Jared Henderson is a writer based in Austin, TX. He holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Connecticut.
This spring, my wife and I began the process of joining the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (LCMS), the largest confessional Lutheran body in the United States. My story is not particularly interesting to those who do not know me well, and it suffices to say that our move was primarily motivated by local circumstances and my…
The psalmist employs many metaphors to describe a life of faithfulness and righteousness, but there is something special about the metaphor of walking in the psalms. A primary image for the life of faith — which we read as the life of Christian faith — is walking along a path. The psalmists begs to God:…
Baptists and the Christian Tradition: Toward an Evangelical Baptist Catholicity. Editors Matthew Y. Emerson, Christopher W. Morgan, R. Lucas Stamps. Nashville, TN: B&H Academic, 2020. 400 pp. A number of Protestant traditions are engaged in renewal projects. The North American Anglican is a publication dedicated to the renewal of Anglican tradition, and organizations such as…
The Prayer Book tradition prescribes no particular Advent fast — that is, there is no prescription for Anglicans to engage in an extended period of fasting during the season of Advent. In this way, Advent is distinct from Lent — the 1662 and 1928 give the ‘Forty Days of Lent’ (in the 2019 Book of…
William Love has resigned from his position as the Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Albany. Love’s future is uncertain — his resignation is effective February 1, 2021, and he has not said what he intends to do after he leaves his position. Some have speculated that he will remain as a parishioner in The…
Within American Christianity, and especially within American evangelicalism, we have seen a rise of interest in liturgy. Taking a quick look at InterVarsity Press’s site, one finds recent titles such as The Liturgy of Creation, Liturgy of the Ordinary, and The Liturgy of Politics. At Conciliar Post, Wesley Walker has compiled a list of articles…
Editor’s Note: While The Foolishness of God is published by The North American Anglican Press, this review was submitted independently, and it was not solicited by the journal. J. Brandon Meeks, The Foolishness of God: Reclaiming Preaching in the Anglican Tradition. Omaha, NB: The North American Anglican, 2020. Vii+207 pp. Paperback $14.99. Near the end…
I wish to start by wholeheartedly expressing my appreciation that the writers of The North American Anglican have sought to offer a new series of tracts for the 21st century, and I commend the author of Tract I, Fr. Charles Erlandson, for attempting a definition of Anglicanism. Global Anglicanism is in need of a definition,…
