Category: Religion & Spirituality
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The Paradox of the Traditional Leader – Good Pope John and Celestine V
Success and Failure in Traditional Catholic Leadership “Tradition! Tradition!” Tevye shouts in Fiddler on the Roof, invoking the religious and cultural code that keeps his…
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Leadership and David
Leadership and the Demands of the Moment Leadership never exists in a vacuum. It changes depending on what a culture needs at a particular time.…
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Anglican Worship Explained: Resources on the Daily Office and Holy Communion
One of the great strengths of the Anglican tradition is its commitment to ordered, biblical, and formative worship. For those seeking a deeper understanding of…
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Is the Episcopacy a “Divine Right”? (Bishops)
In the Anglican tradition, we often speak about the Church in terms of denominations, yet I find myself increasingly skeptical of “denominationalism.” Although I belong…
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Reflections on the “Called & Consecrated” Discernment Conference (Fresno, CA – Nov 2025)
Yesterday, I drove down to Fresno to attend the Called & Consecrated, a discernment conference hosted by the Anglican Diocese of San Joaquin. The speakers…
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The Mystery of Love, Mary, and the Sacrament of Marriage: Anglican Reflections on Schmemann
This week in our parish catechesis we explored one of the richest sections of Alexander Schmemann’s For the Life of the World and his meditation…
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Why Anglicans Can’t Agree: Evangelical, Anglo-Catholic, Liberal, Holiness — Who’s Right?
For more than a century, the Lambeth Quadrilateral (1888) has been treated as the closest thing Anglicans have to a universal definition of our identity.…
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Historic Episcopacy and the Catholic Deposit of Faith
In the next section of his book (pp. 20–28), Cirlot turns to those who stop short of denying Apostolic Succession outright, yet contend that because…
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St. Michael’s Lent for Anglicans
St. Michael’s Lent is devotional Fast from the Feast of St. Mary the Virgin to Michaelmas In the early thirteenth century, St. Francis of Assisi…
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Through Old Eyes
Growing Up with Glasses and an Eye Injury I visited the optometrist this week for the first time in a few years. Just a routine…
