Jackson Waters is a postulant in the Diocese of the Mid-Atlantic and the Ambassador for Recruitment at Trinity Anglican Seminary. His work has appeared at The American Conservative, Providence Magazine, American Reformer, The North American Anglican, Center for Baptist Leadership, Juicy Ecumenism and Theopolis Institute. He Substacks @Jackmat100
Continuity and Fragmentation in Anglican Tradition The church that Elizabeth I inherited was in total disarray. Her father was fond of great change when it gave him authority, and very incremental change when it did not seem in his personal interest. His son saw upheaval as necessary for the good of the church as well…
The Shining Human Creature and Made Like the Maker. By Thomas Traherne. Modernized by Colin Redemer. The Davenant Institute, 2023. 133 pp and 140 pp. $17.95 each (paper). Thomas Traherne has one of those names that just sounds like he was born as an Oxford poet in a quaint, misty English village. In this case, that…
This summer, noted systematic and historical theologian Dr. Matthew Barrett publicly announced his exit from the Southern Baptist Convention and his reception into the Anglican Church in North America. His exit elicited a firestorm of accusations as well as sympathetic well-wishes, revealing a rift within American Evangelicalism over the significance of history, liturgy, and authority…
For anyone united to Christ, there is a new creation: the old [world] has gone; a new [world] has already begun.[1] And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world…
“For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it? Lest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him, Saying, This man began to build, and was…