byThe Rev. Charles Nalls, SSMThe Rev. Mr. Jason Dechenne, SSMand The Rev. Richard Sutter, SSM The Anglican Church in America April 3, 2008 ABSTRACT From the beginning of the traditional or "continuing" movement, the question of a qualified, educated and well-formed clergy has been most problematic. Untrained, poorly trained and/or poorly formed deacons,... Continue Reading →
Good Friday and the Great Vigil
GOOD FRIDAY-2008 Good evening, everyone, As we conclude Good Friday and attend on the Great Vigil of Easter, we are squarely faced with questions--the first being, “Why are we here?” The answer is that we are here this night at the foot of the Cross to find out who Jesus really is. It... Continue Reading →
The Plan of Narnia
Priest and Scholar Michael Ward may have uncovered a hitherto unknown organizing schema for C. S. Lewis' Narnia Chronicles in his assertion that the classical gods of the planets form the interpretive framework for the seven chronicles. (see the Touchstone article here.) Other schema have been suggested in the past, as Ward notes in his... Continue Reading →
Letty Russell and our theological enemies
Letty Russell died recently. She was a radical feminist professor at Yale Divinity School -- the sort of theologian who makes your standard-issue liberal protestant look like a dowdy stick-in-the-mud. In other words, she was not the sort of person I would normally be attracted to! But many years ago fate led our paths to... Continue Reading →