Perhaps the best marker for the beginning of the English Reformation is not Erasmus, Martin Luther or Thomas Cranmer, but John Wyclif.

If we get better or not, doesn't change God's love for us, and if we know this, we will certainly get better.

His letter to Queen Elizabeth pointed out why she was wrong to suppress public preaching and asked her to keep her nose out of the spiritual government of the church.

John Jewel expressed the majority view of the English reformers when he called Parker “a holy anchor unto me and others.”

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.

Several years ago I was invited to address a group in Phoenix on the difference between Catholics and Protestants. After affirming my agreement with them on many things, I told them that I couldn’t ever become Catholic because of “justification.”

Vermigli makes sense of Holy Communion in the light of salvation by grace through faith alone, and the priesthood of Christ who is both the only Sacrifice, and the once-and-for-all Sacrificer for the sins of the world (1 Tim 2:5; Heb 8, 10).

Phillips Brooks was everyone's pastor! He was the shy, towering 19th century Episcopal rector of Boston's Trinity Church and briefly the Bishop of Massachusetts.

Since it was handwritten in Italian on a spaghetti-stained napkin by a sick man, I have taken the liberty of translating a portion of it into English.

“When we begin to worship as a gathered community each week, we aren’t starting from scratch. We’re jumping into heaven’s praise on the third verse of the song.”

Pascal was saved on this day in 1654 and he took his salvation with him everywhere he went.

Richard Baxter was big enough to have big faults and make big errors.

The Medieval Catholic Church injected itself as another mediator and the gatekeeper of God's grace.

Michael Nazir-Ali did the right thing if his heart is not fixed on Anglican’s commitment to the primacy of Holy Scripture, and to the doctrines of justification by grace through faith alone, the universal priesthood of all believers, and to a sacramental understanding that expresses these core biblical teachings.

Given the very oddball personalities responsible for founding the Episcopal Church, it is a miracle that there are any Anglicans in America today!

Maybe there will be an afternoon tea in heaven where Lewis and and Joy Davidman can meet with those who know and love God because God used them in this way. 

When he awoke Easter morning 1779 the words on his lips and in his heart were, "Jesus Christ is risen today: Hallelujah! Hallelujah!!" 

It is the greatest curiosity that some Anglicans hold a functionally Roman view - that the substance of the bread and wine of Holy Communion change into the body, blood, and soul of our Lord when magic words are spoken over them by a fancy-dressed priest.

Oopsie, someone forgot to mention them in the ACNA Constitution and Canons, the 2020 Catechism, or Gafcon’s Jerusalem Declaration - in effect guaranteeing that they will be forgotten by yet another generation of Anglicans.

Roman Catholics and Protestants share some Christian creedal beliefs, of course, but they differ on at least two deal-breaking matters.