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Articulated As An Authority: Anglicans, ACNA, and the Articles
The Articles of Religion are an authority articulating the doctrine of the Church of England as well as that of those who belong to the Global Anglican Communion. The Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans, better known as GAFCON and now as the Global Anglican Communion, outlined in the Jerusalem Statement a succinct summary of faith: We,…
Perchance to Dream: Equipping the Next Generation
And if he have not before disposed of his goods, let him then be admonished to make his Will, and to declare his debts, what he oweth, and what is owing unto him; for the better discharging of his conscience, and the quietness of his Executors. But men should often be put in remembrance to…
A Time to Weep, A Time to Mourn
Lent begins ashless in the classic prayerbooks. The trend for well over a century has been to bring back the ashes, which I do not personally object to. However, I wish we moved towards placing ashes upon the crown of our heads instead of marking a cross on our foreheads, as was common in…
Rooted in Rubrics
Do the red, read the black. It’s the common refrain of long-time Anglicans who remember a time when the Book of Common Prayer’s rubrics were printed in red and the prayers in black. This long-lost tradition makes it easier for clergy and laity to discern what is prayed and what acts are required. However, contemporary…
A Walk in the Ancient Western Lectionary: An Introduction
The one-year Sunday and holy day lectionary educated, catechized, and marked the days year by year and century by century for the Western Church. When the traditional one-year lectionary was replaced during mid-20th-century prayer book revisionism, we lost the pattern of catechesis and marking of time that formed and molded Western Christianity for well over…
A Method Amidst the Madness – Inspiration for Living the Inspired Life
In order to rebuild and restore what is lost, we must provide a firm and steady foundation upon the rock of Christ in a world gone mad. We cannot build new institutions, nor trust old ones, unless the men and women are working from a solid discipline and desire to become saintly and not merely saints-in-name-only….
Crafted by Catechesis: The Anglican Formularies Reading Plan
Pursuing Christ through the Prayerbook Life: A Catechetical Resource North American Anglicanism has long faced an identity crisis. Anglicanism has reinvented itself into three streams, old catholicism, Presbyterianism with prayerbooks, etc. Trendy soundbites are the extent of the theology of clergy and laity alike, typically ranging from an ambiguous and muddy “via media” between Rome…
Bearing the Image, Reflecting the Son
“I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.” (Romans 12:1 ESV). St. Paul is the theologian of the body. How we use our the bodies our Maker gives us reflects our faith in Him…
The Ark’s Advent – An Adventful Allegory
God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds. Hebrews 1:1 KJV One of the great, if not…
Jordan’s Shores
The Sunday Next before Advent Stir up, we beseech thee, O Lord, the wills of thy faithful people; that they, plenteously bringing forth the fruit of good works, may of thee be plenteously rewarded; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Jesus shall reign where’er the sun Does his successive journeys run; His kingdom stretch from…