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Shepherd of the Sheep – The Second Sunday after Easter
The King of love my shepherd is, whose goodness faileth never; I nothing lack if I am his, and he is mine for ever. Shepherds and shepherding are constant themes throughout the Scriptures, beginning in Genesis (46:32-34, 49:24) and proceeding throughout the New Testament. Joseph’s brothers are shepherds along with his father, Jacob. Moses becomes…
A History of Alternative Views of Hell in the Church of England
Introduction A serious study of what was taught in centuries past will always reveal a greater diversity of thought than is popularly claimed, for the past continually falls victim to generalizations. Sometimes the majority view is innocently mistaken to be the only one, other times minority views are ignored for the purpose of giving an…
An Occasion for Comment
The Draft Book of Occasional Offices The ACNA Book of Common Prayer (2019) Resource page posted the draft version of the ACNA Book of Occasional Offices (2026) for downloading, review, and comments. According to the webpage, comments and suggestions can be sent: “Before April 5 (Easter Day) 2026, please email the Rev’d Jacob Hootman at…
No Quarter – The First Sunday after Easter
Christ the Lord is risen today, Alleluia! Sons of men and angels say: Alleluia! Raise your joys and triumphs high; Alleluia! Sing ye heav’ns, and earth reply: Alleluia! Alleluia, today is Easter! Welcome back as the Church experiences not a gap of seven days from Easter morn, but instead we return to Easter Day. Let…
An Anglican Layman Looks at Women’s Ordination
The Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) has been wrestling with the issue of women’s ordination for the past decade. The worldwide Anglican Communion has been actively wrestling with this issue for five decades. For a variety of complex reasons, some we will explore in this essay, the church has failed to resolve this issue….
The Making of a Murderer
The Role of Natural Revelation in the Story of Cain and Abel It is difficult to overstate the profundity of the story of Cain and Abel that is told in the space of just a few verses in Genesis 4. With a strict economy of detail, we are told a story that is incredibly dark…
The Logic Underpinning the Eucharist, Continued [Commentary on Browne: Article XXIX]
Little space is typically devoted to expositing Article XXIX because, as Browne and many other commentators have noted, “if the last Article be true, this most probably follows on it.” If “by faith we are enabled to receive Him,” then “the wicked,” who are “void of a lively faith,” will of course be unable to…
Meat and Potatoes
Rightly Handling the Word of Truth in Its Internal Variance of Texture & Taste Your words were found, and I ate them, And your words became to me a joy and the delight of my heart, For I am called by your name, O Lord, God of hosts. (Jeremiah 15:16) There is a Scripturally warranted…
Hymn of Joy – Easter Day
Alleluia, alleluia! Hearts to heaven and voices raise: sing to God a hymn of gladness, sing to God a hymn of praise. He, who on the cross a victim, for the world’s salvation bled, Jesus Christ, the King of glory, now is risen from the dead. Hear the roar of the earth quaking and the…
Questions – Easter Even (Holy Saturday)
The incarnation of Jesus raises many questions. Who is this man? Who is the Son of Man? Why did the God-man die? And perhaps most commonly on Holy Saturday, where was Jesus on the evening of Good Friday until Easter morn? Were you there when they crucified my Lord? Were you there when they crucified…
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