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Book Review: “What Still Divides Us”–North American Anglican, and Some Comments

https://northamanglican.com/book-review-what-still-divides-us/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=book-review-what-still-divides-us As someone who has been "there and back again" on this divide (and there are few of us who have made that journey) I think I could add something to the discussion, so here goes: In the first chapter, “How are we Saved?” Maloney points out significant differences in how Protestants and Roman Catholics …

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Francis Collins Calls it Quits

It's done: Late last week, Christian geneticist Francis Collins resigned abruptly as a researcher at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). On Wednesday this week, the U.S. Senate held a confirmation hearing for a new NIH director, Stanford University medical professor Jay Bhattacharya, a fellow Christian who Collins privately disparaged as one of “three fringe epidemiologists” during the COVID …

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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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“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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The Elephant in the Room on Baptismal Regeneration

https://northamanglican.com/the-meaning-of-regeneration-commentary-on-browne-article-xxvii-1/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-meaning-of-regeneration-commentary-on-browne-article-xxvii-1 I've been thinking about posting on this topic, but, in their inimitable way, North American Anglican has posted this. Like many things in Christianity (vernacular liturgy being an important example,) Anglicanism has wrestled with many things it inherited from Roman Catholicism long before the Catholics did, and this is one of them. The core …

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Book Review: We Believe: An Exposition of the Church of God Declaration of Faith

Thanks to recent events, the whole business of the Church of God Declaration of Faith has become more important. Those of us who teach at Church of God institutions such as Lee University—even when that teaching isn’t theological in nature—are required to avoid teaching that which is contrary to the Declaration of Faith. Our ministers …

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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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The Ghosts of Gothard and the Headship Charismatics Still Haunt the ACNA

The new Most Rev. Steve Wood's home diocese's position on WO bears that out: Bishop Wood's position is more nuanced. The Anglican Diocese of the Carolinas Policy for Women in Order has supported the ordination of women as deacons and priests in the church, with the provision that women may not serve in the office of …

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Formulating Orthodoxy: The Centrality of Canon Law for Common Prayer and Doctrine–The North American Anglican

https://northamanglican.com/formulating-orthodoxy-the-centrality-of-canon-law-for-common-prayer-and-doctrine/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=formulating-orthodoxy-the-centrality-of-canon-law-for-common-prayer-and-doctrine There are a couple of things that the Rev. Andrew Brashier's verbiose treatment of the subject left out. The first concerns the whole "Patristic revival" that brought things such as the Apostolic Canons back into view. He's right that it was a background for both the Novus Ordo Missae and that dreadful 1979 Book …

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It’s That Time Again: Reflections on the 2024 Church of God General Council Agenda

It really is that time again: the Church of God is looking at another General Council and General Assembly in Indianapolis, IN. The agenda itself is here and I’ll be doing a “blow by blow” commentary on same. Before all of that let’s start with a cautionary note: the most significant part of the Council’s …

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