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…
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…