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For A Distinctive Anglican Way
In The Pastoral Use of the Prayer Book by the Rt. Rev. William Paret (1826-1911), the once bishop of Maryland tells his young clergy and postulants they should be asking themselves this question: “How am I going to act, what am I going to do in the service and pastoral work which are before me?”[1]…
Atonement is Cosmic Reconciliation
Atonement, Justice, and Divine Hospitality We’ve been arguing about who’s in the lifeboat, when the atonement was about calming the whole storm. In other words, Christ’s atonement is about more than who gets in and out of heaven; it’s about the whole cosmos. These reflections came to me over the last few months as I…
Protecting the Rights of the Unborn
Abortion is the issue of our time. Children are being terminated in record numbers, and liberal news outlets, democrat institutions, and academia are fighting to promote the pro-abortion agenda. Conservative activists need to make their voices heard. Roe v. Wade: the Fallout Roe v. Wade extended privacy rights to abortion to the point of viability…
A Practical Shift on Receiving in Both Kinds [Commentary on Browne: Article XXX]
Browne identifies the practice of communing using only the bread and withholding the wine from the laity as another outgrowth of Roman Catholic eucharistic doctrine: “The doctrine of transubstantiation naturally led to the belief that, inasmuch as the elements were wholly changed into the substance of Christ, therefore whole Christ, Body and Blood, was contained…
Walk the Fields – Rogation Sunday
O Jesus, crowned with all renown, Since thou the earth hast trod, Thou reignest, and by thee come down Henceforth the gifts of God. Thine is the health and thine the wealth That in our halls abound, And thine the beauty and the joy With which the years are crowned. St. Paul and St. James…
The True Israel
Identifying the People of God in the Theology of Paul Who are the people of God? While it is very clear in the Old Testament beginning in Genesis 12 that it is Abraham’s family that is chosen by God to become a great nation and a blessing to the nations, the picture becomes a little…
The Comfortable Words
Introduction One of the most cherished parts of the Anglican Liturgy is the comfortable words. These words reflect a theological and pastoral concern to communicate assurance and comfort to believers. Though unique to Anglican Liturgy, the comfortable words are in keeping with a deep importance of comfort in scripture. This scriptural theme was important to…
A Second Look at Lying and the Ethics of the New Christian Right
Part 2 of 2 Rather than give an exhaustive account of lying, it will suffice for present purposes to arrive at a basic understanding of what a lie really is. In the process it will become apparent that while all lies are deceptions, not all deceptions are lies. Once the true definition of a lie…
Book Review: “The Hours”
The Hours: Poems. By Matthew J. Andrews. Anaheim, CA: Solum Literary Press, 2025. 87 pp. $16.11 (paper). The Hours is a new collection of poetry by Matthew J. Andrews, one that uses dense and cryptic imagery to examine the Christian experience of our broken humanity. Structurally, as the name foreshadows, the volume is divided into…
A Second Look at Lying and the Ethics of the New Christian Right
Part 1 of 2 Not long ago, Ben Crenshaw—Contributing Editor at American Reformer—suggested in an article that deception is sometimes commendable. The claim was incidental to the larger point of the article in question, but Carl Trueman—Professor of Biblical & Religious Studies at Grove City College—took issue with it in an article of his own….
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