He didn’t start the Church of England!
Anglican identity today is based on the supreme authority of Holy Scripture as it’s found enshrined in its historic formularies.
Agnes Prest
They say, that Christ is received in the mouth, and entereth in with the bread and wine: we say, that he is received in the heart, and entereth in by faith.
Cromwell, the Man Behind the Curtain
Thomas Cromwell was the man in politics behind the curtain of the English Reformation.
The ACNA is “Confessional”
Our confessions/forumlaries, and subscription to them, has kept a fragile peace, but peace nonetheless, until modern times.
Elizabethan Settlement
The Elizabethan Settlement is thoroughly biblical, confessionally reformed, pastorally generous, and liturgically beautiful.
The Making of a Protestant England
William Perkins defined theology as “the science of living blessedly forever.” “Science” shows the seriousness and care he gave to classical learning. And “living blessedly forever” reveals his commitment to applied Protestant piety.
Wonky Legacy of Charles Gore
Charles Gore was a shaky wall of feel-good progressivism unanchored to anything permanent, that continues prominent in Anglicanism today.
All Those Contradictions!
The Anglican formularies give us an “Anglican way” of reading and interpreting Holy Scripture.
Bloody Mary
It was the long-reigning Queen (the "Elizabethan Settlement") that fixed the Church of England's identity once-and-for-all to the historic formularies of Reformation Anglicanism: the two books of Homilies, the 1571 Thirty-nine Articles of Religion, and the 1559/1662 Book of Common Prayer.
Richard Baxter’s Holy Living
Richard Baxter was big enough to have big faults and make big errors.
Happy Guy Fawkes Day!
Roman Catholics and Protestants share some Christian creedal beliefs, of course, but they differ on at least two deal-breaking matters.
Thank your Bishop
Thank your bishop for being the defender of the faith he was consecrated to be for the sake of the faith of our church.
Jacobus Arminius!
The psychology of decisionism, revivalism, moralism, progressivism, and a generally sunnier outlook on human capacity appeals to the most base elements of human nature - we all love the idea that performance contributes to our salvation.
The Bible and the Caveman
When people read the Bible for themselves they are led to consider the character and story of God, and his solution for the guilt, shame and restlessness that every man, woman and child carries with them before they know the rest that God supplies.
Wesley or Whitefield: That is the Question
Calvinism and Arminianism are not two views of a car accident that eventually meet up at some evangelistic crusade in Minneapolis.
Lancelot Andrewes
Andrewes, who was Laudian Arminian in his theology, still believed that the righteousness that saves is not self-righteousness (or infused/inherent righteousness), but the righteousness of Christ credited to the account of undeserving sinners.
Anglicans Interpret the Bible
There are so many contradictions in it, how can an intelligent person possibly believe it?
Reformation Sunday
Keep us, O Lord, constant in faith and zealous in witness, that, like your servants Hugh Latimer, Nicholas Ridley, Thomas Cranmer, and the other English reformers,