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Fri, 17 Apr 2026 09:37:03 -0700

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Sat, 12 Jul 2025 17:52:09 -0700

The Book of Common Prayer: Thomas Cranmer’s Technology of the Heart, Simeon Zahl - YouTube

Wed, 02 Apr 2025 00:38:26 -0700

Robert crouse

Fri, 05 Jan 2024 22:39:41 -0700

Healey Willan’s Second Communion Service, Now in the Public Domain?

Thu, 04 Jan 2024 13:43:29 -0700

The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith has issued a statement seeking to “clarify” Fiducia Supplicans.

Fri, 17 Nov 2023 11:35:04 -0700

Parent’s Happiness (1903) - Jean-Eugène Buland (1852-1926)

Mon, 13 Nov 2023 13:32:01 -0700

A talk by Sr. Sara Butler on The debate about women priests

Sat, 04 Nov 2023 23:25:14 -0700

Fri, 03 Nov 2023 22:21:57 -0700

Currently reading: The Caroline Divines and the Church of Rome by Mark Langham 📚

The unpalatable fact is that certain decisions in any province affect all. We may think they shouldn’t, but they simply do. If we ignore this, we ignore what is already a real danger, the piece-by-piece dissolution of the Communion and the emergence of new structures in which relation to the Church of England and the See of Canterbury are likely not to figure significantly.
Rowan Williams, Presidential Address, 23 November 2010.

Fri, 03 Nov 2023 21:47:13 -0700

Currently reading: The Caroline Divines and the Church of Rome by Mark Langham 📚

Now that developments have occurred in the Episcopal Church of North America and the Anglican Church of Canada (and, to a lesser extent, in the Anglican Church in Australia) which are unacceptable to a large number of Provinces elsewhere, what can be salvaged of the notion of communion for Anglicanism?171 Calls to strengthen the internal bonds of the communion are read by some Anglicans as a move towards imposition of an un-Anglican uniformity, and they have in reaction emphasised the diversity that, for them, essentially characterises Anglicanism. In a 2007 address outlining the polity of the Episcopalian Church, the Bishop of Lexington rejected the concept of an Anglican ‘communion’, preferring to speak of ‘a voluntary association of autonomous churches bound together by a shared heritage from the Church of England and enjoying cooperative relationships for the purpose of mission [and] nothing more’.172 Such an assertion leaves no clear role or protection for the concept of orthodoxy, and consequently undermines the case for apostolicity and catholicity. It is for this reason that at this time the writings of the Caroline Divines are particularly important, as they express a clear vision, scripturally and patristically based, and guaranteed by a clear sense of orthodoxy, of the catholicity and apostolicity of the Church. Such a teaching can provide an important reference point for the contemporary Anglican Communion in its difficulties.

Fri, 03 Nov 2023 13:44:51 -0700

Bishop of Oswestry on the occasion of All Souls

Tue, 17 Oct 2023 10:09:28 -0700

The Angler’s House, Chris Thompson

Mon, 16 Oct 2023 18:30:00 -0700

I have written frequently that we are not in charge of the outcome of history. “Management” is among the great myths of the modern mind. Humility is the path of Christ.
– Fr Stephen Freeman
Source: Disappointment and Modernity

Mon, 16 Oct 2023 18:18:27 -0700

Creation of Adam

Mon, 16 Oct 2023 18:17:05 -0700

Reformed Episcopal Church Book of Common Prayer Invitation to Communion:

Our fellow Christians of other branches of Christ’s Church, who have been Baptized in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, are affectionately invited to the Lord’s Table.

Mon, 16 Oct 2023 17:41:34 -0700

Whereas the Edwardian and Elizabethan divines had been interested in the Fathers chiefly as a means of proving what had or had not been the primitive doctrine and practice, the Caroline divines went farther in using the thought and piety of the Fathers within the structure of their of their own theological exposition. Their use of the Fathers had these two noteworthy characteristics. (1) Not having, as did the Continental Reformers, a preoccupation with the doctrines of justification or predestination they followed the Fathers of the Nicene Age in treating the Incarnation as the central doctrine of the faith. Indeed a feeling of the centrality of the Incarnation became a recurring feature of Anglican divinity, albeit the Incarnation was seen as S. Athanasius saw it in its deeply redemptive aspect. (2) Finding amongst the Fathers the contrast of Greek and Latin divinity, the Anglican divines could be saved from western narrowness, and were conscious that just as the ancient undivided Church embraced both East and West so too the contemporary Catholic Church was incomplete without the little known Orthodox Church of the East as well as the Church in the West, Latin, Anglican and Reformed. The study of the Fathers created the desire to reach out to Eastern Christendom. Thus did Anglican theology find in the study of the Fathers first a gateway to the knowledge of what was scriptural and primitive, subsequently a living tradition which guided the interpretation of Scripture, and finally a clue to the Catholic Church of the past and the future: in the words of Lancelot Andrewes ‘the whole Church Catholic, Eastern, Western, our own.

– Archbishop of Canterbury Michael Ramsey, “The Ancient Fathers and Modern Anglican Theology”, Sobornost, Series 4: no. 6 (Winter-Spring 1962), p. 290.

Mon, 16 Oct 2023 00:53:56 -0700

I had store credit at the local used book shop and picked this up today.

Sun, 15 Oct 2023 14:56:58 -0700

Bishop Charles Brent

Sat, 07 Oct 2023 17:33:23 -0700

50¢ thrift store find, With God in Prayer by Brent

Wed, 04 Oct 2023 09:13:35 -0700

The Address Leaf of the Early Modern Letter | Folger Shakespeare Library

The length of an address varied most widely along several axes:

Social Status: Lower status writers used plentious honorifics to address higher status recipients. The length grew shorter as the status of the writer became equal to or higher than the recipient, or when the relationship between the two grew closer.

The Recipient’s Position in Society: Any appointment(s) in government, the military, the Church, or other social institution was generally listed in the address, as were titles of nobility. As William Fullwood put it, one should place “… therwith the name of his dignitie, Lordship, Office, Nobilitie, Science, or Parentage.”

Wed, 27 Sep 2023 11:46:29 -0700

The English Portuary

Wed, 20 Sep 2023 15:54:41 -0700

On this episode of the Stand Firm podcast, Matt and Nick continue tracing the beginnings of the ACNA with Dr. Jon Shuler. On this episode, he tells the story from the foundations of the AMIA in the late 1990s to the Jerusalem GAFCON meeting in 2008.
Source: #89: ACNA Origins: The Rev. Dr. Jon Shuler (Part 2) | Stand Firm

Wed, 20 Sep 2023 10:17:13 -0700

A Catholic view of GAFCon 2023 from Fr. Timothy Matkin

Mon, 18 Sep 2023 23:05:18 -0700

Currently reading: Language in Thought and Action by S. I. Hayakawa 📚

Sat, 16 Sep 2023 18:52:52 -0700

Currently reading: The Well Wrought Urn by Cleanth Brooks 📚