The Medieval Church had grown to be too rich, too powerful, and too corrupt: a far cry from what the fishermen of Galilee had intended.

Reformation Anglicanism has very serious scholarly proponents, here and around the world, but only a few popular voices.

The Tractarians came to challenge, then shatter the doctrinal consensus of the earlier High Church Anglicanism, seeming to dissolve the Church of England into its constituent parts as never before.

It is coffee-hour banter that throws water on our Anglican distinctives.

A “priestly character” is imputed to the make an ordinary Christian into a super-Christian

He killed Protestants who threatened the Roman Catholic air he breathed. Up until the very end of his life he resisted the Reformation’s central idea of justification by grace through faith alone.

The Dead Sea scrolls gives us the Old Testament 1,000 years closer to its original autograph!

There is a generosity in historic Anglicanism that distinguishes gospel issues from adiaphora (matters indifferent): essentials from nonessentials.

He must have been a monster criminal to deserve such a horrible death. John Rogers was the first of 282 Protestants killed by Mary Tudor ("Bloody Mary").

Who was responsible for the 16th century Reformation in England? Johannes Gutenberg! Well not singlehandedly, of course, but the German entrepreneur and inventor certainly contributed substantially to the perfect storm.

The "ad fontes" (back to the sources) cry of the Renaissance and 16th century Humanism drove Erasmus like a wild obsession to write and publish the first edition of the Greek New Testament from ancient sources, "Novum Testamentum.”

To a great extent the 1549 Prayer Book was a translation of Bucer’s liturgy for Cologne. The term "Book of Common Prayer" comes from Bucer, and many of the changes made in the 1552 edition are thanks to him.

Christians love semi-pelagianism because we don't want to admit that the corpse on the couch is actually dead, but only faint and needing some fresh air.

John Berridge was a very odd person, a comet rather than a planet, a man who must be put in a class by himself.

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.

Charles Gore was a shaky wall of feel-good progressivism unanchored to anything permanent, that continues prominent in Anglicanism today.

If heads are bowing in the direction of the altar (communion table) as a sacred piece of furniture where the magic of transforming bread and wine is performed, you can be sure that Laud has been in that place.

The Anglican formularies give us an “Anglican way” of reading and interpreting Holy Scripture.

When we recognize the Grand Canyon-size gulf between us and God, we are forced to look for a solution beyond our human capacity and righteousness: to a God who saves us to the uttermost - who alone has the power to bring dead people back to life.

There is no reason to doubt Elizabeth’s essential and unwavering Protestantism, and her personal commitment to the historic Anglican formularies.