Another one bites the dust: Joshua Harris has abandoned his Christian faith, news that marks another blow to American conservative evangelicalism. Harris authored the best-selling I Kissed Dating Goodbye in his early twenties, unleashing unnecessary angst on a generation of evangelical teens. In his early thirties, he served as pastor of a Gaithersburg megachurch. He was also …
What the 2019 Book of Common Prayer Really Needs
The discussion about this book continues. I get the feeling I'm being shadowboxed in this discussion (and I'm sure others are too.) For the moment I'll pass along this blog's take on Cranmer and Lutheran influence. The Porcine is a relatively new Anglican blog and is very nice, I hope its writer keeps it up. …
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Does the 2019 BCP Need More Than One Rite?
The back and forth over the new ANCA 2019 Book of Common Prayer continues. This post delves into a question that, in a sense, puts together the whole debate over the theology of the Holy Communion and how it should be represented in the liturgy: do we really need the two rites we have in …
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The Problem of God, Evil, Cancer and My Nurse — The Evangelical Calvinist
It is just over nine years ago now that I was laid up in my hospital bed at OHSU in Portland, OR; I was being treated for an incurable, rare, and highly aggressive cancer known as Desmoplastic Small Round Cell Tumor sarcoma (DSRCT). The prognosis of this particular cancer is almost always imminent death (within […] …
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Remembering the Anti-Moon Luddites — Chet Aero Marine
https://www.youtube.com/embed/0QLCX-vVWok?version=3&rel=1&fs=1&autohide=2&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent Today, of course, is the fiftieth anniversary of Neil Armstrong’s first steps on the moon–“one giant leap for mankind,” to be sure. It was a great accomplishment and deserves to be remembered. It’s easy to forget, however, that at the time there were many–especially on the left–who believed that the whole enterprise was a …
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Otto Klink: From Atheism and Socialism to Assemblies of God Evangelist — Flower Pentecostal Heritage Center
This Week in AG History — July 18, 1931 By Ruthie Edgerly Oberg Originally published on AG News, 18 July 2019 Otto J. Klink (1888-1955) was a German-born American Pentecostal evangelist who traveled the United States in the 1930s and 1940s, preaching salvation through Jesus Christ and warning his listeners about the dangers of socialism, […] …
Why I Prefer Ad Orientem
Since the release of the ANCA 2019 Book of Common Prayer has open the floodgates for consideration of all kinds of controversial topics, it's time to consider one more: that of ad orientem, i.e., facing the altar during the Sacred Mysteries rather than the people. That's been the subject of a blog-to-blog volley between one …
Jimmy Buffett and the Miserable Offenders of the Book of Common Prayer
It's time to look at another bone that's been picked with the ANCA's 2019 Book of Common Prayer: the omission of the phrase "miserable offenders" to the General Confession for Morning and Evening Prayer. Let's start with the 2019 text: And now from the 1928 BCP: In addition to the modernization of the language, the …
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The “I” and the “We” of the Creed
The issuance of the ACNA 2019 Book of Common Prayer has brought back to the forefront many issues that have been "out there" for a long time. One of them is right up front in both the Apostles' and Nicene Creed: whether either or both should start with "I believe" or "We believe." This post …
Banning is Not Too Strong of a Word to Use for Quincy’s Action re the 2019 Book of Common Prayer
In my post on the ACNA's 2019 Book of Common Prayer, I made mention that the Diocese of Quincy had banned its use (as had Anglican Ink.) There has been some push back to that, from VirtueOnline and Robin Jordan, that this is not what they have done. Although I'll betray my Thomistic intellectual background …
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