My response to the Rev. Thomas Reeves' ideas on this subject has in turn received a response from him. That response is too extensive for a "comment box" type of response so I am devoting a post to the topic. I'll quote parts of his response, but for brevity's sake they'll be short, but you …
My Dialogue with an ACNA Priest re the Reformation and Anglicanism
Not too long ago I reviewed a book entitled Was Jesus an Evangelical? by the Rev. Thomas Reeves, an ACNA priest in Roanoke, VA. He's come back with some interesting points (most of which are in his book, in more detail) and he's given me the opportunity to post then and comment. We'll start here: …
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A Pleasant Surprise from an old Anglican Commenter
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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The Boomers (or at Least Some of Them) Really Did Tank This Country
An interesting exchange between Sean Illing of Vox and Steven Brill yields this: Sean Illing The story of decline you tell really begins about 50 years ago, so is this basically a story of how a subset of the baby boomer generation drove the country off a cliff? Steven Brill That may be too much …
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At Last, Some Good News on the (Non-)Marriage Front
A British couple has won a course case based on the obvious, which is very difficult in the United States: A heterosexual couple who were denied the right to enter into a civil partnership have won their claim at the UK’s highest court that they have suffered discrimination. Justices at the supreme court unanimously found …
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Book Review: Herbert Mortimer Luckock’s The Divine Liturgy, or Why Reformed Anglicans Go Postal
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, …
Some Thoughts on the 2018 Church of God General Council Agenda
Well, it's that time of the biennium again, when our ministers and their church pack up and spend several million dollars on the gathering called the General Assembly. I've made it my habit to comment on the agenda, which can be found here. The last time, OurCoG copied my comments in serial format (guys, next …
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Yes, Down’s Syndrome Children can Go to College
One, at least: Confidence is not something the 22-year-old Parker lacks. She’s the only student at UTC with Down syndrome, but its limitations are simply things for her to overcome, not hold her back. Although she usually has someone with her while she’s on campus, she’s unafraid to go it alone. Friends, family and teachers …
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Book Review: Thomas Reeves’ Was Jesus an Evangelical?
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 …
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Lessons about Women’s Ordination from Palm Beach’s Social System
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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Positive Infinity 