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Festivals and Fasts: Ember Days in September
The Church being always in need of manful men who are impressed with a due sense of what it means to be ordained to the ministry of bishops, priests, and deacons, 18th-century English layman Robert Nelson leads us devotionally in his Companion for the Festivals and Fasts of the Church of England. Ember Days in…
The Anti- Syndrome
The “Anti- Syndrome” is one of the ongoing pathologies of the Continuing Anglican Movement. There is quite a bit of positive advertising out there on church websites, but when you actually get to St. Francis-in-the-Fens, what one finds is that this is often a cover for the same old anti-TEC, anti-liberal, anti-gay rhetoric that has…
The Unlikely King
An Exegetical and Theological Study of Judah and Joseph The story of Joseph, as commonly told, is the kind of story that resonates with a modern western audience. An ambitious, young boy who has dreams of grandeur overcomes the obstacles of jealous older brothers, slavery, and imprisonment to become the second most powerful man in…
The Magistrate and Religion [Commentary on Browne: Article XXXVII (1)]
Compared to many other commentators on the Articles, Browne takes a special interest in affirming what has traditionally been known as the magisterial cura religionis, or care of religion: It has been observed in a former Article, that the Jewish state may be considered in some respects as a model republic; and that, notwithstanding the…
Bearing Faithful Witness
Commandment 9 “When [the devil] lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies” (Jn 8:44).[1] “For this purpose I was born and for this purpose I have come into the world—to bear witness to the truth” (Jn 18:37). We live in an age oversaturated by…
An Interview with Dr. Matthew Barrett
This summer, noted systematic and historical theologian Dr. Matthew Barrett publicly announced his exit from the Southern Baptist Convention and his reception into the Anglican Church in North America. His exit elicited a firestorm of accusations as well as sympathetic well-wishes, revealing a rift within American Evangelicalism over the significance of history, liturgy, and authority…
Fellows, Comrades, and Brothers
Every news cycle brings a fresh reminder that I am a “fellow citizen” with men who don’t know me, who often would hate me if they did, and are nothing like me. The phrase “fellow citizen” reminds me of “comrades” in the USSR. Americans are not “fellows” in any genuine sense, just as the soviets…
Book Review: “Eternal in Love”
Eternal in Love: A Little Book about a Big God. By R. T. Mullins. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2024. 178 pp. $40 (hardcover), $25 (paper). Ryan Mullins’s Eternal in Love may be described as a “little book,” but it is anything but small in substance. It is short, yes. It is concise in its prose, certainly….
Adultery and Theft: Seizing God’s Gifts
Commandments Seven and Eight In my reflection on the sixth commandment, I noted that the two tables of the Decalogue follow the logic of a descending order of severity: having a false god and murder are the “capital vices” of man’s duty to his Maker and his neighbor, respectively. Of course, the commandments that follow…
A Church Equally Open and Closed
Christianity is a religion full of paradoxes—a fact Anglicans are keen to acknowledge. For instance, that the church is both open and closed. On the one hand, the church of Christ would seem to be open to all with very little needed to become a Christian. On the other hand, there is nothing more demanding…
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