According to the Article, celibacy—defined as “the state of not being married”[1]—is “not commanded by God’s Law” for “Bishops, Priests, and Deacons.” A number of commentators on the Articles have claimed this teaching is uncontroversial and that even the Church of Rome, which practices clerical celibacy, would grant as much: “This subject admits of the…
Violence, Young Men, and the Culture War When St. Dunstan’s Academy considered naming our program for high school graduates after Moses’s longtime apprentice and eventual successor, Joshua, we had some reservations. The book of Joshua is one of the most controversial in the Bible, thanks to a brutal conquest narrative that one could accurately, if…
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…
Knowing God. By J. I. Packer. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2023. 400 pp. $29.99 (hardcover). Thanks to the Colson Fellows Program, I read Knowing God by the late great Rev. Dr. J.I. Packer for the first time. I knew about Packer’s work, but never encountered it at a bookstore or had someone personally recommend it to…
The fact that “the one Oblation of Christ” is “once made” tells us that the Eucharist, whatever the precise nature of its sacrificial character may be, cannot be a sacrifice in exactly the same way that Christ’s death on the Cross was. Browne, appealing to the fathers, writes that “we find no certain reference to…
In The Pastoral Use of the Prayer Book by the Rt. Rev. William Paret (1826-1911), the once bishop of Maryland tells his young clergy and postulants they should be asking themselves this question: “How am I going to act, what am I going to do in the service and pastoral work which are before me?”[1]…
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…
Atonement, Justice, and Divine Hospitality We’ve been arguing about who’s in the lifeboat, when the atonement was about calming the whole storm. In other words, Christ’s atonement is about more than who gets in and out of heaven; it’s about the whole cosmos. These reflections came to me over the last few months as I…
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…
Abortion is the issue of our time. Children are being terminated in record numbers, and liberal news outlets, democrat institutions, and academia are fighting to promote the pro-abortion agenda. Conservative activists need to make their voices heard. Roe v. Wade: the Fallout Roe v. Wade extended privacy rights to abortion to the point of viability…