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Book Review: “Eternal in Love”
Eternal in Love: A Little Book about a Big God. By R. T. Mullins. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2024. 178 pp. $40 (hardcover), $25 (paper). Ryan Mullins’s Eternal in Love may be described as a “little book,” but it is anything but small in substance. It is short, yes. It is concise in its prose, certainly….
Adultery and Theft: Seizing God’s Gifts
Commandments Seven and Eight In my reflection on the sixth commandment, I noted that the two tables of the Decalogue follow the logic of a descending order of severity: having a false god and murder are the “capital vices” of man’s duty to his Maker and his neighbor, respectively. Of course, the commandments that follow…
A Church Equally Open and Closed
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…
Book Review: Sing Unto the Lord (Part 2)
Sing Unto the Lord: A Liturgical Hymnal. Anglican Music Publishing, 2023. 942 pp. $29.95 (hardcover). In my previous article, I reviewed the service music of Sing Unto the Lord, the 2023 hymnal intended for contemporary language ACNA worship.[1] At the end of 6900 words about the 159 pages of service music, I asked the question:…
The Stripping or Reverence Due to the Altar?
Before any law was given, before any liturgy was written, the light of nature taught man that God is to be worshipped, and that such worship requires a holy place. This instinct, grounded in natural religion, is one of the pillars upon which the Catholic tradition builds its sacramental and liturgical theology. Natural religion, as…
To Love That Word: St. Bartholomew’s Day
Let us now our voices raise,Wake the day with gladness;God Himself to joy and praiseTurns our human sadness;Joy that martyrs won their crown,Opened heav’ns bright portal,When they laid the mortal downFor the life immortal. Let us praise God for mortal men who boldly burned out bright in faith. This day we commemorate St. Bartholomew, to…
Festivals and Fasts: Saint Bartholomew (August 24)
Ahead of tomorrow’s anniversary of the coming of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer into statutory force in the Church of England, on the feast of St. Bartholomew, I have thought it good to bring before the public eye what 18th-century English layman Robert Nelson wrote about the feast in his Companion for the Festivals…
Do No Murder: Love of Neighbor and the Love of God
Commandment 6 The second table of the Decalogue concerns man’s duty towards his neighbor, and by the time we have arrived at the sixth commandment, we find the very foundation of that duty expressed negatively as “do not murder.” Before reflecting on contemporary Christian reflections on the commandment, this is a good juncture at which…
Bound Together
The fractured state of North American Anglicanism is a barrier to faithfully witnessing the faith once delivered in our increasingly ungodly continent. The continent is gradually repaganizing and following the old gods, who are no gods at all. Perhaps it is odd to quote Ben Franklin. Still, his words apply to the state of affairs…
The Three Childhoods of Life as Mystagogy
The Lord gives the grace to experience three childhoods in our life. They represent a mystical ascent Adolescence: Awakening In the beginning, you opened your eyes, and there was light. The teachers say that light reaching us in the night sky arrives late from very long ago, impossibly far away. Your infant sight unveiled, and…
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