Category: Religion & Spirituality
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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…
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My Big Fat English Church
Many of the traditions, texts, and theological foundations we associate with Protestantism—from the King James Bible to hymnody and classical education—can be traced back to…
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What Readers Are Saying About Reformed Monasticism
A few years back I published Reformed Monasticism: The Influence of English Asceticism on Prayer Book Spirituality on Amazon and I’ve been encouraged by the…
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Key Differences Between Anglican and Episcopal Churches in America
What’s the difference between the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Church? One of the most frequent questions I get as an Anglican priest in California…
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Intro to Anglo-Catholicism: Key Dates from the Oxford Movement and the English Catholic Revival
The Oxford Movement, also called the Catholic Revival, was a major 19th-century effort to recover the ancient catholic heritage of the Church of England. It…
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St. Benedict & Creating Your Own Personal “Rule”
Who was St. Benedict? St. Benedict of Nursia (c. 480–547) was a Christian monk who founded the Benedictine monastic tradition and wrote The Rule of…
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How Flannery O’Connor Became My Favorite Author
First Encounter with Flannery O’Connor I first encountered Flannery O’Connor in high school when Wise Blood was assigned reading for my AP English class at…
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Praying with the St. Thomas Christians
On Sunday evening, I had the joy of preaching at an evening prayer service alongside our brothers and sisters from the Church of South India,…
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I am near death
Today is day 12,707 of my life. Assuming I live to my mid-80s, more than 40% of my days are already spent. But my primary…
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On beating my children
Racing My Son—and beating him—every day 📖 “Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So…
