Joe Mahler (pictured immediately below), Donald Philip Veitch picture at bottom) and crew.  If you're investigating Anglicanism, please accept both my theological and pastoral advice, and stay far away from these people.  And please don't become an Anglican if you're really nothing more than a Presbyterian.   ..read more

From Fr. Mark Marshall.  A must read. "Still, one of the arguments for modernizing worship and the use of Christian sacred spaces is to be more relevant to emerging generations.  But that is backwards, and the kids know it.  If the church waters down its worship and becomes more like the world, it becomes less relevant and less attractive.  The world is already much better at being like the world than the church — although God knows most of the Western church is trying to catch up.  So how is the church being like the world relevant?  Especially during times like ..read more

I have only recently heard about the writings of Rosaria Butterfield. I'm going to have to read more of her.    Wake up, AMiA, ACNA, and the rest of you Neo-Anglicans.  The historic Catholic and Anglican faith is inescapably patriarchal and not in any way feminist or even egalitarian, and when you ordain women to the ranks of clergy, you commit a horrific act.  Her bio: "Rosaria Butterfield, a former tenured professor of English and women’s studies at Syracuse University, converted to Christ in 1999 in what she describes as a train wreck. Her memoir The Secret Though ..read more

*This.* I said *this* from the get-go.  Here's my archive.  From the article: It’s been a year since the beginning of the Asbury “revival” in Wilmore, Kentucky. Last year, from February 8th to February 24th, up to 70,000 people visited Asbury University’s chapel to experience what they called an “outpouring,” an “awakening,” or a “revival.”  For two weeks many of the tens of thousands of people who visited Asbury responded to alter calls and witnessed “prophecies”, “speaking in tongues”, “casting out demons”, and “faith healing” at the chapel. It was one of the biggest news st ..read more

This audio clip comes from a recording done at Mission Viejo Vineyard in 1994, when Hunter was the National Coordinator of Vineyard Churches.  Spend a few minutes listening to this carefully and then read the commentary at YouTube site hosting the clip. This, folks, is the modern charismatic movement, and it slithered under the door of American Episcopalianism and the Church of England back in the 60s and 70s.  From there it made its way into the so-called "Anglican Realignment":  The Anglican Mission in America (AMiA), the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) and other "Thre ..read more

From Gerry Neal, writing at Throne, Altar, Liberty:  Ordinary Authority, the Apostolic Priesthood, Orthodox Anglicanism and Women’s Ordination Mr. Atkinson is the "Apologist In Residency" of sorts at Virtue Online.  You can follow him in the comments section there, where he serves as moderator.  He and David Virtue have been generally critical of Fr. Calvin Robinson's raising the issue of women's ordination at the 2024 Mere Anglicanism Conference, which led to his dismissal from the panel discussion.  In his blog entry, Mr. Neal responds to Atkinson's bizarre argument in de ..read more

The Day the Gloves Came Off: An End to Detente in the ACNA, The North American Anglican It was a boneheaded move. With one conversation at Mere Anglicanism in South Carolina, the debate over the ordination of women in the Anglican Church in North America has been reignited and forever changed, perhaps in ways that will prove historic. The proponents of the ordination of women had played all their cards, and what we saw, we can’t unsee. The Rev. Jeffrey Miller, director of the Mere Anglicanism Conference, and the Rt. Rev. Chip Edgar, his bishop, called Father Calvin Robinson into the green room ..read more

First Things Though Tolkien called Lewis an "Ulster Protestant", and maybe he was, Lewis' thinking was shaped in large part by the Early Church Fathers and the medieval spirit, so on one level at least he can be called a Catholic.  It's one reason he is so popular with Roman Catholics, Anglo-Catholics and Orthodox.  This fascinating comparison between him and English historian Eamon Duffy, who is Roman Catholic, should not be missed ..read more

And for that he deserves full credit. That's what a man does. We pray an apology will be forthcoming from the Mere Anglicanism Conference. I will archive my posts about Bishop Farmer's sermon ..read more

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