In my post on the ACNA's 2019 Book of Common Prayer, I made mention that the Diocese of Quincy had banned its use (as had Anglican Ink.)Â There has been some push back to that, from VirtueOnline and Robin Jordan, that this is not what they have done. Although I'll betray my Thomistic intellectual background …
Some Thoughts on the 2019 Book of Common Prayer
If I had to pick an event that transformed this site's focus and viewership more than any other, it was my posting of the 1928 Book of Common Prayer in December 2003. The 1662 Book was posted the following year. Coming as they did at the start of the explosion (and partly in response to …
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Gilbert and Sullivan on the English Elites and the Iwerene Mess
In this post on the subject on Anglican.ink, an interesting observation about some of the participants: Here one has to raise a very serious question viz a viz GAFCON. Why was Andy Lines (also a product of this culture and apparently abused by his mentor, Fletcher) selected and by whom to be chairman of GAFCON …
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Pete Buttigieg, Episcopal Snob
The first round of Democratic Presidential debates is, mercifully, over. Winners and losers will sort themselves out in due season, but in the meanwhile let's consider one whom the media fawned over: Pete Buttigieg, South Bend's mayor. He's made quite a career doing something that none of his rivals have done to the extent that …
Bethesda-by-the-Sea Episcopal Church: The Unauthorised Tour
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Renunciation is Central to Christianity, But You’d Never Know It
I recently had an interesting back and forth with a guy I went to prep school with on "Renouncing Privilege."Â Evidently he and I have a different take on what that means, as evidenced by his comment: Many of the students were, and probably still are wealthy, still privileged. I would not try to make …
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The Thing About Myself that @rachelheldevans Brought to Mind
I was saddened by the last voyage of Rachel Held Evans. It is never good for such a thing to happen, especially at this time in life. She was not so far from us and my wife and I know several of her fellow parishioners at St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Cleveland. It's best to …
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ACNA and CANA: The Baling Wire Unravels, and Some Thoughts About Ethnicity and Churches
They put a good face on a messy situation: Archbishop Foley Beach, Primate of the Anglican Church in North America, and Archbishop Nicholas Okoh, Primate of the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion), have signed an agreement regarding the status of the Convocation of Anglicans in North America (CANA) dioceses in both provinces... The agreement provides …
The “Acceptable Religion” Concept Makes a Comeback
Historical amnesia is a common American malady. One of those aspects of American life that is oft forgotten is that of the "acceptable religion," the idea that certain religions are more socially acceptable (and thus more amenable to their adherents moving up) than others. In the past, this was mostly an intramural contest within Christianity …
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Beating the Sheep Doesn’t Work
I recently reviewed Latta Griswold's The Middle Way, this is another quote from that, in his advice on sermons: The most ineffective, and ultimately the most objectionable of all preachers, is the scold. There is a vast difference between rebuking evil and exposing to a congregation the sins to which they are prone, and scolding. …
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