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The Taxman
Feast of St. Matthew St. Matthew’s calling is a beautiful display of God’s love for each human being, right where He finds us. St. Matthew is introduced to us as a passing thought at first glance. We learn that Jesus is passing from his healing a man (inflaming the scribes by forgiving his sins) when…
Festivals and Fasts: Saint Matthew (September 21)
This year, the feast of St. Matthew falls on a Sunday, so the Fourteenth Sunday After Trinity is also St. Matthew’s Day. May Robert Nelson’s devotional guidance in his Companion for the Festivals and Fasts of the Church of England bless you this weekend, to turn your eyes upon the mercy of Jesus Christ for…
Pro Imaginibus Sacris
A Defense of Sacred Images and Their Veneration When I first began this “trilogy” of articles on images I was sitting in my local coffee shop. I now find myself beginning to write this final installment in a local brewery which was converted from an old church. While there aren’t as many logos surrounding me…
Festivals and Fasts: Ember Days in September
The Church being always in need of manful men who are impressed with a due sense of what it means to be ordained to the ministry of bishops, priests, and deacons, 18th-century English layman Robert Nelson leads us devotionally in his Companion for the Festivals and Fasts of the Church of England. Ember Days in…
The Anti- Syndrome
The “Anti- Syndrome” is one of the ongoing pathologies of the Continuing Anglican Movement. There is quite a bit of positive advertising out there on church websites, but when you actually get to St. Francis-in-the-Fens, what one finds is that this is often a cover for the same old anti-TEC, anti-liberal, anti-gay rhetoric that has…
The Unlikely King
An Exegetical and Theological Study of Judah and Joseph The story of Joseph, as commonly told, is the kind of story that resonates with a modern western audience. An ambitious, young boy who has dreams of grandeur overcomes the obstacles of jealous older brothers, slavery, and imprisonment to become the second most powerful man in…
The Magistrate and Religion [Commentary on Browne: Article XXXVII (1)]
Compared to many other commentators on the Articles, Browne takes a special interest in affirming what has traditionally been known as the magisterial cura religionis, or care of religion: It has been observed in a former Article, that the Jewish state may be considered in some respects as a model republic; and that, notwithstanding the…
Bearing Faithful Witness
Commandment 9 “When [the devil] lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies” (Jn 8:44).[1] “For this purpose I was born and for this purpose I have come into the world—to bear witness to the truth” (Jn 18:37). We live in an age oversaturated by…
An Interview with Dr. Matthew Barrett
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…
Fellows, Comrades, and Brothers
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…
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