Whitsunday is the older English name for Pentecost. And there's a sermon about it in the Second Book of Homilies. That sermon explains the significance of Pentecost, gives a short teaching on the person of the Holy Spirit, and then discusses the gifts of the Spirit....

This title probably sounds boring to a lot of people. Don't worry. I will get back to refuting the arguments for women's ordination soon enough. But this post is necessary foundation work. "Natural Law" is enjoying something of a renaissance, particularly among...

The recent meeting of the Global Anglicans in Abuja, Nigeria has left a little bit of confusion. What exactly happened there? I will come back to that in future essays and installments. But at least one thing came out of the meeting that was very good. In the "Abuja...

What's more classic than a Reformed vs. Lutheran debate on the doctrine of the Lord's Supper? Well, I will try to keep it friendly, even as I want to skeptically interrogate a recent Lutheran discussion on the real presence. Andrew Packer is an old online acquaintance...

In the debates over women's ordination, a historically decisive passage in the New Testament is 1 Timothy 2:11-15. It is so direct that critics call it a "clobber passage." And indeed, some critics argue that it says much more than even very conservative...

At the end of the Book of Common Prayer's liturgy for Holy Communion there are a series of rubrics. Rubrics are usually stage instructions, but occasionally they provide further explanations. One of these even gives a robust theological explanation of the real...

The classic 1662 Book of Common Prayer calls for the Athanasian Creed to be read in the Morning Prayer liturgy at least thirteen times throughout the year. Notably, it is to be read on Christmas and Easter. The Athanasian Creed also shows up in the Thirty Nine...

I just want to make a quick observation and leave a link for public benefit. John Davenant, 17th cent. Bishop of Salisbury, has this to say about the original apostles of Christ: Wherefore when the Prophets, and Apostles are adorned with this honorable Title, it is...

Now that we are reading the Constitution and Canons of the Anglican Church in North America, let's check to see what they do and do not say about the question of women's ordination. I confess that this is an issue that I myself haven't always had a clear handle on....

There's a lot of confusion in the ACNA world. This is known. But what is not as well known is that a lot of the confusion could be resolved by simply reading the various written documents which we say are authoritative. One of them, expressly named by the ACNA...