The Gospel and the Works of God
In Acts 15, St. James and the Jerusalem Council take for granted that Gentile Christians will do just this: follow the commands of God.
Division Is a Choice
We continue to be divided because we continue to choose to be divided.
William Jones: Scripture makes the world speak
If children to ask William Jones what the sun is, he would tell them that it is a figure of Christ that teaches Christians to walk in the light.
The bare reading of Scripture and Anglican hermeneutics
Anglicanism is a community gathered around the Word.
Children without mothers and fathers, without hope of adoption
The province of Ontario’s proposed Bill 28, the “All Families are Equal Act," proposes removing the terms "mother," "father," and "adoptive" from birth certificates.
Why pray for the ‘saved’? Christian burial services, the unbaptized, and sinners
A theology of death should be accompanied by a healthy dose of agnosticism, since what happens after death is up to God and not to us.
Evaluating ‘This Holy Estate’: Ignoring the Old Testament
This Holy Estate engages only two Old Testament texts, Genesis 1 and Genesis 2, deeming them largely irrelevant. But we must attend to the whole of the Old Testament, not least for how the Word speaks in and through it.
Baptism and environmental stewardship
Canadian Anglicans have added a vow about environmentalism to their baptismal covenant. I worry that making environmental activism fundamental to Christian baptism obscures what is more fundamental to it.