Jesus prayed for unity
Does Jesus expect unity at any cost? Stott takes a step back and asks, “Who is the unity between?”
Doctrine
What C. S. Lewis gets right and wrong in “The Weight of Glory”
My wife and I were talking about what things in our childhood prepared us to embrace our Christian faith as adults. We both agreed that C. S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia played a big role in “baptizing our imaginations.” I was baptized when I was 14. It was a genuine …
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(A)rian (I)ntelligence
In a recent open letter, The Future of Life Institute, notes: “AI labs [are] locked in an out-of-control race to develop and deploy ever more powerful digital minds that no one – not even their creators – can understand, predict, or reliably control.” After noting that “contemporary AI systems are …
If Anglicanism is everything, it’s nothing
When I say “Anglican,” what do you hear? Do you hear via media? Do you hear Protestant, Catholic, Evangelical, or Anglo-Catholic? The temptation throughout Anglican history has been to become confused about our identity. Various groups have reduced Anglicanism to various assertions, for instance, the Chicago-Lambeth Quadrilateral or the Tracts …
“A Born Again Episcopalian”: The evangelical witness of Charles P. McIlvaine
Bishop McIlvaine was a leading voice of evangelical Anglicanism in the 19th Century.
“Evangelicals on the Canterbury Trail” revisited
Gillis Harp on why the Canterbury Trail phenomenon is so prevalent in the North American Anglican tradition.
Beginning Lent differently
The season of Lent is almost here, and it begins with Ash Wednesday. This brief look back at the classic Anglican liturgy for Ash Wednesday provides suggestions for how its theology can inform Ash Wednesday services today.
Planning instruction on the Articles of Religion
Ten sermons or ten class sessions is a manageable amount of time, probably not dissimilar to the sermon series that pastors already arrange. The sessions could easily be covered over the course of a Church season. These divisions align with the three-fold division that is customary across the Anglican tradition, but they also allow for focused and manageable attention to the doctrines in the Articles.
Children and the Lord’s Supper
David K. Phillips shares the view of the English Reformers on the communion of children.
Is grace really that common?
What could be so bad about common grace? Didn’t God love sinners enough to send His Son to die for them?
Principles of the English Reformation
Philip Edgcumbe Hughes summarizes critical principles of the English Reformation.
The problem of suffering
Why do we suffer? Where is God in our pain? What hope do we have amidst suffering? What does God say about pain?
Peter Akinola on authentic Anglicanism
Peter Akinola, now retired as archbishop of the Church of Nigeria, reflected on the essence of Anglicanism.
Christians and “pronoun hospitality”
If we aren’t hiding under a rock, we will be increasingly meeting, working, and living with those who identify as transgender. Should we use their chosen pronouns?
The problem of images in Anglican worship
We do not need to see a representation of Jesus with our eyes to see Jesus. Indeed, we are told, “A little while, and ye shall not see me”(John 16:16). We need no images of Jesus. We’ve distorted Him enough already with the ones we have, even when made for so-called teaching or artistic purposes.
Are images of Christ acceptable in worship?
While images of Christ do not sanctify us, they may turn us more zealously and readily to the ordinary means of grace which God has instituted.