Category Archives: General Posts

Fight For Your Right to Parties

Posted on April 22, 2013 by

One of the developing facets of Anglicanism since the nineteenth century has been the introduction of church parties. Anglo-Catholicism, Evangelicalism and Liberalism all owe their existence as distinct positions on the Anglican landscape to late eighteenth and nineteenth century movements … Continue reading →

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Welcome, Benjamin Guyer

Posted on April 6, 2013 by

It is a joy for me to read the questions that come in on an almost daily basis, but as the mailbag has gotten more full, the responses have slowed way down. So I have been recruiting some new folks … Continue reading →

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Unplugging for Lent

Posted on February 12, 2013 by

During Lent this year, my use of the computer will be limited to Sundays. I wrote a brief blog post about why on my parish’s website. I won’t reiterate any of that here, except to say that there are some … Continue reading →

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Real Church Growth

Posted on January 27, 2013 by

I have had the honor of participating in some truly wonderful conversations lately with smart thinkers from across the Episcopal Church, orthodox men and women who see a future for Anglicanism to be hopeful for, in this country and abroad. … Continue reading →

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Sola or Solo Scriptura? (And Other Questions That Don’t Make Grammatical Sense)

Posted on December 21, 2012 by

Following my recent thoughts on Lutheranism and the inherent problems of sola Scriptura, the events that have swept us all up here in America have overshadowed my desire to delve back into this too terribly deeply. There just is not … Continue reading →

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Every Man a Pope (or Why I’m Not a Lutheran)

Posted on December 12, 2012 by

For the past year or so, I have participated in a Bible Study every Tuesday morning with a group of mostly Lutheran Church Missouri Synod pastors. We look at the readings for the week in the original languages and discuss … Continue reading →

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The Right and Wrong Way to Be a Pastor

Posted on December 9, 2012 by

Justification and how we are saved is still very much a live wire in Christian dialogue today, as I think we have proved on this blog several times over. Nevertheless, while there are very real differences between how Roman Catholics … Continue reading →

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Death Is Not Natural

Posted on November 12, 2012 by

Among the clumsy things that we say to try to comfort one another when somebody dies, there are a number of phrases that insinuate, either explicitly or implicitly, that death is a good thing, even a godly thing. ‘It was … Continue reading →

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The Myth of the Big Tent Church

Posted on October 23, 2012 by

A while back, I heard someone describe Anglicanism as an effort to get Thomas Aquinas and John Calvin to sit together in the same pew. At the time, I thought that was fairly clever, but in retrospect I realize that … Continue reading →

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Either the Saints Are Alive or Jesus is Dead

Posted on September 5, 2012 by

I have written before on the controversy in early Anglicanism about the interpretation of Article XXII and its ban on the invocation of the saints. To be sure, classical Anglicanism sought to distance itself from the folk practices of saint … Continue reading →

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