Father Mike and St. Augustine on the Real Presence
Father Mike Schmitz is a Roman Catholic influencer priest. He has done other things, and so I don’t mean to diminish him with that description. He has been ordained as…
Father Mike Schmitz is a Roman Catholic influencer priest. He has done other things, and so I don’t mean to diminish him with that description. He has been ordained as…
My recent post on the women’s ordination in the ACNA has been passed around a decent amount. I’ve gotten a lot of direct feedback, and I thought I would quickly…
In Book 10 of City of God, St. Augustine contrasts the way that Christians worship God only and the way that the Platonists worship angels and other heavenly powers. The…
Many people are surprised to learn that it has been entirely common for Protestant theologians to claim the early church fathers as positive support for their doctrine of the eucharist,…
The Anglican Church in North America is a house divided on the question of women’s ordination. It has been this way since its inception. I think early on, the assumption…
A few years ago I wrote a historical study of the Ash Wednesday service in the Anglican tradition. The big surprise was that no ashes were used until very recently.…
What did the Presbyterians who met in 1788 intend regarding political theology? If the amended Confession did fundamentally change the church’s ostensible relationship to the state, did even a conception…
Two poems based on Psalm 130.
