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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.
Book Review: “An Invitation to the Liberal Arts”
An Invitation to the Liberal Arts: The What and Why of Classical Christian Higher Education. By Benjamin P. Myers. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2025. 122 pp. $34 (hardcover), $19 (paper). One of the defining characteristics of the classical Christian school movement up to this point has been its focus on primary and secondary education (i.e.,…
Epiphany
We are no longer at ease here, we who’ve been disturbed by the sprung rhythm of Coinherence – this Child in us, and we in Him. Like so many wise men, we mount the saints’ stair with fickle pace and laggardly gifts in tow, trekking our way up from the House of Bread. But not…
Book Review: “Feasts for the Kingdom”
Feasts for the Kingdom: Sermons for the Liturgical Year. By Khaled Anatolios. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2023. 318 pp. $19.99 (paper). In Feasts for the Kingdom, Khaled Anatolios offers the Church a gift that is increasingly rare: sustained, theologically rich, and genuinely liturgical preaching. Across forty-one homilies ordered to the feasts of the church year, Anatolios…
Joined in Birth, Life, and Suffering
On the 2nd Article of the Apostles’ Creed In our last entry we began to look into the second Article of the Apostles’ Creed, the article about our Lord Jesus Christ. As a refresher, here is that Article as presented in the first Office of Instruction in our Prayer Book (page 284). In this article…
Pursuing Christ through the Prayerbook Life
Resetting, Reforming, Renewing in Epiphany Over the past year, I have taken up the 1662 Book of Common Prayer’s daily office lectionary.1 It has a simplistic pattern long lost in the American tradition, namely, the lessons are organized by chapter, thereby making it easier for clergy and laity alike to keep up with the readings with…
Review: The Lectionary of 1662
The Lectionary of 1662, Adapted and Supplemented: The Collects, Psalms, Epistles, Gospels for the Holy Eucharist adapted from the Books of Common Prayer of 1662, 1962, and 2019, with a Supplement of Old Testament Lessons. Edited by Benjamin von Bredow & Brandon Hughes. Prayer Book Society of Canada, 2025. 433 pp. $25 (hardcover). Between the…
Faithful to the Fathers
Anglicanism and the Deuterocanonical Books Anglicans read the Deuterocanonical books because they teach us about life, faith, and Christian manners. Article VI of the 39 Articles makes it clear that these books are for instruction, not for establishing doctrine. This reflects the early Church’s approach, where the Fathers tolerated different opinions about these books while…
The Anointed Savior, Son, and Lord
A Homily on the Second Article of the Apostles’ Creed As we’ve been looking at our catechetical foundations in this series, we’ve talked about how the Apostles’ Creed gives us a summary of the Christian Faith that is both Trinitarian and Christological. Today we begin this Christological focus as we tackle Article 2 of the…
The Possibility of “Christian Socialism” [Commentary on Browne: Article XXXVIII]
Just what scope there is for “Christian communism” within the Anglican tradition ought to be clear from the text of this Article. As Browne explains, the Article rejects “the belief that all property is unlawful, and that goods in a Christian society must be common.” Given that the absence of private property is one of…
Because I Could Not Stop for Death
A Study of the Evangelical Decline of the Burial Rites in the English and American Prayer Books The writer of Ecclesiastes tells us there is “a time for every purpose under the heaven,” which includes “a time to be born, and a time to die… a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a…