An Invitation to the Liberal Arts: The What and Why of Classical Christian Higher Education. By Benjamin P. Myers. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2025. 122 pp. $34 (hardcover), $19 (paper). One of the defining characteristics of the classical Christian school movement up to this point has been its focus on primary and secondary education (i.e.,…
We are no longer at ease here, we who’ve been disturbed by the sprung rhythm of Coinherence – this Child in us, and we in Him. Like so many wise men, we mount the saints’ stair with fickle pace and laggardly gifts in tow, trekking our way up from the House of Bread. But not…
Feasts for the Kingdom: Sermons for the Liturgical Year. By Khaled Anatolios. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2023. 318 pp. $19.99 (paper). In Feasts for the Kingdom, Khaled Anatolios offers the Church a gift that is increasingly rare: sustained, theologically rich, and genuinely liturgical preaching. Across forty-one homilies ordered to the feasts of the church year, Anatolios…
Rehberg: Catechetical HomiliesFundamentals and Foundations: Introducing the Apostles’ Creed Our Father of Infinite Power, Wisdom, and Goodness The Anointed Savior, Son, and Lord Joined in Birth, Life, and Suffering Humbled for Us Exalted for YouOn the 2nd Article of the Apostles’ Creed In our last entry we began to look into the second Article of…
Pursuing Christ through the Prayerbook LifePursuing Christ through the Prayerbook Life A Method Amidst the Madness – Inspiration for Living the Inspired Life Rooted in Rubrics A Time to Weep, A Time to MournResetting, Reforming, Renewing in Epiphany Over the past year, I have taken up the 1662 Book of Common Prayer’s daily office lectionary.1 It has a simplistic pattern…
The Lectionary of 1662, Adapted and Supplemented: The Collects, Psalms, Epistles, Gospels for the Holy Eucharist adapted from the Books of Common Prayer of 1662, 1962, and 2019, with a Supplement of Old Testament Lessons. Edited by Benjamin von Bredow & Brandon Hughes. Prayer Book Society of Canada, 2025. 433 pp. $25 (hardcover). Between the…
Anglicanism and the Deuterocanonical Books Anglicans read the Deuterocanonical books because they teach us about life, faith, and Christian manners. Article VI of the 39 Articles makes it clear that these books are for instruction, not for establishing doctrine. This reflects the early Church’s approach, where the Fathers tolerated different opinions about these books while…
Rehberg: Catechetical HomiliesFundamentals and Foundations: Introducing the Apostles’ Creed Our Father of Infinite Power, Wisdom, and Goodness The Anointed Savior, Son, and Lord Joined in Birth, Life, and Suffering Humbled for Us Exalted for YouA Homily on the Second Article of the Apostles’ Creed As we’ve been looking at our catechetical foundations in this series,…
Just what scope there is for “Christian communism” within the Anglican tradition ought to be clear from the text of this Article. As Browne explains, the Article rejects “the belief that all property is unlawful, and that goods in a Christian society must be common.” Given that the absence of private property is one of…
A Study of the Evangelical Decline of the Burial Rites in the English and American Prayer Books The writer of Ecclesiastes tells us there is “a time for every purpose under the heaven,” which includes “a time to be born, and a time to die… a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a…