Embarrassed By the Gospel
by Carl R. TruemanA recent document regarding worship in Church of England schools tries to marry Christian worship to the spirit of this present age. Continue Reading »
Lessons From Ronald Knox
by Sohrab AhmariMonsignor Ronald Knox lived such an outstanding life that one can’t but feel the utter inadequacy of one’s own next to its record. Continue Reading »
Letters
by VariousI don’t suppose it will be easy for Carl Trueman (“Turning Inward,” December 2019) and me to avoid talking past each other, but let’s give it a try. My book, The Meaning of Protestant Theology, is not an effort to engage with secondary literature. (Gerhard Forde? Never read him; don’t . . . . Continue Reading »
My Excommunication
by Charles L. GlennIn 1992, a group of dissident bishops of the American Episcopal Church held a meeting after that denomination’s triennial general convention—the notorious convention whose delegates had failed to agree upon a resolution calling for bishops and priests to be sexually continent outside of . . . . Continue Reading »
Briefly Noted
by Moriah SpecialeA Field Guide to the English Clergy: A Compendium of Diverse Eccentrics, Pirates, Prelates and Adventurers; All Anglican, Some Even Practising by fergus butler-gallie oneworld, 192 pages, $20 Ah, the holy fool. Though we often associate such characters with the great tomes of Russian . . . . Continue Reading »
Briefly Noted
by Moriah SpecialeA Field Guide to the English Clergy: A Compendium of Diverse Eccentrics, Pirates, Prelates and Adventurers; All Anglican, Some Even Practising by fergus butler-gallie oneworld, 192 pages, $20 Ah, the holy fool. Though we often associate such characters with the great tomes of Russian . . . . Continue Reading »
Bishop Bell Vindicated
by Peter HitchensCondemnations of Bishop George Bell served the purpose of a Church trying hard to look decisive and stern about priestly abuse—a problem it has in fact handled very badly. Continue Reading »
Baptizing the Spirit of the Age
by Matthew Lee AndersonThe new “Affirmation of Baptismal Faith” erodes the Church of England’s claim to bear witness to the one God, the Father Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth. Continue Reading »
Whose Synodality?
by Ephraim RadnerPerhaps there is something that Catholics and Anglicans can learn from each other about “synodality.” But we have to be serious about what and who we are talking about. Continue Reading »
The Monster's Servant
by Richard RexThomas Cromwell: A Revolutionary Life by diarmaid macculloch viking, 752 pages, $40 They said it could not be done. At least Sir Geoffrey Elton, to whose memory his former doctoral student has dedicated this book, said it could not be done. According to him, as Diarmaid MacCulloch reminds us, . . . . Continue Reading »
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