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When Winfrith Cut the Oak Tree Down

This is a place I love to sit. These planks play host to something new. The knots and lines and pools of gold… We thought it strange, when it was built. That knot looks like a screaming face. The day he cut the oak tree down I knew that he must die. “A god lives…

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Book Review: “Versing the Mystery”

Versing the Mystery. By Christopher Villiers. Waterloo, ON: Arouca Press, 2024. 202 pp. $19.95 (paperback). Poetry has been long believed to hold mystical, even sacred powers. Up until the modern period, it has historically held more reverence and cultural sway than prose. As James Matthew Wilson asserts in The Fortunes of Poetry in an Age…

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The North American Anglican is coming under the umbrella of American Reformer

We are thrilled to announce a significant new chapter for The North American Anglican! In recent years, American Reformer has proven itself to be a steadfast defender of orthodox, biblical Christianity across the American Protestant landscape. As The North American Anglican brings the distinct insights of the Anglican context to the efforts of Christian renewal…

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An Underlying Unity

The Genius of Anglicanism Although Anglicanism has long had ‘Low’ and ‘High’ Church parties, there was, until the late-19th century an underlying theology that united them.  The ‘High’ and ‘Low’ concepts of churchmanship were very largely a product of which elements of the English Reformed tradition they chose to emphasize.  In terms of the way…

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Another Look at St. Mary the Virgin in Anglican Tradition

The Anglican Tradition, St. Mary the Virgin, and the prudential divide between pious opinion and requisite belief A recent article at the North American Anglican regarding St. Mary the Virgin’s place in the Anglican tradition blessed the reader with a palpable love of the Book of Common Prayer and a rarely seen expertise in the…

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Brand Progressive

What Accreditation Really Says About Your School What you wear says something about you. So does who you associate with. When I was headmaster of a classical preparatory school, I noticed some students wearing Abercrombie & Fitch outside of school hours. I challenged their choice. A&F, I told them, doesn’t just sell clothes—it sells a…

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Mary in the Anglican Tradition

  In some senses, this essay is the fruit of a biblical theology that stretches back a couple of decades. Studying biblical typology predates my love of theology, liturgy, or really anything other than Christ himself. In another sense though, this is my effort to remove Marian ideas from the exclusive sphere of Roman Catholic…

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