The Twentieth Sunday after Trinity The Holy Scriptures have a lot to say about fools. The word “fool” or its relatives “foolish,” “foolishly,” and “fools” appear at least 188 times in the Authorized Version, excluding the Apocrypha. During this season of the year, the Daily Office lectionary highlights the importance of avoiding foolishness as…
All Saints’ Day For all the saints, who from their labors rest, Who Thee by faith before the world confessed, Thy Name, O Jesu, be forever blest. Alleluia! Allleluia! This holy day, as with every instance in which we worship, we join our voices “with Angels and Archangels, and with all the company of heaven,…
In late days a number of pieces responding to the various episcopal abuse crises in the ACNA have suggested that this is in part due to the ad hoc nature of the ACNA. Every diocese is really its own autonomous fiefdom of the bishop. This is not the historic Anglican way, and it makes it…
King of Kings: A Reformed Guide to Christian Government. By James Baird. Cape Coral, FL: Founders Press, 2025. 120 pp. $21.98 (hardcover). The effort to renew classical Protestant political thought has been ongoing for the past few years, with Stephen Wolfe’s The Case for Christian Nationalism serving as a major impetus for the publication of…
The Nineteenth Sunday after Trinity “O God, forasmuch as without thee we are not able to please thee, mercifully grant that thy Holy Spirit may in all things direct and rule our hearts, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.” (Collect of the Day) Come, Thou Fount of eve’y blessing, Tune my heart to sing Thy…
Recently, a clip went semi-viral in which Bp. Christopher Warner ordained his wife, Catherine Warner, to the office of the presbyterate. In the clip, as Bp. Warner read the oath of canonical obedience; his wife seemingly laughed through taking the due canonical vows. I will not speculate here on why she did so. Nevertheless, for…
Texts, Authority, and Development Readers of The North American Anglican tend by and large to be keenly aware of our communion’s identity as a church of the Reformation. Because of that, we share a great deal of theological history with our Puritan brothers. Church of England ministers, after all, were a major bloc of the…
The Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity O Lord, my God, when I in awesome wonder consider all the works thy hands hath made, I see the stars, I hear the mighty thunder, thy pow’r throughout the universe displayed; Then sings my soul, my Savior-God, to thee: How great thou art! How great thou art! Then sings…
The following excerpts are those cited in The North American Anglican’s Synopsis of Anglican Political Thought, arranged topically. It is hoped that the full force of the Anglican tradition on these topics will be better felt by reprinting the words of our forebears rather than merely referencing them. The Civil and Spiritual Realms “In this…
Forward in Faith North American Annual Assembly 2025 I am writing to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I write to you, children, because you know the Father. I write to you, fathers, because you know him who is from…