http://northernplainsanglican.com/2023/05/28/may-his-soul-be-bound-up/ This tragedy--a serviceman being killed right at the end of World War II trying to come home--is on par with my uncle, who was killed while training to go overseas in the Army Air Force.
We Are Already Defeated — Stand Firm
No more is it about your personal conscience. Are you not bound in obedience to your bishop? And if you are, how is he ok with you saying any of these things? 28 more words We Are Already Defeated — Stand Firm It's worth recalling that much of the rot in the Episcopal Church that finally …
Anglicans Shouldn’t Be Building New Colleges — The North American Anglican
“For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it? Lest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him, Saying, This man began to build, and was… Anglicans …
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Traffic Report — Northern Plains Anglican
It is a procession that’s been on the road ever since Jesus’ resurrection. Traffic Report Tim Fountain is an old friend going back to the original Stand Firm in Faith days. He has a special needs child, which quite a few of my present church people deal with. We both come from places where things …
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Book Review: “Reformation Anglicanism: Essays on Edwardian Evangelicalism” — The North American Anglican
Reformation Anglicanism: Essays on Edwardian Evangelicalism. Edited by Mark Earngey and Stephen Tong. London, UK: The Latimer Trust, 2023. 260 pp. $11.50 (paper). In some ways, and for some people, the Edwardian period of the English Reformation is fertile ground for speculations about what could have been. 1,144 more words Book Review: “Reformation Anglicanism: Essays on …
If You Want to Bring the Nation Back to God, Start with Morning and Evening Prayer
Today is the anniversary of the landing at Cape Henry. It's an event especially feted by the Christian Broadcasting Network and Regent University, as can be seen in this video: https://youtu.be/NQ6Mf_kF2fM Five years after the landing, William Strachey produced the document For The Colony in Virginia BRITANNIA, Laws Divine , Moral and Martial, etc.. There's …
The Filioque and Its Current Status [Commentary on Browne: Article V] — The North American Anglican (with my comments)
Consult any pre-21st century English or American Prayer Book and you will find in the Nicene Creed that the Holy Spirit proceeds “from the Father and the Son.”[1] The phrase “and the Son” is a translation of the Latin term Filioque, with the opening words of Article V—“The Holy Ghost, proceeding from the Father and… The …
Maybe an Anglican Boarding School Isn’t Such a Good Idea After All
One of the ideas that's making the rounds these days in the Anglican/Episcopal world is an idea of an Anglican boarding school for boys. Probably the most ambitious of these projects is St. Dunstan's, which is in the planning stage. Before too many Anglicans part company with their hard-earned (or inherited) dollars for this project, …
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Susanna Wesley, Parental Catechist — The North American Anglican
William Beveridge in his Private Thoughts on Religion, and Church Catechism Explained wrote, “This, therefore, being the great cause of that shameful decay of the Christian religion that is so visible among us, we can never expect to see it repaired, unless the great duty of catechising be revived….”[1] He adds that parents play the… Susanna …
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The death of Christian privilege
In a cemetery near the fishing village of Mousehole, in Cornwall, stands a memorial stone to Dolly Pentreath. Erected in 1860, it commemorates her …The death of Christian privilege
Positive Infinity 