I usually begin Trinitytide, the 23 to 28 weeks between Trinity Sunday and Advent, with the reminder that this long season is focused on our growth. The Prayer Book Society of Canada puts it this way: “Trinity season is devoted to spiritual catechesis, putting before us the essential themes of life in Christ through doctrinal…
God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds. Hebrews 1:1 KJV One of the great, if not…
To use an English working-class phrase, there is a bit of “ding-dong” between Christians this month. Christmas carol services are not usually flashpoints of controversy. They are meant to be unifying, nostalgic, and a soft reassertion of a story that once held the English together. Yet last weekend in London, a carol service organized by…
An Homily of the Right Use of the Church or Temple of God and of the Reverence Due Unto the Same The First Part Where there appeareth at these days a great slackness and negligence of a great sort of people in resorting to the church, there to serve God their Heavenly Father according to…
The First Book of Homilies Homily I UNTO a Christian man there can be nothing either more necessary or profitable than the knowledge of holy Scripture; forasmuch as in it is contained God’s true word, setting forth his glory and also man’s duty. And there is no truth nor doctrine necessary for our justification and…
12-8-25 Dear Mr. Tidwell, I must begin by confessing that I was not familiar with you or your beliefs on polygamy until recently, when some controversy arose on social media over the fact that you, already married with children, took a second wife not too long ago and now have a child from her. If…
Evangelical Theological Aesthetics: A Theology of Beauty and Perception. By Ryan Currie. Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2025. 300 pp. $45 (paper). The Roman Catholic theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905–1988) once said of contemporary Protestant theology that it “nowhere deals with the beautiful as a theological category” (4). Although Balthasar’s statement rang true for many…
FRAMING THE PROBLEM It has been said before that the only two constants in life are taxes and death, but since the inception of the ACNA, a third has come around: the publication of articles calling for a moratorium on women’s ordination to the priesthood. The majority of these articles are simply retreads of the…
The Sunday Next before Advent Stir up, we beseech thee, O Lord, the wills of thy faithful people; that they, plenteously bringing forth the fruit of good works, may of thee be plenteously rewarded; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Jesus shall reign where’er the sun Does his successive journeys run; His kingdom stretch from…
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…