The North American Anglican has not included me (wisely, some would say) in the official responders' list to the above referenced post. But I would like to do so, and since I have this forum (and have commented on many of their posts in the past) I will do so on this one. I only …
Why Pentecostals Should Believe in the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist
The whole subject of the Eucharist is one which has occupied this site for a long time. Probably my most read--and infamous--post on the subject was my 2015 piece Bill Clinton's Eucharistic Theology: It Depends on What 'Is' Is, where I tried to use the legal woes of our last Scots-Irish president to make a point …
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The Word of God’s Songs of Praise Volume 1 Are Now on YouTube
You can see them here: https://youtu.be/7OLz2CDOw0Q The songs: A1 Allelu!A2 Alleluia, Sons Of God AriseA3 The Angel Of The LordA4 Away They Went With WeepingA5 Balm In GileadA6 Bless The Lord, O My SoulA7 The Breath Of GodA8 Canticle Of The GiftB1 Canticle Of The Three Young MenB2 Come, Follow MeB3 Come, Go With Me …
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The Frigidaire–and the Church Named After It–Aren’t What They Used to Be
The failure of of the ice maker in our refrigerator--which we thought premature--has led us to videos like this, where we found out we were blessed: https://youtu.be/iP1JwoRSTDs?si=YqFzkoXg_NRuffpz One of the brands mentioned as "not what they used to be" was Frigidaire. Fundie and fundie-adjacent types will recall the days when preachers--sweating, bawling and thumping the …
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The ACNA’s Demographic is the Key to Understanding Why It Is a Target
The Baptist News, of all places, makes this observation: Beneath the salacious headlines from the Anglican Church in North America lies a high-stakes battle about military chaplaincy. Although one of the nation’s smaller Christian denominations, the ACNA endorses a disproportionately massive share of United States military chaplains. And that has been a profit center for the Jurisdiction …
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Derek Jones and Those Wandering ACNA Bishops
As we careen from one year of artificial intelligence combined with (and to some extent born out of) real stupidity, it's time to stop and take a look at the Anglican Church in North America, that rickety chandelier of an organisation mired with serious problems with its bishops, and three in particular. The matter of …
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The Fathers of the Church Come to a Pentecostal University
As some of you know, I teach at Lee University in their new Engineering program. Recently I reserved a computer lab to administer a test, and was regaled with the above, from St. John Chrystostom's Pascal Homily. It was written on the white board (the students were amazed it was in cursive, I guess I …
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The Stephen Wood Chaplaincy Case Just Gets Stranger and Stranger
And more acrimonious too: It’s getting downright nasty and legal. ACNA bishops led by Bishop Phil Ashey contend that the charges of misconduct (but not of a sexual nature) laid at the feet of Bishop Derek Jones of the Special Jurisdiction of the Armed Forces and Chaplaincy (SJAFC) are grounds for an inhibition. The complaints …
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Just a Reminder: The Men Kicked Off Apostasy
There's been quite a lot of pushback to the election (?) of Sarah Mullally as Archbishop of Canterbury, much of which concentrates of the fact that she's a woman (at least that's defined, no mean feat these days) and this breaks with the rest of the Anglican Communion, with Rome, with Constantinople, Moscow, and many …
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The Missing Lesson in “The Drama of Confession”
In a recent post by the North American Anglican entitled "The Drama of Confession," the author goes into a long Anglican description of the importance and benefits of confession, with emphasis (justified) on the Anglican "general confessions" that we see in traditional Anglican prayer books. For all of the detail he goes into, he misses …
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