Former AMiA and C4SO priest Jay Greener who was investigated and resigned in 2022 has now emerged in the odd Kevin Donlon led group “the Anglican Union.” The Anglican Union split from what is left of AMiA for reasons unknown. When he resigned, the public statement from C4SO said: Because he is canonically resident in […]
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The Jesus Movement of the 60’s and 70’s
People are talking about the Jesus Movement a lot again lately. It is a subject that endlessly fascinates me as I grew up on the tail end of it as a kid. My memories of it are just hazy, but still it was something of the water that we swam in back then. Keith Green […]
Is Fame Good?
Is fame ever good for anyone? Or does it ultimately poison and destroy anyone who achieves it? Fame meaning not just Hollywood, Nashville, or Broadway, but being the famous professor who shakes up the field, the pastor who has a huge church and influence, or the politician who makes a mark. In his book The […]
Ignatius on the Judaizers
The New Perspective on Paul has stressed the nature of the conflict between the Judaizers who insisted on the Sinatic definition of Israel and Paul and others who stressed the Abrahamic (by faith) nature of Israel. I thought the following extracts from Ignatius also shed some light on this conflict in the early church: The […]
The Wyatt Prayer Book
The Wyatt Prayer Book contains ten prayers of uncertain origin. You can read an article about the possible ties of Anne Boleyn to the book here. I formatted the text you will see in the PDF. The translator was Olivia Peyton.
Pia Desideria
A few quotes from this book by Jacob Philipp Spener: …the study of theology should be carried on not by the strife of disputations but rather by the practice of piety. (Dr. David Chytraeus) “Beware! Satan has the intention of detaining you with unnecessary things and thus keeping you from those which are necessary. Once […]
Pontoppidan on Modern Christians
We pretend to be the followers of the first Christians. But could we imagine that these professors of the truth in Jerusalem, Antioch, Rome, etc., were a people of such mind and such manners as the great multitude among us at the present day? Equally terrible, lavish, voluptuous, miserly, thieving, harlot-like, drunken, false and cunning? […]
James Jordan: From Land to City
What follows are some notes from this excellent lecture by James Jordan. After A.D. 70 we have the city. In Revelation the city appears. From A.D. 30-70 the Bride is made ready, goes through tribulation, and the city comes at that point. A.D. 70 is the first coming of Jesus. The shift from land to […]
ACNA: Husch Blackwell, Greenhouse, and GuideOne Insurance
The long-awaited report on sexual misconduct in the Upper Midwest Diocese of the ACNA has been released. There is much to digest in the report, but one situation that receives mention on pages 38-39 could have wider implications. That is the apparent lying on an insurance application which the Greenhouse organization submitted to GuideOne Insurance. […]
Objections to the Bible: the death of Judas Iscariot
For some, the accounts of the death of Judas Iscariot reveal contradictions in the scriptural text. Again I have to ask the question: were the first Christians really so stupid that they didn’t notice these supposed contradictions? The arrogance of the modern really shines through in some textual criticism. The basic accounts are in Matthew […]