Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
In looking through the links on Anglican Curmudgeon (which have taken the place of StandFirm for an index of Anglican/Episcopal blogs) I noticed something I never thought I'd see: Robin Jordan's Reshaping the 1928 Prayer Book Services for Mission, in four parts. That's because, for a long time, his position on the 1928 BCP ran …
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He was the Dean of the Lichfield Cathedral; his son was a schoolmate of Winston Churchill's, and he wrote many books from his Anglo-Catholic perspective. In The Divine Liturgy, Herbert Mortimer Luckock does a complete analysis of the Holy Communion in the 1662 Book of Common Prayer, and his journey has been, for me personally, …
One of the things that makes writing this blog tricky is the simple fact that being a product of the Anglican and Catholic world on the one hand and being in the Pentecostal world on the other forces one to live in many "tensions" to borrow a term from the seminary academics. Some of those …
Continue reading "Book Review: Thomas Reeves’ Was Jesus an Evangelical?"
Some readers of the blog are doubtless buffaloed at my blasé attitude regarding what Anglicans call WO (women's ordination.) I explain some of my rationale here but some of that comes from being a product of the Palm Beach social system. That system--exclusivistic and highly non-industrial--moulds everyone who lives there in ways that aren't obvious …
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He did the "Jericho March" around the White House last night: The Holy Spirit came a knocking for President Trump Thursday night ... in the form of royal wedding preacher Bishop Michael Curry. The standout star of Prince Harry and Meghan's big day was part of a candlelight vigil in the Capitol that included prayer …
But, when Christ came, he appeared as High Priest of that Better System which was established; and he entered through that nobler and more perfect 'Tabernacle,' not made by human hands--that is to say, not a part of this present creation. (Hebrews 9:11 TCNT) For the structures that are made by human hands (with a …
Continue reading "Build a House with 3D Printing? An Anglican Divine Shows the Way"
All of the blather we've been hearing about Presiding Bishop (not Archbishop) Michael Curry's sermon at the royal wedding last weekend obviously focuses attention not only on Curry and the duplicitous Justin Welby but on the Episcopal Church in general. I don't doubt that same church, faced with years of declining membership and self-inflicted litigation …
Continue reading "Why I’m in a Pentecostal Church and Not an Episcopal One"
The upside of that status was very much in evidence at the royal wedding yesterday, but every silver lining has a cloud. We've discussed this issue before. One normally expects the chief objectors to be Evangelicals, but this comes from the Anglo-Catholic Herbert Luckock's The Divine Liturgy: Every thoughtful ecclesiastical ruler recognises the absence of …
Continue reading "The Faustian Bargain of Being the State Church"
I’m glad to share a new article just published at the blog of The Living Church. I am basically asking why Anglicans have a concrete approach to music, theology, and architecture, but don’t seem to have anything like this when it comes to global mission. Here is the lead: Like most Christians, we Anglicans tend …
In all of their glorification of the "giants of the faith," evangelicals either overlook or ignore the fact that same giants were usually far better versed in the classics of antiquity than is common today.  To some extent this is understandable: study of these works has taken a beating the last fifty years, and we …
Continue reading "Scourged and Crucified: A Good Friday Reflection"
Positive Infinity 