https://northamanglican.com/beating-the-bounds-of-anglican-eucharistic-doctrine-commentary-on-browne-article-xxviii/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=beating-the-bounds-of-anglican-eucharistic-doctrine-commentary-on-browne-article-xxviii This is a long exposition of Anglican Eucharistic doctrine that mostly succeeds in making it look complicated. I thought about doing a "blow by blow" on this, but I will restrict myself to referring my readers to my 2020 article on the subject, Overcomplicating Anglican Eucharistic Theology. https://bossuetproject.wordpress.com/2020/10/19/overcomplicating-anglican-eucharistic-theology/?page_id=14108
Reformed Methodist–The North American Anglican
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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The Strategic Issue Behind Trump’s Spats with Canada and Greenland
The American media's its usual uninformative self about geopolitical issues, but this video puts many things in a whole new light: https://youtu.be/rCBt4XgCX-0?si=-a6e7iUdUwhxrSP4 It makes perfect sense that the U.S. would want to secure its northern frontier against incursion by the...Russians and Chinese, those people who Trump's enemies have convinced themselves he has sold out to. …
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A Few Reminders on Fast and Abstinence During Lent
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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Something Worse than Monarchical Absolutism
Sometimes the most interesting and profound of statements come from some of the unlikeliest places, and this is one of them: it was reprinted in the January 1919 edition of Crane Valve World, the periodical of the Crane Company, the Chicago based company that makes valves and other fittings for piping of air, steam, water …
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The Mikado and the Europeans
Teaching at Lee University has brought back memories of things I experienced there before even I was drawn into their fledgling engineering program. Now that we are on our way to a building for same with the woes of the present world for a background, there's something that has come back to mind that I …
“Old High Church” Planting–North American Anglican, with Some Comments
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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Hopefully, @JDVance Won’t Be Too Soon Old and Too Late Smart About Roman Catholic Social Justice Teaching
The Catholic Church in the US is distressed about Trump's immigrant policies: Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio, the USCCB president, said in a Wednesday statement that some provisions of Trump's executive actions, including those that affect immigrants and refugees, "are deeply troubling and will have negative consequences." To which Vance came back: "I think that the U.S. Conference …
My Impressions of “Communion Chapel”
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 Diocese of Washington Strikes Again, and About Those Security Clearances…
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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