I haven't engaged Bobby Grow in a long time (for good reason) but he, in his encapsulation of Karl Barth, Thomas Torrence, Duns Scotus, William of Ockham et.al., makes the following statement: At a purely superficial level, does the reader see how what Barth and Torrance are doing sound a lot like the characteristics present …
Disregarding the False Dichotomy of Calvinism and Arminianism [Commentary on Browne: Article XVII]
In keeping with his earlier treatment of Article X and Article XVI, Browne holds that Article XVII is neither Calvinist nor Arminian, although, as mentioned previously, he suggests the Article allows for both positions: “It seems worthy of consideration, whether the Article was not designedly drawn up in guarded and general terms, on purpose to… …
Those Dreadful Evangelicals: My Response to “Methodists At 180 Feet Below: A Short Reflection On Showmanship”
Tyler Hummel's piece in the North American Anglican is one of those things that surfaces from time to time in the Anglican/Episcopal World. It has the feel of the Palm Beach Old Guard's worst nightmare: the dread of tasteless nouveaux riches making a statement and getting away with it. As someone who started out in …
Immigration is religion’s only hope — Unherd
When my father was going through the process of becoming an Elder in the United Methodist Church, he was required to take courses on Diversity, … Immigration is religion’s only hope
Charles Ramsay Preached using Cartoons; for 43 Years the Pentecostal Evangel was his Pulpit — Flower Pentecostal Heritage Center
Kicking Final/Unconditional Perseverance Out of Anglicanism
I'm not surprised that James Clark's piece on Final Perseverance and the Thirty-nine Articles [Commentary on Browne: Article XVI (2)] is a difficult of a business at it is. It is an issue that has been complicated by the passage of time, by the change in the way Protestant Christianity has come to look at …
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Ex Parte Milligan, Sam Ervin and the Governor of New Mexico
Now that New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham has suspended open firearm carry laws in certain places as a "public health emergency," the whole concept of the suspension of rights under our constitutional system comes up. One case that comes up regarding that is Ex Parte Milligan, which dates from the Civil War. During the …
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Jimmy Buffett Goes to Meet God
Yes, he does: Singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett, who popularized beach bum soft rock with the escapist Caribbean-flavored song “Margaritaville” and turned that celebration of loafing into a billion-dollar empire of restaurants, resorts and frozen concoctions, has died. He was 76. In the process of that famous song he showed a better grasp of responsibility than many …
Is There No End to This Madness? Anglicans and the Immaculate Conception
Recently the North American Anglican took up the issue (quite ably I might add) of the Immaculate Conception. This implies that there are Anglicans out there who actually believe that the Blessed Mother was in fact immaculately conceived, i.e., conceived without sin. As the NAA points out, the church's witness to this is not univocal, …
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Chasing That Elusive Creature Called “Catholicity” in Anglicanism
The controversy continues: One following the news in the Anglican Communion will know of the steady stream of persons, including clergy, who have moved to Roman Catholicism or to Eastern Orthodoxy. Fr. Alexander Wilgus thinks we have grossly misunderstood the phenomenon’s roots. The moves do not expose a weak self-understanding and feeble self-confidence in Anglicanism’s Protestant roots—traits …
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