It just occurred to me that the first generation Anglican leaders in America were pragmatists, not theologians. The second generation Anglican bishops were solidly grounded theologians and wildly successful missionary bishops.

“It’s not about you, stop your navel-gazing, get down from the pillar, get a job at the factory and live for God there!”

Have you ever wondered why some churches have painted red doors? This used to be true of virtually all Episcopal and Anglican churches.

Grunewald was secretly a follower of Martin Luther whose writings were found among his effects after he died.

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

I eavesdropped on a conversation once in which a very nice lady said, “I love being Episcopalian; you can believe anything and still be one!”

When I think Little Bilney, as he was called, I can’t help but think of Fitz Allison.

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.

I’ve always wanted to know why the Church of England started with a firm commitment to moderate Calvinism, but after Edward VI, Elizabeth I, and James I the colors of our flag changed to Arminian (called “Pelagian” in Article 9, and by the anti-Arminians of that century).

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!

There is no unbroken line of ordained bishops and priests traceable back to St. Peter. This is simply confusing the symbol for the thing symbolized.

It would be hard to overestimate the influence of Martin Luther on the theology of the Church of England.

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.

Rotary Club religion, the so-called “social gospel” or “liberation theology,” makes Christianity into some social reform movement and uses Christ as a motivational tool.

Cranmer taught two positions simultaneously: that Christ is spiritually present in the Eucharist, and through faithful contemplation we are reunited with the whole Christ in heaven by the power of the Holy Spirit.

The Roman Catholic doctrine of "papal infallibility" was adopted July 18, 1870 at the First Vatican Council (1869–1870).

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

While in prison, 17-year old Jane was visited by Mary’s personal chaplain, John de Fenenham, who tried to persuade her of the truth of Roman Catholicism, perhaps with the hope of saving her life.