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2023-12-14T17:57:53Z	**Advent’s Four Layers of Significance to the Church**
Every year the Church rehearses the works of Christ for our salvation according to a pattern that developed in late antiquity and has been transmitted in the classical Book of Common Prayer. It is significant, in at least four ways, that the Church’s liturgical year begins with the season of Advent. 1) Right after Thanksgiving […]

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2023-11-29T06:20:05Z	**Editor’s Endnotes**
This time of grave conflict in the Holy Land should prompt reflection not only upon the roots of the present strife but also on the continuity of the Christian presence and of Anglicanism too. This is an enduring witness to the Christian faith itself remembering in the words of St Jerome that,“The whole mystery of […]

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2023-11-29T05:52:01Z	**Belonging to Christ V: Called to Salvation**
Question. Dost thou not think that thou art bound to believe, and to do, as they have promised for thee?  Answer. Yes, verily; and by God’s help so I will. And I heartily thank our heavenly Father, that he hath called me to this state of salvation, through Jesus Christ our Saviour. And I pray […]

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2023-11-29T05:36:58Z	**Healey Willan, Man & Musician – Part One**
Most American Episcopalians will know the name of Healey Willan from the unison mass setting promulgated in the Hymnal 1940, the “Missa de Sancta Maria Magdalena”. Many aficionados of Anglican choral music will also recognize Willan’s name from some of the minor choral works, “Rise up, my love” and “Hodie Christus natus est” being the […]

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2023-11-28T19:02:31Z	**Worship in Scarred Spaces**
One of the few surviving medieval rood screens in England is found in a 14th-century church dedicated to St. Michael, in the hamlet of Irstead, Norfolk. The screen consists of four wooden panels brightly painted with three saints each – all defaced. St. Michael, Irstead was not unique; many of the surviving medieval English church […]

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2023-11-28T17:32:30Z	**As From the Father, So From the Son**
The filioque clause affirms that the Spirit eternally ‘proceeds from the Father and the Son’, countering the subordination of the Son with a demonstration of his coequality with the Father. From its affirmation by the Canons of the Council of Toledo in AD 589, its inclusion in the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed became increasingly widespread throughout Europe; […]

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2023-11-28T00:37:37Z	**No Health in Us?**
One of the crown jewels of the Book of Common Prayer is the General Confession in Morning and Evening Prayer.1 In theological terms, it offers a clear-eyed depiction of what Christians believe is the human condition: we are prone to curve inward away from God, we need his forgiveness. In literary terms, it is a […]

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2023-11-27T23:18:54Z	**Nomotheology**
In sundry the workes both of art and also of nature, where that which hath greatest force in the very things we see, is notwithstanding it selfe oftentimes not seene. The statelinesse of houses, the goodliness of trees, when we behold them delighteth the eye; but that foundation which beareth up the one, that root […]

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2023-11-27T22:22:20Z	**Cranmer’s Gnadenstuhl**
Among the rare survivals of English medieval art is an altarpiece in painted and gilded alabaster, made in England for the flourishing export market in such things, in the early or middle of the 15th century. Purchased in Munich in the 1830s by Lord Swansea, it is now in the Victoria and Albert Museum in […]

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2023-11-27T16:03:45Z	**Beauty in Prayer: A Response to Peter Hitchens**
One cannot help but appreciate the recent article by Peter Hitchens in The American Conservative, despite its meandering inaccuracies, for its savor of that great kernel of Anglican faith, the Book of Common Prayer.

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2023-12-28T16:54:57Z	**The Fullness of the Word**
“Grant unto thy Church, to love that Word which he believed, and both to preach and receive the same”. (Collect for St. Bartholomew, Book of Common Prayer, 1662) For much of Christian history, there have been two principal approaches to the reading of Scripture in the liturgical assembly, both of which can be traced to […]

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2024-01-02T16:01:38Z	**Triggered by the Book**
Shortly after the Restoration (1660), John Hacket officiated a funeral for a parishioner who was as opposed to the Book of Common Prayer as Hacket was devoted to it. When the Prayer Book was outlawed in Cromwell’s Commonwealth, Hacket, once refused to stop reading a service from it at gunpoint. When Charles II acceded to […]

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2024-01-02T15:39:01Z	**Public Authority of the Church**
In western societies, the terms ‘political authority’ and ‘public authority’ (derived directly from the Latin adjectives publica and politica and the noun authoritas) have long been used interchangeably, to refer to the moral power to rule: that is, to command obedient action from every member of society in the course of enacting justice on behalf […]

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2024-01-03T17:46:38Z	**A Sword That Cuts Two Ways: The Place of Tradition in Anglican Theology**
The Goldilocks Option? In the search for an Anglican theology, we cannot get far without tackling the question of tradition. Ironically, even as many churches in the Anglican Communion, especially here in America, have left tradition further and further behind, ‘tradition’ has loomed larger and larger in the self-consciousness of many Anglicans or Anglican wannabes. […]

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2024-01-03T17:12:14Z	**The Scriptual Catholicity of the Prayer Book**
My intent here1 is to speak to the Catholic side of Anglicanism’s inheritance, Catholic and Reformed. As a historian of liturgy, it seems best that I do this with a defence of the Catholicity of the Book of Common Prayer. My remarks will be divided into four unequal sections. First, I shall explain why my […]

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2024-01-03T22:48:27Z	**A Primer: Donne’s Holy Sonnet XV**
Almighty God, give us grace that we may cast away the works of darkness, and put upon us the armour of light, now in the time of this mortal life, in which thy Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility; that in the last day, when he shall come again in his […]

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2024-01-04T00:36:46Z	**Belonging to Christ VI: Called to Salvation**
Our series continues and now enters the second section drawn from the book I am His : Learningfrom the Prayer Book Catechism, All that a Christian ought to Know and Believe to his Soul’s Health. Section ii: A Faith to Believe The key to knowing ourselves, the church, the human race, the world, is in […]

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2024-01-04T00:14:37Z	**Healey Willan, Part II: Canada and A Life’s Work**
By 1911, Healey Willan was well-established in London. He was the Organist & Choirmaster at St John the Baptist, Kensington, and he had music proofreading work for Novello’s. He often deputized at All Saints’ Margaret St. for Evensong. He had a small number of private students and he conducted a number of choral societies as […]

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2024-01-05T15:43:44Z	**Editor’s Endnotes**
I look from afarAnd lo, I see the power of God coming, and a cloud covering the whole earth. Go ye out to meet him and say:Tell us, art thou he that should come to reign over thy people Israel? High and low, rich and poor, one with another,Go ye out to meet him and […]

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2024-01-26T18:35:15Z	**Liturgy is Serious Business**
Liturgy helps us remember that worship is serious business. We live in a democratic age, and we find it easy to be casual but struggle with formality and reverence. We have forgotten what it means to be a subject reverently approaching a king. But in worship, we approach the king of the universe, the holy […]

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2024-02-07T17:40:56Z	**A Roman Blessing**
A January gathering in Rome featuring the Pope and Archbishop of Canterbury might have been expected to spark controversy, as the Pontiff and Primate jointly blessed a group of 25 couples who were of the same sex. After all, Pope Francis has attracted much attention himself after approving the release only a few months ago […]

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2024-03-01T18:22:27Z	**The Reformed Context of Old High Churchmanship**
One of the things that one has to deal with is that an awful lot of clerics only get enough Church History at Seminary to be dangerous. In my self-deprecating moments, I often say that I am more of a case of being an historian with just enough theology to be dangerous, but that is […]

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2024-03-01T17:30:06Z	**Why Support The Anglican Way?**
Recent years have seen a welcome revival of interest in Classical Anglicanism. This vital tradition within Christianity is grounded in the teaching of the Scriptures, an ancient catholic heritage, and the writings of reformation divines of the 16th and 17th centuries. Its distinctive beliefs and practices find their chief expression in the Book of Common […]

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2024-03-09T22:04:54Z	**A Light That Shineth in A Dark Place**
Imagine for a minute that you have gone into an ancient house of worship, occupied by a Christian community for time immemorial. It is early in the morning; the lights have not been turned on and your eyes have not adjusted to the dim light. As you look towards the chief altar one thing stands […]

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2024-03-15T20:02:43Z	**Prayer Book or Instruction Book?**
In contrast to medieval liturgy, the Prayer Book contains many exhortations in which the presider instructs the assembly. This feature has sometimes been criticized for shifting focus from prayer to instruction, from liturgical action to doctrinal knowledge. This critique aligns with an account of Protestantism as an interiorizing movement, trading symbolically laden ceremonies and reassuring […]

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2024-03-21T16:03:46Z	**“Worship Wars” Are in the Past—the Prayer Book Tradition is the Future**
St. John’s church in Savannah was the host of our Anglican Way conference, sponsored by the Prayer Book Society of the USA, called “The Once and Future Liturgy”. As the rector of St. John’s and President of the Prayer Book Society, I would like to talk about why this conference is so meaningful for our […]

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2024-03-29T17:48:36Z	**Reading the Old Testament with the BCP**
One of the most important recoveries of classical Anglican liturgy has been the republication of the proper Sunday First Lessons from the 1662 Book of Common Prayer. Originally added to the BCP by Archbishop Parker in 1561, these lessons were removed in the 1928 revision. But happily, with publication of the International Edition of the […]

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2024-03-29T17:25:10Z	**The Prayer Book Way of Prayer and Study**
A lot has been said about the return to basics. Many writers and commentators have chosen to engage what has become a popular “sound bite” as if it were a mantra or incantation which by its very repetition will solve all our problems. Basics for Christians is not merely a matter of following a set […]

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2024-04-10T20:26:09Z	**The Promise of Regeneration**
In the liturgical revolution enacted by the 1979 Prayer Book, there were some concessions made to the liturgical conservatism of Episcopalians. Versions of the Cranmerian rites were preserved with some changes, and faux-Tudor texts were added to them, for Morning and Evening Prayer, for the Burial of the Dead, and the Eucharist. To the dismay […]

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2024-04-12T17:16:14Z	**Covenant and Koinon**
The compass rose is the symbol of the Anglican Communion. At the heart of the circular emblem is Saint George’s Cross, a reminder of the origins of the Anglican Communion. Encircling the cross is the inscription ‘The truth shall make you free’ (John 8:32). It is written in the original New Testament Greek, the traditional […]

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2024-04-14T23:10:32Z	**The Signs Are always Propitious**
The ongoing publication of the works of Robert Crouse is a welcome (perhaps urgent) invitation to encounter one of great theological minds of the past half century. For those who knew him, they are also a reminder of his unmatched capacity for clarity and wisdom in the context of what Crouse himself recognized as the […]

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2024-04-14T22:48:55Z	**Reformed and Catholic? Searching For Identity in a Rootless Church**
This address was originally given at Truro Church, Fairfax, VA in 2019. Ten years ago now, in 2009, the growing hodgepodge of congregations and bishops that protested against the spreading corruption in the Episcopal Church formally banded together to form the Anglican Church in North America. Since that time, many other churches, like lifeboats from […]

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2024-04-17T16:52:42Z	**Is the Anglican Communion Heading For A Fall?**
Humpty Dumpty might not seem the most obvious figure with which to open reflection upon the notions of communion and ecclesiology, and still less the See of Canterbury. Nonetheless, whatever obscurities may surround the origins of this great character of children’s literature and folklore, there is one thing upon which the sources are agreed, namely […]

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2024-04-17T15:58:35Z	**Belonging To Christ VII: Believe**
Our catechetical series continues, drawn now from the second section of the book, I am His: Learning from the Prayer Book Catechism, All that a Christian ought to Know and Believe to his Soul’s Health Catechist. Rehearse the Articles of thy Belief. Answer. I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth: […]

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2024-04-17T15:38:09Z	**Reflecting on the Works of Jeremy Begbie: Theology, Music and Time, and Abundantly More**
To be a committed Christian in our world, we are, of course, supposed to embrace the notion that we are no more at home in our prosperous West than were the Chosen in Egypt or Babylon. I think one can be forgiven for feeling that the Land we inhabit has never been stranger, however. This […]

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2024-04-17T15:16:27Z	**Primer: Datne as Mentor**
In all the literature of Christendom there is arguably no equal to the Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri. Dante completed the final cantos of the Paradiso on his deathbed in 1321, and from the time of its first publication until today its appeal has never faded. It is estimated that 1,100 painters and sculptors have […]

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