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Give Us the Liturgy
Searching for Tradition I remember entering ministry life and quickly being confused and discouraged. This discouragement wasn’t as a result of the normal pressures of ministry, burdens to bear, problems to navigate, etc. It had to do with the church service. It seemed like everything was so emotional. Music would extend on and on. The…
Passive Obedience, Non-Jurors, and the Spiritual Autonomy of the Church
In morality the eternal rules of action have the same immutable universal truth with propositions in geometry. Neither of them depends on circumstances or accidents, being at all times and in all places, without limitation or exception, true. ‘Thou shalt not resist the supreme civil power’ is no less constant and unalterable a rule, for…
Retro Book Review: The Returns of Love, Part II
Today we continue examining The Returns of Love, a forgotten but noteworthy anonymous chronicle of homosexual temptation in Christian perspective. In Part I, I put this fifty-year-old work in historical context and introduced its unique authorial voice, which defies simplistic contemporary categorization. Through the literary device of “letters” to a best friend, we are quickly…
How Far Can You Stretch It?
In this case, “How far, etc…?” is being asked about the English Reformation, and its formularies. The reason it is being asked is to try and give shape to the concept of ‘Confessional Anglicanism’ – an idea which has been batted around a lot over the last five years. Unfortunately, much of the discussion has…
Has ACNA gone Lutheran on the Supper?
For Master David and brother Chris, in grateful memory of our many “Summits.” On January 29th, Archbishop Foley Beach (ACNA) welcomed +Jānis Vanags, Archbishop of Riga and Primate of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Latvia, for fraternal conversations at the Cathedral of the Holy Communion in Dallas. Though details from their meetings are yet…
J. C. Ryle on What Evangelical Religion Is (Part 4)
Reading further in Ryle’s Knots Untied, here is a fourth installment from Ryle on what evangelical religion is: ( d ) The fourth leading feature in Evangelical Religion is the high place which it assigns to the inward work of the Holy Spirit in the heart of man . Its theory is that the root and foundation of all…
Book Review: “Clothed With Salvation” and “A Priest Forever”
Shortly after I received a review copy of Clothed With Salvation, I left the volume on the table in our parish vestry, where it was seen by our Deacon. His face immediately lit up as he recognized the cover photo of the 1911 class of Nashotah House, his alma mater. When he read the author’s…
“I quarrel not the making of images”
the theology and practice of images in the Jacobean and Caroline Church of England “And that Images are things indifferent of themselves, is granted in the Homilies which are against the very Peril of Idolatry.”[1] The words are those of Archbishop Laud at his trial, when confronted with charges of ‘Popish idolatry’. Such charges…
Book Release: Clara’s Bees by Catharine Savage Brosman
We are excited to announce the release of Catharine Savage Brosman’s new collection of poems, Clara’s Bees, on our literary imprint, Little Gidding Press. In this expansive collection of poems, Catharine Savage Brosman surveys life in contemporary New York, wartime France, and medieval Europe. Along with imaginative scope, these poems attend to the particulars of…
Retro Book Review: The Returns of Love, Part I
In May 1971, the American Psychiatric Association was bracing for trouble. They were preparing to hold their annual convention in Washington, D. C. The previous year’s convention in San Francisco had been disrupted by a militant band of gay activists. Strategically planting themselves in breakout sessions on sexuality, the protestors had successfully turned the academic…
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