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This journal upholds classical Anglican theology, rooted in Scripture, the 39 Articles, and the Book of Common Prayer. Committed to social, moral, and theological orthodoxy, we explore our rich tradition to strengthen Christ’s Church with timeless wisdom, piety, and truth.
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…
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…
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…
The Joy Over One – The Third Sunday after Trinity
The King of love my Shepherd is, Whose goodness falleth never; I nothing lack if I am His, And He is mine for ever. Journeying the wilderness of Western post-modernity is not for the faint of heart. There is danger along the way. The river of despair lies ahead. The rising mountains of falsity hinder…
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…
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…
The Confession – St. Peter’s Day
They cast their nets in Galilee, Just off the hills of brown; Such happy, simple fisherfolk, Before the Lord came down, Before the Lord came down. The ground beneath our feet grows hard and weary in our journey along the ancient paths of the old Western lectionary. Our journey is interrupted with pebbles in our…
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…
Nothing Ordinary About It – The First Sunday after Trinity
Holy, holy, holy! Lord God Almighty! early in the morning our song shall rise to thee; holy, holy, holy! merciful and mighty! God in three persons, blessed Trinity! Wake up O sleeper, and rise from the dead works of this life. Awake from the slumber of your daily habits and speak daily with your Father. Shake off…
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…