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On Anglican Documents and the Declaration of Principles of the Free Church of England
Last weekend, the Morning Service at Good Shepherd Anglican Church, Waynesboro, VA was according to the 1789 Book of Common Prayer as we wished to use the liturgy. I took the trouble to look over Mant and Wilson’s “Exposition of the Rubrics of the Book of Common Prayer” as I sought to educate myself on…
A Sermon of the Misery of All Mankind (Part 2)
First Book of Homilies · Homily 2 · Part 2 A Sermon of the Misery of All Mankind and of His Condemnation to Death Everlasting by His Own Sin The Second Part of the Sermon of the Misery of Man. FORASMUCH as the true knowledge of ourselves is very necessary to come to the right knowledge…
The Methods and Effects of the Oxford Movement on Missions in Victorian England
In 1838, Edward B. Pusey delivered two sermons before the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (SPG) in which he strongly argued that it was the Church as an institution that had been ordained by God to convert the heathen rather than individuals as members of missionary societies.[1] It was not enough, Pusey argued,…
An Invitation
The following excerpt from Sarah Reardon’s Home Songs is published with permission from Wipf and Stock Publishers. To find the one who leaves the ninety-nine Is not to follow in your father’s line, But is to enter narrow doors and dine On bread and drink which ninety-nine decline.
The Roman Catholic Ordinariate, Newman, and the Question of Doctrinal Development
Thomas Cranmer and the Shape of the Reformation Thomas Cranmer was executed at Oxford in 1556. Archbishop of Canterbury. Principal architect of the English Reformation and the Book of Common Prayer. He stood at the center of a genuine rupture, and he knew it. Under harsh imprisonment he signed recantations. Then he withdrew them publicly…
Confessing Our Profession: The Catholic Creeds
[T]hat if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. — Romans 10:9-10 (KJV) We confess the faith that…
Book Review: “Give Us This Day Devotionals, Vol. 8 (Hebrews-Revelation)”
Give Us This Day Devotionals, Volume 8: Hebrews-Revelation. By Charles Erlandson. Resource Publications, 2025. 370 pp. $38.38 (paperback), $57.06 (hardcover). It has been many years since I regularly used a written daily devotional as part of my prayer or bible reading disciplines. In fact, my default position has been to be suspicious of written daily…
Not an Oversight, an Overseer: The Episcopacy
We confess the godly historic Episcopate as an inherent part of the apostolic faith and practice, and therefore as integral to the fullness and unity of the Body of Christ. Point 3, The Fundamental Declarations The episcopacy is the ministry of overseeing the Church. It is a ministry found within Holy Scriptures and evolved from…
A Sermon of the Misery of All Mankind (Part 1)
First Book of Homilies · Homily 2 · Part 1 A Sermon of the Misery of All Mankind and of His Condemnation to Death Everlasting by His Own Sin THE Holy Ghost, in writing the holy Scripture, is in nothing more diligent than to pull down man’s vainglory and pride; which of all vices is…
The Spirit in and of the Church
A Homily on the 3rd Article of the Apostles’ Creed Today we will finish up our series on the Apostles’ Creed with the Third Article, the section of the Creed on the Holy Spirit and the Church, before moving on to the Ten Commandments in the next installment. Here is that Third Article of the…
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