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FiFNA issues a Response to the Abuja Affirmation
Forward in Faith North America has issued a Response to the Abuja Affirmation. It rejects the confessional approach of many Reformed Anglicans: “To our dearly beloved brethren, the work of resetting and restoring the Communion must continue lest we become an unrooted confessional body that will melt away like a sand rope, grow into a…
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Sam Mugisha free?
Last year I noted that Sam Mugisha had been freed by the Rwandan prison system. This turned out to be wrong as Archbishop Mbanda was quick to point out to George Conger. Now according to news coming out of Rwanda it sounds like Bishop Mugisha has been cleared of the last charge against him and…
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Remembering Rick Hogaboam
Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints. Late last night I heard from a friend that Mayor Rick Hogaboam had died shockingly. I came to know Rick online 18 years ago. He had moved to Idaho after we left and was pastoring a church that our friends were at.…
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Archbishop Duncan: It’s not about Holy Orders!
Archbishop Emeritus Duncan has weighed in via a letter released by Clark Lowenfield. He goes to some length to say that the current crisis has nothing to do with Holy Orders/women’s ordination. This indicates to me that there is agitation behind the scenes on this front, or why would he feel the need to address…
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What is scholarship?
Carl Mosser’s definition: Scholarship is the product of a certain kind of activity. This activity can be done poorly or well, with varying degrees of precision and exhaustiveness, and by minds of varying cognitive abilities. This results in qualitative differences in scholarship so that one can speak in terms of a continuum of bad, mediocre,…
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Images in the Church of England
A Historical Sketch A Text by Sir Robert Phillimore [Updated and edited] The following post is excerpted from a book published in the 19th century. In the book The Principal Ecclesiastical Judgments Delivered in the Court of Arches 1867 to 1875 by the Right Hon. Sir Robert Phillimore, D.C.L., there is an interesting case that reflects…
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Clerical scandals in the 19th century
We can be tempted to think that clergy behaving badly is a uniquely modern phenomenon, but it is nothing of the sort. Edmund Wilson’s fantastic book Patriotic Gore contains letters from Calvin Ellis Stowe to his wife Harriet Beecher Stowe on the subject of prominent scandals in his day. He wrote: “I have thought much…
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Jerome on how the early church used violence
Jerome discusses bishops who had been Arian and then renounced their Arianism. Some people wanted them removed from being bishops, but Jerome says: Deprive the old bishops, they will say, and ordain new ones. The plan was tried. But how many whose conscience does not condemn them will allow themselves to be deprived. Particularly when…
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Islamic apocalyptic literature and Jews
In light of the pogrom that Hamas carried out on Israeli citizens and others, it is helpful to realize that Islamic apocalyptic literature is almost uniformly filled with hatred for Jews. Their versions of Left Behind, Late Great Planet Earth type books are full of evil towards the Jews. David Cook wrote Contemporary Muslim Apocalyptic…
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Restoration Anglican (Minneapolis) Departs UMD
Restoration Anglican (ACNA) in Minneapolis, pastored by Rick Stawarz, has departed the troubled Upper Midwest Diocese for the Diocese of the Rocky Mountains. I would speculate that this is all about Bishop Stewart Ruch’s disastrous mismanagement of past situations, including the Josh Moon debacle. The news as shared follows: Dear Restoration,I am happy to share…