Catholics generally hated William because he had secured the British Isles for Protestantism, and Protestant students hated the little, sickly man on a horse statue because the horse's rear end was aimed at Trinity College.

Today, whenever I reach that place in our Anglican liturgy, I remember that what we are doing is far more important than just what "we" are doing.

God himself is the consecrator of the elements of Holy Communion, not a fancy-dressed holy man mumbling unintelligible words and raising a host at a high altar for the peasants to see.

Who cause the Reformation? Erasmus did.

Thank your bishop for being the defender of the faith he was consecrated to be for the sake of the faith of our church.

Jane Seymour gave King Henry VIII his only living legitimate son, the future King Edward VI.

The psychology of decisionism, revivalism, moralism, progressivism, and a generally sunnier outlook on human capacity appeals to the most base elements of human nature - we all love the idea that performance contributes to our salvation.

I am praying for Michael Nazir-Ali this morning that God will use him to show the folks in the Ordinariate the beauty and freedom of the gospel of salvation by grace alone.

The sacrament’s proper focus was not the transformation of the elements, but of the human will. (Ashley Null)

When people read the Bible for themselves they are led to consider the character and story of God, and his solution for the guilt, shame and restlessness that every man, woman and child carries with them before they know the rest that God supplies.

Calvinism and Arminianism are not two views of a car accident that eventually meet up at some evangelistic crusade in Minneapolis.

Andrewes, who was Laudian Arminian in his theology, still believed that the righteousness that saves is not self-righteousness (or infused/inherent righteousness), but the righteousness of Christ credited to the account of undeserving sinners.

If there is no purity of faith, there is no catholicity.

A person’s ability to worship is a matter of heart, and a good-hearted Christian can worship at the tin-roofed Cathedral in Jos, Nigeria as easily as at Westminster Abby.

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

Keep us, O Lord, constant in faith and zealous in witness, that, like your servants Hugh Latimer, Nicholas Ridley, Thomas Cranmer, and the other English reformers,

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

More was bold and confident in her convictions, a rare trait for 19th century women, and a woman of obvious Christian grace.

Her greatest influence for reformation in England might well have been the impact she had on Henry's children, Elizabeth and Edward.

September 5, 1538 Thomas Cromwell’s “Second Royal Injunctions of Henry VIII” ordered that a Bible be placed in every church in England.