One of the more interesting items on this blog (some don't think there are any, but I digress) is the McPherson-Bogard Debate, between one of the most important figures in early modern Pentecost and one of the most illustrious representatives of fundamental Baptist belief and practice. The fact that the Pentecostals were represented by a …
Standfirm Rides Again
It's actually been "out there" for almost two months, but I just found out and it's worth repeating: Stand Firm in Faith, the once and future premier conservative Anglican blog, is back with Matt Kennedy, his snow-shoveling wife Anne Carlson Kennedy, and Tim Fountain standing firm in faith against People Who Shovel Something Else. Honestly …
We Africans are not children in need of western enlightenment — Ad Orientem
Friends, please hear me, we Africans are not afraid of our sisters and brothers who identify as lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, transgendered, questioning, or queer. We love them and we hope the best for them. But we know of no compelling arguments for forsaking our church’s understanding of Scripture and the teachings of the church universal. […] …
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Three Anglicanisms — Ad Orientem
There are now, in truth, three Anglicanisms: These are, (1) the First Millennium Consensus, or Anglo-Catholicism, now mostly found in Continuing Churches, (2) Liberalism, now found in the Lambeth Canterbury Communion, and (3) Evangelicalism, mostly found in those bodies adhering to GAFCON. The Elizabethan Settlement has for all practical purposes collapsed and has ceased to […] …
They Used to Say Same Thing About the Anglican/Episcopal Blogosphere, Too
The Catholic Archbishop of Dublin unloads on his own church's social media movement/blogosphere: Catholic keyboard warriors who "spend all day attacking and responding" on social media in the belief that they are "defending the integrity of Church teaching" have been sharply criticised by Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin. For those of us who have been …
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The “unEnglish and Unmanly” Part of (now) St. John Henry Newman
With the canonisation of Anglicanism's most famous convert to Roman Catholicism, there's been a dust-up about Newman's sexual orientation, especially by the dreadful James Martin, SJ (whose own mendacity about his own celibacy helped get him into the Society of Jesus.) A long time ago this site posted an academic paper by David Hilliard about …
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Baby Blue: Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door
She is indeed: Mary Ailes died today. She was one of the pioneers of Anglican blogging who was in the thick of things from Truro in Virginia, in the early days of CANA. To me it feels like yesterday but it is quickly fading into the past. I met her in person once and she …
The Prayer of Humble Access — Anglican Pastor
The Prayer of Humble Access is a traditional part of the Anglican service of Holy Communion. I recently found out how beloved the Prayer of Humble Access is to so many Anglicans when I posted about it on Twitter. I posted what I thought was a slightly humorous tweet poll which indicated some questions I… via …
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The Persecution of Christians is Nothing New
Another interesting passage from Trevor Gervase Jalland's The Church and the Papacy: It is, of course,unnecessary to point out that the Roman Catholic Communion as it is to-day, and possibly as it has been from the beginning, is bound up with the belief that the Roman see, as the see of St. Peter the Apostle and of his …
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Richard Hooker on the Incarnation — Ad Orientem
To Christ we ascribe both working of wonders and suffering of pains, we use concerning him speeches as well of humility as of divine glory, but the one we apply unto that nature which he took of the Virgin Mary, the other to that which was in the beginning. (V, 53, i) If therefore it […] …
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Positive Infinity 