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Reformed vs. Re-formed: A Synopsis–North American Anglican

https://northamanglican.com/reformed-vs-re-formed-a-synopsis/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=reformed-vs-re-formed-a-synopsis I did my best to follow this back and forth, but it wasn't easy. For me, however, the key point finally came here: The crux of this dispute is the nature and substance of the English Reformation. The basic facts of what occurred during the English Reformation are generally agreed upon, but its larger …

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Book Review: Iain Murray’s Evangelicalism Divided: A Record of Crucial Change in the Years 1950-2000

It’s a new year, and for the Church of England it’s time to find a new Archbishop of Canterbury after the disastrous reign of Justin Welby. When Welby was enthroned, there was a great deal of enthusiasm about him. He’s an evangelical, they said; he can fix the problems of heterodoxy that plague the Church …

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Lo! He Comes with Clouds Descending – Second Sunday in Advent — North American Anglican

https://northamanglican.com/lo-he-comes-with-clouds-descending-second-sunday-in-advent/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=lo-he-comes-with-clouds-descending-second-sunday-in-advent This was an old favourite of mine back at Bethesda, but was lost from my worship from "swimming the Tiber" onwards. The last loss was due to the perfidious influence of the Baptists, as I discuss (complete with YouTube video) in my post The Wesleyan Advent Hymn the Wesleyan Pentecostals Don't Sing. It's ironic that …

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Smyth’s Spankings Come Back to Haunt British Evangelicals

It's not getting better, even with the departure of the current Occupant at Canterbury: The long knives are out. John Smyth's sadistic behavior which has claimed the Archbishop of Canterbury, could claim as much as 30 percent of the Church of England's evangelicals, a confidential source told VOL. There has been a conspiracy of silence …

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Ministerial Character, Intention, and the Sacraments–North American Anglican

https://northamanglican.com/ministerial-character-intention-and-the-sacraments-commentary-on-browne-article-xxvi/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ministerial-character-intention-and-the-sacraments-commentary-on-browne-article-xxvi This has been a lot hotter issue in the past than it is now, but it's an important one. Bossuet discussed it in his History of the Variations of the Protestant Churches; my comment on the subject is as follows: Especially interesting are the Vaudois, who were in reality an unauthorised, non-celibate religious community …

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Just a Reminder of What Happens to People Who Resign in the UK

As a follow-up to my post Justin Welby Throws the Towel In, a reminder of what happens to people who resign in the UK is in order: https://youtu.be/ygLg-7G0Xp0?si=-QUiaA7vgmvntoKz Be seeing you!

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Justin Welby Throws the Towel In

You can read his resignation letter above. In my own church we have a successful minister who, at a previous church to the one he's in now, had a campaign for his church entitled "Trading Your Title for a Towel." When he resigned his church for another appointment, I noted that the only thing he …

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Divine Healing and the Collect for St. Luke

Today is St. Luke's Day, and I am reproducing the collect for same from the 1928 Book of Common Prayer. It specifically calls on God to "(m)anifest in thy Church the like power and love, to the healing of our bodies and our souls..." Bodies? Recently we've been regaled on Twitter with a cessationists' conference …

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The Meaning of “Reformed Catholic”: A Response to Gerald McDermott–The North American Anglican

https://northamanglican.com/the-meaning-of-reformed-catholic-a-response-to-gerald-mcdermott/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-meaning-of-reformed-catholic-a-response-to-gerald-mcdermott I find the debate over Anglicanism's position between Protestant and Catholic somewhere between unenlightening and tiresome, because it doesn't really get us to what Anglicanism is supposed to be. Subsequent events have shed some light on the subject but it's ignored by many who should know better. As someone who has been both in …

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An Anglican Healing

The news came as a shock for Jenn Murff and her husband Justin. In June of 2022, they learned she had a tangled mass of blood vessels in her brain known as an arteriovenous malformation or “AVM.” On a scale of 1-6, it measured a five. It was so large and complex, they couldn’t find …

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