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Convenient Forgetting and the Jerusalem Declaration
“Forgetting pain is convenient, remembering it; agonizing. But uncovering the truth is worth all the suffering.” ~Lewis Carroll Convenient forgetting. Over thirteen years have passed since the Jerusalem Declaration was released in 2008. At the time, I was a 28 year old priest, and the recipient of a young leader invitation to this pivotal conference….
Secular Stories Part 4: Aristotle or Nietzsche?
At the beginning of this series, I proposed that the first step toward understanding this “secular” age would be exploring just how we got here. The first major resource I’ve recommended for that task is the book After Virtue by Alasdair MacIntyre. Which Way: ARISTOTLE OR NIETZSCHE? Alasdair MacIntyre wrote After Virtue to convince his…
Catholicam Fidem: An Open Letter on the Consecration of Female Bishops in GAFCON
To the Primates and Bishops of the Holy Catholic Church in the Global Anglican Future Conference: Every Trinity Sunday, we confess that “Whosoever will be saved, before all things it is necessary that he hold the Catholic faith.” This faith has been passed down to us from our Fathers. It is the faith by which…
Secular Stories Part 3: The Problem with Social Sciences
At the beginning of this series, I proposed that the first step toward understanding this “secular” age would be exploring just how we got here. The first major resource I’ve recommended for that task is the book After Virtue by Alasdair MacIntyre. In After Virtue we’ve uncovered what MacIntyre calls “emotivism,” or the implicit ethics…
A Critique of Transubstantiation
Introduction In my freshman year of college, as a newly minted theology student, I began to think through the question of “Why do we reject Transubstantiation?” I was blessed to have a Systematics professor who assigned the Reformed Orthodox,[1] so, naturally, I picked up my copy of Francis Turretin’s Institutes and scoured the section on…
A Homily for Good Friday (Part 2)
Second Book of Homilies · Homily 13 · Part 2 A Homily for Good Friday, Concerning the Death and Passion of Our Saviour Jesus Christ The Second Homily Concerning the Death and Passion of our Saviour Christ That we may the better conceive the great mercy and goodness of our Saviour Christ in suffering death…
The Abolition of Man and the Need for Christian Humanism
“It would be no exaggeration to say that the more progress ‘humanity’ as an abstraction makes towards the mastery of nature, the more actual individual men tend to become slaves of this very conquest.” (Gabriel Marcel, Man Against Mass Society) Just before the first English lockdown began last year, I read Alan Jacobs’ book The…
Secular Stories Part 2: The Failed Enlightenment Project
We started this series with a discussion and acknowledgment of the problem of increasing “secularity” for Christians living in the modern West. The society and culture that the church occupies seem to keep drifting further from the Christian commitments that built Christendom. The same secular ideas and attitudes are appearing ever frequently within our churches…
The Theology Missing From the Vaccine Debates
As Covid-19 vaccines are being rolled out to service Americans, along comes a hefty dose of shame, mockery, and manipulation. Just take for example a sampling of recent attempts to shame those ‘white evangelicals’ who are endangering the rest of us—at least that is the implication. All of these arguments intend to portray the opposition…
Tract XI – On The Church (Part II)
The Church is the House of God The Church is not only the Body and Bride of Christ: it’s also the House of God and the place where God lives![1] Throughout the Bible, God builds His house (or Temple), the place where He intends to live with man. In the beginning, God’s house was in…
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