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Traditionalism is Not Enough
FRAMING THE PROBLEM It has been said before that the only two constants in life are taxes and death, but since the inception of the ACNA, a third has come around: the publication of articles calling for a moratorium on women’s ordination to the priesthood. The majority of these articles are simply retreads of the…
A Synopsis of Anglican Political Thought
Introduction Very often, I (Jesse) will meet Christians, even ordained ministers, who will say “I don’t really like politics,” and I get what they mean. The world of modern politics is dirty—however wicked or vicious your political opponent seems to be, it’s easy enough to identify some unseemly characters or policies operating on the opposite…
Primary Sources in Anglican Political Thought
The following excerpts are those cited in The North American Anglican’s Synopsis of Anglican Political Thought, arranged topically. It is hoped that the full force of the Anglican tradition on these topics will be better felt by reprinting the words of our forebears rather than merely referencing them. The Civil and Spiritual Realms “In this…
Let’s Talk Politics
Christians should talk about politics. The prejudice many Christians have against political disagreement and debate isn’t healthy. Honesty requires laying all political tactics aside. Telling Christians they shouldn’t “talk about politics” is itself a political tactic and a political statement. We must make that clear to ourselves. Every political tactic, such as this one, has…
Honor Virtue Or Lose the Young Men
Young Men are The Future Young men are the future of the Anglican Church in North America. They are the resource, if well stewarded, by which the church will be replenished through the Spirit. Young men will also, if either neglected or ignored, opt out of ordained ministry altogether in favor of pursuits and careers…
Festivals and Fasts: Saint Bartholomew (August 24)
Ahead of tomorrow’s anniversary of the coming of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer into statutory force in the Church of England, on the feast of St. Bartholomew, I have thought it good to bring before the public eye what 18th-century English layman Robert Nelson wrote about the feast in his Companion for the Festivals…
The Reformed Character of the Scottish Liturgy
Many Christians, whether they count themselves Reformed or not, speak of the Scottish Episcopalians as a less Reformed wing of the Anglican world: the puritans judge the Reformed credentials of Anglicanism by its conformity to puritanism, and the advanced Anglo-Catholics wish to ditch Reformed Protestantism altogether. Because of this mistake made by people on both…
A History of Alternative Views of Hell in the Church of England
Introduction A serious study of what was taught in centuries past will always reveal a greater diversity of thought than is popularly claimed, for the past continually falls victim to generalizations. Sometimes the majority view is innocently mistaken to be the only one, other times minority views are ignored for the purpose of giving an…
An Anglican Layman Looks at Women’s Ordination
The Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) has been wrestling with the issue of women’s ordination for the past decade. The worldwide Anglican Communion has been actively wrestling with this issue for five decades. For a variety of complex reasons, some we will explore in this essay, the church has failed to resolve this issue….
A Case for the 1662 Book of Common Prayer
I was chatting with a priest-friend about the 1662: International Edition of the Book of Common Prayer (BCP), and he playfully remarked to me that I must be the only Anglo-Catholic priest in America that likes the 1662IE. He classified it as having mostly a Reformed-Calvinist following. I don’t think this is necessarily the case,…
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