Searching for Tradition I remember entering ministry life and quickly being confused and discouraged. This discouragement wasn’t as a result of the normal pressures of ministry, burdens to bear, problems to navigate, etc. It had to do with the church service. It seemed like everything was so emotional. Music would extend on and on. The…
Browne: Exposition of the 39 ArticlesExposition of the Thirty-nine Articles – Introduction Exposition of the Thirty-nine Articles – Article I (Part 1) Exposition of the Thirty-nine Articles – Article I (Part 2) Exposition of the Thirty-nine Articles – Article II Exposition of the Thirty-nine Articles – Article III Exposition of the Thirty-nine Articles – Article…
In morality the eternal rules of action have the same immutable universal truth with propositions in geometry. Neither of them depends on circumstances or accidents, being at all times and in all places, without limitation or exception, true. ‘Thou shalt not resist the supreme civil power’ is no less constant and unalterable a rule, for…
Today The North American Anglican is pleased to publish four new reviews of Fr. Charles Erlandson’s Take This Cup: How God Transforms Suffering into Glory and Joy, written by Joseph Laughon, Dcn. Ron Offringa, Canon Shannon Ramey, and Alexander Whitaker. While a review of this book was already published here back in August 2020, these…
Take This Cup: How God Transforms Suffering into Glory and Joy. By Charles Erlandson. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2020. 216 pp. $46 (cloth); $26 (paper). A deadly global pandemic is probably as propitious a moment as any for a fresh perspective on suffering, given that no one will remain untouched by the offending virus….
Take This Cup: How God Transforms Suffering into Glory and Joy. By Charles Erlandson. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2020. 216 pp. $46 (cloth); $26 (paper). “But Jesus said unto them, Ye know not what ye ask: can ye drink of the cup that I drink of? and be baptized with the baptism that I…
Take This Cup: How God Transforms Suffering into Glory and Joy. By Charles Erlandson. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2020. 216 pp. $46 (cloth); $26 (paper). Fr. Charles Erlandson’s Take This Cup takes upon itself the daunting task of answering how God uses suffering for our joy and his glory. Fr. Erlandson divides his work…
Today we continue examining The Returns of Love, a forgotten but noteworthy anonymous chronicle of homosexual temptation in Christian perspective. In Part I, I put this fifty-year-old work in historical context and introduced its unique authorial voice, which defies simplistic contemporary categorization. Through the literary device of “letters” to a best friend, we are quickly…
In this case, “How far, etc…?” is being asked about the English Reformation, and its formularies. The reason it is being asked is to try and give shape to the concept of ‘Confessional Anglicanism’ – an idea which has been batted around a lot over the last five years. Unfortunately, much of the discussion has…
For Master David and brother Chris, in grateful memory of our many “Summits.” On January 29th, Archbishop Foley Beach (ACNA) welcomed +Jānis Vanags, Archbishop of Riga and Primate of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Latvia, for fraternal conversations at the Cathedral of the Holy Communion in Dallas. Though details from their meetings are yet…