Anglican Christians without Canterbury?
Dr. Charles Erlandson’s book, Orthodox Anglican Identity: The Quest for Unity in a Diverse Religious Tradition (Wipf and Stock: 2020) is a well thought through effort to mark out a meaningful definition for theologically orthodox Anglicanism. (Buy on Amazon) Erlandson recognizes the increasing difficulty in defining Anglicanism and acknowledges the existence of various and often insufficient answers provided throughout the fractured global Anglican Communion. Erlandson posits his narrowed definition of orthodox Anglicanism as a response to a “naturalistic and man-centered worldview” found in the theological liberalism of the modern Episcopal Church (TEC). The challenge...
How Benedictine Spirituality Came to Celtic Christianity and the English Church
The formalization of religious monasticism into the fabric of Christian identity coincided with the collapse of the Roman Empire. Historians mark the year 476...
Prayerbook Asceticism
The Anglican Book of Common Prayer reintroduces a monastic identity to the Church in England in two significant ways.
First, it’s nearly the same...
The Optimistic Ebb and Flow of Moorman’s History
Dr. John R. H. Moorman’s book A History of the Church in England (A&C Black: 1953) outlines nearly two millennia of the Church’s history...
Jesus Heals a Deaf Man (St. Mark 7:31)
Lower Chapel at Canterbury Christian School for January 19, 2021.
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Monks and Monasticism in the Anglican Tradition
The bones of the monastic hours can certainly be found in Cranmer’s daily offices, but what influence did monasticism have on the development of...
Epiphany Blessing 2021- Chalking the Door
Following sung matins at Saint Paul’s – students and teachers join us in front of the Church for the blessing of the doors for...
Perks of Church Planting with Alcoholics Anonymous
Yesterday, I celebrated Holy Communion for a congregation in California’s Central Coast. They are recently without a minister and are in the process of...
Are you Anglican or Episcopalian?
I recently transferred as a priest from a Continuing Anglican jurisdiction into the Reformed Episcopal Church.
To which many have asked, whats the difference...
“The English Church Before It Was Roman”
Did Anglicanism begin with Henry VIII? How did Christianity get to the British Isles? What is Celtic Christianity?
On the Feast of St. George...
