, translated from the Latin by Lady Ann Bacon
Liturgical Celebration:
Whitsunday
Ember Day
Whitsunday
Ember Day
1662 Book of Common Prayer
Theme Lighthouse:
Bishop's Rock
1928 Book of Common Prayer
Anglican Calendar Script
Church Hymns in MIDI Format
Gildas: On the Ruin of Britain
Bishop's Rock is the furthest "out" lighthouse around Land's End in Cornwall, England, and is a fitting symbol of the present state of the Anglican Communion as one could want.
- It is at "Land's End" of England; are we witnessing the end of the Anglican Communion?
- It is the closest point of the Archbishop of Canterbury's realm to the U.S., which got us into this mess to start with. (The Canadians helped too.)
- There are many rocks and shoals around Land's End; has the Communion wrecked on the shoals of liberalism at last?
- This lighthouse (and others in the area) have been "flat-topped" for a heliport. We need help from on high if we're going to be the light of the world!
Home Church, Anglican Style
The Island Chronicles
The Life of the Archpriest Avvakum by Himself
More material of interest to Anglicans
- Positive Infinity New Testament
- Orthodoxy, G.K. Chesterton's magnificent presentation of the essentials of Christianity
- What is the Gospel?
- My Lord and My God. A comprehensive look at the deity of Christ and the nature of the Godhead. Primarily intended to address the Jehovah's Witness (Arian) position, it is relevant to Anglicans since the Archdiocese of Sydney (Australia) invoked the subordination of the Son as a reason to exclude women from ordination into the ministry. Although this work supports the concept of subordinationism, we still can't see what that has to do with the ministry of women. (For a view from someone who does, click here.)
- A reminiscence of James Pike.
Reclaiming the Great Commission: A Review
A State of Being
The Keyhole
Sweet Jesus
Taming the Rowdies
Think Before You Convert
The Thirty-Nine Articles and Reformation Anglicanism: Biblical Authority Defined and Applied
(pdf format)
Asley Null, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Cambridge UniversitySo that if, on the one side, we shall be traduced by Popish Persons at home or abroad, who therefore will malign us...or if, on the other side, we shall be maligned by self-conceited Brethren, who run their own ways, and give liking unto nothing, but what is framed by themselves, and hammered on their anvil...
The Thiry-Nine Articles represents an attempt to estblish a Scriptural, Protestant religion that avoids both of these extremes, and ultimately produced the Authorised Version itself. An excellent analysis of an important declaration of faith for Anglicans and others.
Visit to Zagorsk
When Church Becomes Pointless
The Church: Going Back to What? | Jonathan Stone explores the issue of "Primal Church:" When I speak of primal church I am not speaking of some sort of neanderthal church, but rather those primitive elements that still serve as the basic building blocks of the church. For example, geometrically speaking, we can think of the primitive shapes such as cones, spheres, pyramids, [...] |
Preface for Whitsunday (Pentecost) | From the 1662 Book of Common Prayer: …according to whose most true promise, the Holy Ghost came down as at this time from heaven with a sudden great sound, as it had been a mighty wind in the likeness of fiery tongues, lighting upon the Apostles, to teach them, and to lead them to all truth; [...] |
Protestant or Catholic: Choose Ye This Day, Anglicans | The Vatican is trying to force Anglicans’ hand on the subject of which way they need to go: The Vatican has said that the time has come for the Anglican Church to choose between Protestantism and the ancient churches of Rome and Orthodoxy. Speaking on the day that the Archbishop of Canterbury met Benedict XVI in Rome, [...] |
Opening Sentence for Ascensiontide | From the opening sentences from the 1928 Book of Common Prayer, the one for the Ascension season: Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God…Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help [...] |
Women Bishops in the Church of England: It?s a Little Late to Stop Them | The fuss surrounding the "Manchester Report" on how to achieve women bishops in the Church of England overlooks a significant weakness in the argument against them: who really is the head of the Church of England? Everybody knows the answer to that question (well, almost:) the Queen, who is the "Lady and Governor" of the church. [...] |
The Cracked Plate: Commissioned for God?s Service | Archbishop Greg Venables of the Southern Cone gave a difficult commissioning address to those in the Anglican Network in Canada, departing as they are from their original church: God is presenting us with an opportunity to say to an old and sad world with all its sense of nowhere to go, we have got to the [...] |
The Chinese Discover ?Certainly Not Neutral? | The Chinese are discovering what many in the U.S. have known for a long time: that much of the "mainstream" media is biased, and especially CNN, which G. Gordon Liddy humourously referred to one time as "Certainly Not Neutral." This has been brought home to them by the remarks of Jack Cafferty. Some Chinese have started [...] |
More Thoughts on Eastern Orthodoxy | Catherine Tremper has brought up some interesting (and well documented) points about my post Why People Shouldn’t Become Orthodox. So let me make some response, citing her first: Taking the long view, Avvakum wasn’t very representative of Orthodoxy. In a long ago Russian history class I was told that early Orthodoxy in Russia focussed on ritual [...] |
Focusing on What?s Important in Christianity | Recently received the following response from my post Is Evangelism unAnglican?: I just discovered your blog this afternoon. Haven’t explored it much yet, but I feel comfortable here already. Currently, I remain a traditional Anglican (Episcopal Missionary Church) who came to Canterbury by way of Constantinople (altough brought up as a vaguely Protestant Army brat). My [...] |
Is Evangelism unAnglican? | In the early 1980’s, I visited Hong Kong while on the way back from the third and last in a series of business trips to China. While reading the South China Morning Post, I noted that an Anglican church was conducting a street service at the Star Ferry terminal on the Kowloon side. I was Roman [...] |
