Arminianism in its various forms is like kudzu that has taken over the church a mile-a-minute.

John Day died July 23, 1583 after a long and constant career of promoting the Bible as God’s uniquely inspired Word.

He killed Protestants who threatened the Roman Catholic air he breathed. Up until the very end of his life he resisted the Reformation’s central idea of justification by grace through faith alone.

Who was responsible for the 16th century Reformation in England? Johannes Gutenberg! Well not singlehandedly, of course, but the German entrepreneur and inventor certainly contributed substantially to the perfect storm.

If heads are bowing in the direction of the altar (communion table) as a sacred piece of furniture where the magic of transforming bread and wine is performed, you can be sure that Laud has been in that place.

When we recognize the Grand Canyon-size gulf between us and God, we are forced to look for a solution beyond our human capacity and righteousness: to a God who saves us to the uttermost - who alone has the power to bring dead people back to life.

John Jewel expressed the majority view of the English reformers when he called Parker “a holy anchor unto me and others.”

It was the long-reigning Queen (the "Elizabethan Settlement") that fixed the Church of England's identity once-and-for-all to the historic formularies of Reformation Anglicanism: the two books of Homilies, the 1571 Thirty-nine Articles of Religion, and the 1559/1662 Book of Common Prayer.

There are so many contradictions in it, how can an intelligent person possibly believe it?

Hugh Latimer famously said, “The founding of monasteries argued Purgatory to be, so the putting them down argueth it not to be.”

Gutenberg made learning possible and fashionable, a dangerous proposition for the establishment that was heavily invested in keeping people ignorant.

The "Great Ejection" refers to 1,800 evangelical/puritan Church of England ministers who were expelled from their pulpits by law following the Act of Uniformity of 1662.

The journey that makes for our union with Christ is not “us to him,” but Jesus’s journey from heaven to rescue us - the Incarnation.

Given the oddball personalities who formed the Episcopal Church, it is something of a miracle that there are Anglicans in America today!

Cromwell kept a mentally erratic and disturbed king functional, while helping the Church of England towards a definition that, within a decade of his death, would be grounded in the Anglican formularies.

John Keble fussed at the nation for not behaving more like the Old Testament prophet Samuel, and see what happened!

There are countless stories of people sitting in church pews, or picking up a Gideon Bible in a hotel room in a moment of boredom or desperation, or challenged by a friend to read the gospel of John, and while doing so, they discover the God whose story it tells.

The English Reformation was just a bump in the road. Inconsequential, really.