition of what it means to be a…