He didn’t start the Church of England!
Anglican identity today is based on the supreme authority of Holy Scripture as it’s found enshrined in its historic formularies.
Anglican Arminianism and Kudzu
Arminianism in its various forms is like kudzu that has taken over the church a mile-a-minute.
The Great Ejection
Puritans were united only by their common desire for greater reform than was exhibited in the Elizabethan Settlement.
Agnes Prest
They say, that Christ is received in the mouth, and entereth in with the bread and wine: we say, that he is received in the heart, and entereth in by faith.
Cromwell, the Man Behind the Curtain
Thomas Cromwell was the man in politics behind the curtain of the English Reformation.
John Day and Foxe’s Book
John Day died July 23, 1583 after a long and constant career of promoting the Bible as God’s uniquely inspired Word.
The ACNA is “Confessional”
Our confessions/forumlaries, and subscription to them, has kept a fragile peace, but peace nonetheless, until modern times.
Christianity’s Dangerous Idea
The Bible is plain to read and plain to understand by ordinary people in all essential matters pertaining to salvation (Articles of Religion, Article 6).
The Pelagian Default
Lazarus did not come out of the grave because he got his free will in motion to choose resurrection; it was because he received an external command from God’s word, which does what it says. - Steven Paulson
Happy Radbertus Day!
The focus of historic Anglicanism is not a change in the bread and wine, but a miracle so much greater: the transformation of the faithful recipients
Mad Nun of Kent
Elizabeth Barton, known as the “Mad Nun of Kent,” was executed on April 20, 1534 - the same year that the Church of England broke its connection with the pope and the Roman Catholic Church.
Seven Last Words
Jesus hung on the cross for three hours Good Friday before he breathed his last. In that time there were seven “sayings” of Jesus, Seven Last Words, recorded in the different gospels
A Communion Table of Black Walnut
By changing "table" to "altar" in the 1979 Prayer Book and by adding the fraction anthem ("Christ our passover is sacrificed for us,” not "has been sacrificed") only shows the creeping influence of the 19th century Oxford Movement.
Elizabethan Settlement
The Elizabethan Settlement is thoroughly biblical, confessionally reformed, pastorally generous, and liturgically beautiful.
Who’s Your Righteousness?
Whole systems of religion are devised to facilitate our understanding of salvation-by-increments.
Marburg, “real presence,” and T. Cranmer
In this via media (Calvin and Cranmer), Christ’s body is objectively offered, but not objectively or automatically present apart from faith.