The most strange emotion I’ve ever felt in a church is something I’ve come to coin as “Spiritual Whiplash”—the feeling of being swept up in the grandeur, emotion, and beauty of a spiritual experience, and then immediately having that drained out of you by a sudden realization that the emotion was completely disconnected from reality….
One of the old saws when I was training for the ministry, was that Cranmer had the shape of the Communion service all wrong. This assertion was, of course, based on a 1945 book called The Shape of the Liturgy by an Anglican Benedictine called Gregory Dix. Leaving aside the fact that Dix rejected Cranmer’s…
Snyder: Scholastic Defense of Infant BaptismInfant Baptism: A Treatise in Defense of Infant Baptism, Written in the Scholastic Style – Part I Infant Baptism: A Treatise in Defense of Infant Baptism, Written in the Scholastic Style – Part II Infant Baptism: A Treatise in Defense of Infant Baptism, Written in the Scholastic Style – Part…
We have all had that unwelcome guest who didn’t quite fit in. On the surface, he or she comes off as awkward, bombastic, or just a little larger than life. We have also had those cases where, at times, the unwelcome guest positively surprises us. In many ways, the soul is that unwelcome guest. The…
“L’enfer, c’est les autres,” quipped Sartre. Christians disagree. Hell is to be alone, heaven to be with others in love. One might therefore expect Satanists, a contrary bunch, to disagree with the Christians as a matter of principle, and to seclude themselves in haughty isolation from the profanum vulgus. Such was the strategy of old-school…
Andrew and Isaac discuss the Sabbatarian themes in Lambeth 1888 Resolution 6. Got any suggestions or feedback? Let us know in the comments below!
Snyder: Scholastic Defense of Infant BaptismInfant Baptism: A Treatise in Defense of Infant Baptism, Written in the Scholastic Style – Part I Infant Baptism: A Treatise in Defense of Infant Baptism, Written in the Scholastic Style – Part II Infant Baptism: A Treatise in Defense of Infant Baptism, Written in the Scholastic Style – Part…
In this two-part article, I am offering a case study in how the Confirmation process can be used to advance the efforts of traditional Anglicans in helping what I am calling “suspicious evangelicals” deeper into the Anglican Way. In the first part, I introduced “Rick” (a composite of many of our parishioners) as the kind…
Article XI tells us “we are accounted righteous before God, only for the merit of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, by faith, and not for our own works or deservings.” To say we are “accounted” righteous indicates that the Article treats justification as forensic, meaning that in justification we are legally declared righteous as…
Editor’s note: this essay is based on a homily for Independence Day preached by the author at All Saints Anglican Church in San Antonio TX, a parish that uses the American 1928 Book of Common Prayer The role of individual Christians and of the Church in civil and political life is often a matter of…