https://northamanglican.com/a-second-look-at-lying-and-the-ethics-of-the-new-christian-right/ The response to Ben Crenshaw's bold statement strikes me as overcomplicated, I have a few thoughts on this issue. It's one thing to say lying is a sin, but to say that lying has no eternal consequences--the ultimate criterion--undercuts the sinfulness of lying. That's built into a number of theologies floating around today. I've …
The Sad Passing of commonprayer.org
In the midst of the many things--good and bad--that transpire these days, one thing crept up on me that I wasn't expecting and regret to see--the passing of the website commonprayer.org. It was vanished completely since the first of the year. As a person who was raised on and still uses the 1928 Book of …
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 …
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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“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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The Pre-Vatican II Catholic Church’s Stand on Abortion
As sort of an aside to The Elephant in the Room on Baptismal Regeneration, this, from Farrell's Parish Catechism: Is abortion always a mortal sin? Abortion--willfully causing the death of an unborn baby--is always murder, even when suggested or demanded by a surgeon for any reason whatsoever. Abortion is the murder of the innocent unborn infant. …
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