Non angeli, sed anglicani
A few years ago, pre-Covid, I began a podcast of the Daily Office, as given in the 1928 (US) BCP. In May of 2021 (during Covid-tide), I encountered an article by Father Martin Thornton about the Office. You can hear his thoughts here, or read them for yourself here. I found his suggestions compelling, especially... Continue Reading →
(reprinted from 2008) In recent years we have started to hear some Christian groups encouraging Christians not to observe Hallowe’en, not to let our children trick-or-treat, not to go to costume parties. Many of those groups urge churches to have “harvest parties” as an alternative, or even just ignore the day entirely and pretend it... Continue Reading →
A common question amongst Anglicans these days—indeed, it has been for many years now—is “where ought we to go?” As a matter of fact, I ran an online discussion forum for over a decade where this was the most discussed topic. The landscape has changed quite a bit in the last couple years, however; not... Continue Reading →
I thought I’d share a final “Advent-ish” type meditation for these last few hours of Advent. It is traditional to preach in Advent on the Four Last Things: Death, Judgment, Heaven, and Hell. This particular meditation is about judgment. The Advent season collect makes it clear that at the last day, Jesus will come in... Continue Reading →
Praying the Office is a daily requirement for Anglican clergy, and a valuable and recommended practice for laity as well. For some Anglicans, it’s a simple matter of just picking up their BCP or DOB (the Daily Office Book, pictured here, which contains not only the Office, but all the readings from the lectionary, in... Continue Reading →
I've been thinking for a while about resurrecting this blog, and for the last week or so article theses have been flying at me from, it seems, all directions. First, a little background. There is a Sunday morning adult education class at St George's, the CANA parish in Colorado Springs, entitled "The Kingdom." The theme... Continue Reading →
I have received numerous comments privately and on the Anglo-Catholic Central forum, for which I am very thankful. Please accept my gratitude, all who passed on your thoughts to me. As a result, please see the second draft of the Anglican Mass in Modern English. Again, I welcome your critique.
After seeing the products of attempts to translate parts of the 1662 BCP and the U.S. 1928 BCP into modern English with varying degrees of success, I was about to give up, as have so many, the idea that liturgy could be written in modern English without sounding either pedestrian or trendy - or horrible. ... Continue Reading →
The Global Anglican Future Conference (www.gafcon.org) has finished. The semi-conservative attendees have produced a statement, the Jerusalem Declaration, for which they commend themselves and assert that they have chosen not to split or leave the Anglican Communion, but to reform it. Alas, what they have in mind is no reform-of-the-reform to reverse the damages of... Continue Reading →
What is the nature of spiritual truth? And who decides?
Anglo-Catholic Central 