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…
A House for the Word: A Treatise on Public Worship from Hooker’s Laws. By Richard Hooker. Modernized and edited by Patrick Timmis and Brad Littlejohn. Davenant Press, 2025. 188pp. Paperback, $12.95. About a month ago I was pleasantly surprised to receive a message from the Davenant Institute that another volume in their project to modernize…
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…
As we have seen, there are multiple Articles that were written to address points of controversy between the Church of England and the Church of Rome, only for the latter to shift toward the tenor and practice of the former in recent years (see comments on Articles XXIV, XXX, and XXXIV). In the case of…
The Shining Human Creature and Made Like the Maker. By Thomas Traherne. Modernized by Colin Redemer. The Davenant Institute, 2023. 133 pp and 140 pp. $17.95 each (paper). Thomas Traherne has one of those names that just sounds like he was born as an Oxford poet in a quaint, misty English village. In this case, that…
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…
Should Anglicans Join the Celebration? On July 31, 2025, the Roman Catholic Church declared John Henry Newman a Doctor of the Church. For Catholics, the honor is fitting. Newman, a towering nineteenth-century theologian, shaped modern Catholic thought, strengthened its understanding of authority, and provided a robust intellectual foundation. For Anglicans, the question is more complex….
(With Apologies to Jack) Many of us are familiar with the famous quip by C.S. Lewis about reading old books: It is a good rule, after reading a new book, never allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between. If that is too much for you, you should read…
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…
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…