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The Adventures of Pope Bono and the Unpardonable Sin
Filed under: Ask an Anglican, Videos Tagged: Anglo-Catholicism, Bono, Broad Church, Evangelicalism, Liberalism, Liturgy, Naughty By Nature, Prayer, Repentance, Spider-Man, Unpardonable Sin
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On The Eucharist: This Is My Body… No, Seriously, It Is…
The starting point for all doctrine is Holy Scripture, and as the articles tell us, nothing can be required of a person to be believed if it is not grounded in Scripture. It would seem then that the...
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Postmodern Episcopal Meltdown
Answering questions about the loss of liturgy in modern Protestantism and the loss of just about everything in the modern Episcopal Church. Filed under: Ask an Anglican, Videos Tagged:...
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What Love’s Got to Do With It
The Episco-media world is a-buzz about an op-ed last weekend by New York Times columnist Ross Douthat in which he dares to ask the question, “Can Liberal Christianity Be Saved?” Responses have varied,...
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Religion is Not Like Oatmeal
Or “How to Suck at Your Critique of My Religion” The online comic artist The Oatmeal is known for sharp witted, irreverent, and often hilarious send-ups of everything from web design to (ahem)...
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Ask an Anglican: The Ordination of Women
Continuing from the question asked in the previous post, Nick writes: …I’ve always been taught that women are not meant to be Priests or Bishops, and some of Paul’s writings seem to back this up....
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Praying Twice: The Church’s One Foundation
As Fr. Stephen Freeman has so eloquently put it, “For human beings, the Church is what salvation looks like.” This is a frightening thought for some and a downright scandalous notion for others. There...
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The Myth of the Big Tent Church
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...
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The Right and Wrong Way to Be a Pastor
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...
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Real Church Growth
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...
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Fight For Your Right to Parties
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...
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Satisfaction’s Guarantee
Classical Anglicanism is all about the atonement. The liturgies of the prayer book are saturated with the blood of the cross. This is a scandal to the world and an embarrassment to many modern...
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Where We Start and Where We Finish
Whether systematic or not, all theologies rely on a set of underlying philosophical principles. Sometimes these principles are openly acknowledged, sometimes not, but either way the end point of a...
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How to Stand for Classical Anglicanism in the Midst of Anglican Pluralism
It is very difficult to speak of Anglicanism these days without a modifier. There is no longer Anglicanism but rather Anglicanisms. Catholic Anglicanism, Evangelical Anglicanism, Liberal Anglicanism,...
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Evolving Words and the Word of God
Among the many podcasts I listen to is the Slate program Lexicon Valley which is kind of a pop exploration of all things language related, think Radio Lab but with words instead of science. A recent...
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Ask an Anglican: What’s in a Name?
That’s what Juliet asked in Shakespeare’s famous love story gone wrong. And in our own love story gone wrong, the modern Church, it is a question that gets asked fairly often as well. Thus, Matty...
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Religion is Not Like Oatmeal
Or “How to Suck at Your Critique of My Religion” The online comic artist The Oatmeal is known for sharp witted, irreverent, and often hilarious send-ups of everything from web design to (ahem)...
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The Anglican Way: An Introduction
It has become something of a cliche to say that Anglicanism is broad and diverse. High Church Catholics who send up clouds of incense so thick that they would make the pope cough are just as Anglican...
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Anglicanism’s Unique Doctrine
Before going any further, take a look at this post by Br. Tobias Haller, BSG, over at his blog, “In a Godward Direction.” It’s only two paragraphs, but it serves as a succinct explication of an...
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Ask an Anglican: The 39 Articles
Samuel writes: To what extent do the 39 articles shape modern Anglicanism? From my Church of England perspective it seems to be bordering on disingenuity to quote from them in an unqualified manner;...
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