A Walk in the Ancient Western LectionaryA Walk in the Ancient Western Lectionary: An Introduction Come Thou Long Expected Jesus – The First Sunday in Advent Lo! He Comes with Clouds Descending – Second Sunday in Advent On Jordan’s Bank the Baptist Cries – Third Sunday in Advent O Come, O Come, Emmanuel – The…
The Genius of Anglicanism Although Anglicanism has long had ‘Low’ and ‘High’ Church parties, there was, until the late-19th century an underlying theology that united them. The ‘High’ and ‘Low’ concepts of churchmanship were very largely a product of which elements of the English Reformed tradition they chose to emphasize. In terms of the way…
The Anglican Tradition, St. Mary the Virgin, and the prudential divide between pious opinion and requisite belief A recent article at the North American Anglican regarding St. Mary the Virgin’s place in the Anglican tradition blessed the reader with a palpable love of the Book of Common Prayer and a rarely seen expertise in the…
A Walk in the Ancient Western LectionaryA Walk in the Ancient Western Lectionary: An Introduction Come Thou Long Expected Jesus – The First Sunday in Advent Lo! He Comes with Clouds Descending – Second Sunday in Advent On Jordan’s Bank the Baptist Cries – Third Sunday in Advent O Come, O Come, Emmanuel – The…
What Accreditation Really Says About Your School What you wear says something about you. So does who you associate with. When I was headmaster of a classical preparatory school, I noticed some students wearing Abercrombie & Fitch outside of school hours. I challenged their choice. A&F, I told them, doesn’t just sell clothes—it sells a…
A Walk in the Ancient Western LectionaryA Walk in the Ancient Western Lectionary: An Introduction Come Thou Long Expected Jesus – The First Sunday in Advent Lo! He Comes with Clouds Descending – Second Sunday in Advent On Jordan’s Bank the Baptist Cries – Third Sunday in Advent O Come, O Come, Emmanuel – The…
In some senses, this essay is the fruit of a biblical theology that stretches back a couple of decades. Studying biblical typology predates my love of theology, liturgy, or really anything other than Christ himself. In another sense though, this is my effort to remove Marian ideas from the exclusive sphere of Roman Catholic…
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 Walk in the Ancient Western LectionaryA Walk in the Ancient Western Lectionary: An Introduction Come Thou Long Expected Jesus – The First Sunday in Advent Lo! He Comes with Clouds Descending – Second Sunday in Advent On Jordan’s Bank the Baptist Cries – Third Sunday in Advent O Come, O Come, Emmanuel – The…
It would probably scare some folks half to death to hear that the commonest form of high churchmanship in the mid-1800s was described as a robust Protestantism. This was because it took seriously the Bible, the Prayer Book, and the Articles of Religion, and had, historically, grown out of churchly reaction against rigid Calvinism which…