with Richard Turnbull.  Richard is the Principal of Wycliffe Hall, Oxford.  For the past 4-5 years St. Andrew’s has hosted seminarians from Wycliffe for their summer placement and I’d never had the chance to meet him.  He’d emailed me earlier in the week telling me he was coming to town and we were able to [...]

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Former Trinity professor and current Vice Chancellor of Uganda Christian University , Stephen Noll, has waded into the conversation regarding the SC Supreme Court decision, particularly its application to SC parishes.  Below you will find the clip of Stephen’s comments from this comment string.  His response was made to the question posed by a woman named [...]

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I believe, and have advocated for quite a while, that the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) is the best way forward for Anglicanism in North America.  Of particular interest today is this Article from their Constitution: ARTICLE XII: OWNERSHIP OF PROPERTY All church property, both real and personal, owned by each member congregation now and [...]

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got around to reading the recent article in Christianity Today on John Calvin, John Calvin: Comeback Kid.  Of course, readers of this blog will know that J.C. forms one of the two uprights on my goal post of faith; Martin Luther being the other.  Here’s a clip from the into: There is evidence, however, that [...]

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The Anglican Curmudgeon has this fine analysis on the SC Supreme Court ruling regarding parish property in SC.  Here’s the money: And that, folks, is all that needs to be said about the Dennis Canon in South Carolina. Parishes there, so long as they have not adopted or made themselves subject to the Dennis Canon [...]

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Bishop Chuck Murphy of The Anglican Mission in the Americas (AMiA) made the following comments to the American Anglican Council regarding today’s ruling by the Supreme Court of South Carolina. They are being released with Bishop Murphy’s permission: In addition to being a complete victory for all of us here at All Saints, Pawleys Island, [...]

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I’m not a lawyer so I may be wrong, but I don’t think I am, this is a complete reversal of the lower court rulings. It seems to read that Bishop Salmon overstepped his bounds; that the 2000 filing of the Dennis Canon in Georgetown County courthouse was inappropriate and that the Dennis Canon has [...]

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Do you ever wonder how observant people are?  I do.  And so, I did a little experiment.  I wore the exact same pair of stone-colored dress chinos (thanks to Jos. A Bank – for anyone interested, gift cards are always welcomed by the author) for 21 consecutive days.  Without being washed.  Just to see who’d [...]

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Hey there, Delilah – the story from Samson’s point of view – song starts at 59 seconds:

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Question 68: How many sacraments has Christ instituted in the new covenant? Answer: Two: namely, baptism, and the Lord’s Supper (a). Matthew 28.18-20: And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name [...]

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