An Advent devotion
Revelation is always disorienting. The finite cannot comprehend the infinite.
Defending Reformation feast days
If we truly anguish over the Church, then let us beat our breasts, rend our clothes, and sign our foreheads with ashes. The cry and the lament of Reformation should move us to nothing if not these.
The Sundays after Pentecost
Every moment may be set apart and consecrated to God through acts of Christian service and devotion. What else is the Christian life but this?
Am I ‘post-Christian’?
The Barna Group's metrics have far less to do with being ‘post-Christian’ than with being ‘post-evangelical’.
Why be an Anglican?
William writes: “Might you have some encouraging words for someone who is recently converted to Anglicanism / Episcopalianism — who does not want to join ACNA, AMiA, or, for example, the Reformed Episcopal Church — who wants to enter TEC but is frightened because of its current, tragic state?”
Some theses on ‘political theology’
If education does not produce a profound sense of one’s own finitude, then one deserves to hear only the judgment of God: ‘Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge?’ (Job 38:2)
What is Anglican monasticism?
I’ve heard you mention monasticism on your blog several times, and I was wondering if you knew of any traditionalist/conservative Anglican monasteries either in the US or in the Church of England?
The Hail Mary and Corpus Christi
Derek writes: 1.) What is doctrinally wrong with the Hail Mary in regards to asking for prayer? How is it different than me asking you for the same? 2.) Why is Eucharistic Adoration frowned upon?