Last spring, as lockdown orders went out to American cities and states, many prominent Christian voices equated masking, social distancing, and …Dying Alone in 2021
Modern Pentecost’s Use of an Anglican’s Missionary Method
In this interesting article about Assemblies of God missionaries to Latin America Melvin and Lois Hodges, this observation: Melvin and Lois Hodges teamed with veteran missionary Ralph Williams, who practiced English missionary Roland Allen’s philosophy of indigenous principles. While ministering in Nicaragua, Hodges was given an opportunity to put into practice these principles, which Allen …
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John Shelby Spong Goes to Meet God
It's done, per the notice on the right. Rather than endure the accusation that he can no longer defend himself, I'll stick with stuff I've already posted, some of which goes back to the beginning of this website/blog. I'll start with John Shelby Spong, Surrender Monkey: John Shelby Spong, retired Episcopal Bishop of Newark, is …
The Jawbone of an Ass
This morning's devotional from St. Peter's Anglican Church in Memphis features the following morning scripture reading, part of which is reproduced below: 14 When he came to Lehi, the Philistines came shouting to meet him. Then the Spirit of the LORD rushed upon him, and the ropes that were on his arms became as flax …
Stand, Therefore
One of the reasons that the ACNA was founded—one for which I was eager to sign up after our church had been sold to a mosque—was so that the whole counsel of Scripture, God’s Holy Word, could be proclaimed and obeyed without apology and without anxious worry about getting in trouble over it. The post…Stand, …
Squaring the Circle of Anglican/Episcopal Ministry
At the end of Dante's Paradiso, in his vision of God, he says the following: Like a geometer wholly dedicatedto squaring the circle, both who cannot find,think as he may, the principle indicated--so did I study the supernal face.I yearned to to know just how our image mergesinto that circle, and how it then finds …
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Phillips an Early Translation? Hardly.
Robin Jordan makes an interesting statement about translations of the Bible into English: I have been reading J. B. Phillips’ translation of the Gospels into modern English. It is one of the earliest translations of the Gospels into the vernacular. The Gospels are the part of the Bible with which I am the most familiar. …
The Scriptural BCP: Reclaiming the textual tradition with technology
Christians love text. Inheriting the enthusiasm of their Jewish forebears for the written word, Christians have left a blazing trail of text in their wake at every turn: sermons, commentaries, philosophical treatises, and liturgical documentation all have their part in the library. Text is powerful because it comes with triple strengths. Text endures; writing our…The …
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He Called Them a Rock and Said They Belonged: Bill Atwood Saves the ACNA Chaplaincy
In the recent kerfuffle over which Anglican province has oversight over the ACNA's chaplaincy jurisdiction, Bishop Bill Atwood opined the following: Sorting through the history of the relations between the Anglican Church in North America and the Church of Nigeria, we have discovered that a Canonical action remained unaddressed from several years back. Both the …
Aquinas in Anglican Thought
Thomas Aquinas—known for centuries within the Roman Catholic Church as the “Angelic Doctor” and the “Universal Doctor,” among other titles—has received increased attention from Protestants in recent years. 8,691 more wordsAquinas in Anglican Thought
Positive Infinity 