Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
In the midst of the many things--good and bad--that transpire these days, one thing crept up on me that I wasn't expecting and regret to see--the passing of the website commonprayer.org. It was vanished completely since the first of the year. As a person who was raised on and still uses the 1928 Book of …
https://northamanglican.com/the-logic-underpinning-the-eucharist-continued-commentary-on-browne-article-xxix/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-logic-underpinning-the-eucharist-continued-commentary-on-browne-article-xxix If I had to rate the Articles, this one would be at the bottom. Why did this church insist on going against the wisdom of "Good Queen Bess" and insist that the wicked don't receive the Eucharist? This is one of many reasons why I find Anglican Eucharistic theology overcomplicated and, in this case, …
https://northamanglican.com/book-review-what-still-divides-us/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=book-review-what-still-divides-us As someone who has been "there and back again" on this divide (and there are few of us who have made that journey) I think I could add something to the discussion, so here goes: In the first chapter, “How are we Saved?” Maloney points out significant differences in how Protestants and Roman Catholics …
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https://northamanglican.com/reformed-methodist/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=reformed-methodist The "ties that bind" American Christianity are a complex web, and this is a good example of that. It's no secret that the Wesleyan tradition--like John and Charles Wesley themselves--came out of Anglicanism, and had things worked out a little differently the Episcopal Church itself could have stayed together with North American Wesleyanism. But …
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As Lent fast approaches, I've seen some pushback on X from Anglicans on "why do we do the imposition of ashes on Ash Wednesday as Anglicans?" It's a fair question, and the culprits in the Anglican-Episcopal world are the "more Catholic than the Pope" people, the Anglo-Catholics. In the middle of their preparation for the …
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https://northamanglican.com/old-high-church-planting/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=old-high-church-planting Ah, the Old High Church... The popularity of the Old High Church--both in the Colonial period and in the years immediately after World War II--is something that flies in the face of a lot of Evangelical church growth orthodoxy. How is it possible to grow a church with such as specific form of worship? …
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Most of you who have followed this blog know that I was able to do two series at my local church (the North Cleveland Church of God) on liturgical worship and the liturgical calendar. That’s not something that is typical in a Pentecostal church, but it isn’t unique either; I’ve been aware of things going …
The successor of the likes of John Chane takes her opportunity: President Donald Trump blasted Mariann Edgar Budde, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, after she directed politically charged remarks towards him during an interfaith service of prayer for the country at the Washington National Cathedral on Tuesday, the day after Trump's inauguration. "Let me make …
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https://northamanglican.com/the-meaning-of-regeneration-commentary-on-browne-article-xxvii-1/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-meaning-of-regeneration-commentary-on-browne-article-xxvii-1 I've been thinking about posting on this topic, but, in their inimitable way, North American Anglican has posted this. Like many things in Christianity (vernacular liturgy being an important example,) Anglicanism has wrestled with many things it inherited from Roman Catholicism long before the Catholics did, and this is one of them. The core …
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The ACNA has yet another alleged sex abuser on their hands. as you can see above, His start in life is interesting, to say the least: Gough grew up in Palm Beach County. His mother died when he was young and his father worked 18-hour days. Gough, the grandson of wealthy Palm Beach socialites, began …
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