In the London Review of Books, Adam Phillips reviews Benjamin Taylor’s book, Proust: The Search. Phillips says of Proust: …In Search of Lost Time, about someone wanting to write a book he doesn’t write, is itself about the ways our objects of desire sustain us by failing to satisfy us. Phillips summarizes Proust as thinking […]
Prayer to saints in the Book of Homilies
The Anglican Book of Homilies discusses the folly of prayer to saints in the Homily on Prayer. I have slightly cleaned up and modernized the language of a portion of this homily and offer it as follows: Thus you see, that the authority both of the Scripture, and also of Augustine, does not permit, that […]
ACNA’s March Conclave
Anglican Unscripted filled in the details on the forthcoming ACNA conclave. George Conger reports here that the conclave will happen after the March 12th consecration of Chip Edgar as bishop. The conclave is scheduled to take place at the St. Christopher Camp and Conference Center on Seabrook Island. Archbishop Beach wants 90 percent of the […]
ACNA College of Bishops and C4SO
It turns out that my suspicions about the lack of a press release from the College of Bishops meeting were correct. Anglican Unscripted reported on this over the weekend. Among other things, they said: There are rumors that some churches within C4SO no longer want to be associated with ACNA. Ten to twelve C4SO churches […]
The Expositor’s Greek Testament
The Expositor’s Greek Testament is one of my favorite commentaries. I picked up a volume at a used store many years ago and had it rebound. Even though I can’t read Greek, I can make out the words with other helps and read the commentary. Volume 4 is available online for free here.
Moby Dick as an anti-Leviticus
My book club just read through Moby Dick, a fascinating novel that operates on many levels below the surface narrative of the hunt for a whale. James Jordan offers a unique take on the book which I wish someone would expand on and dig into further in an old newsletter. He writes: Ishmael is the […]
Against the invocation of angels
The Synod Of Laodicea In Phrygia Pacatiana Canon XXXV – Notes NOTES. Ancient Epitome Of Canon XXXV. Van Espen.
Another case of sexual misconduct in ACNA
While talking to Bart Gingerich about sexual misconduct cases in ACNA he mentioned another case from the Anglican Diocese of San Joaquin. A priest named Jesus Antonio Castañeda-Serna was accused of sexual misconduct and arrested on February 24th 2019. The Fresno chief of police said: The Diocese put out a statement that said: Disturbingly, Castañeda […]
ACNA and sexual misconduct
Yesterday the ACNA posted this press release: Although grievous, this is a good thing. It is good that the man was exposed and removed, although it was so late in life that it worries me to think that he was in the clergy and in leadership for many, many years while engaged in a massively […]
GAFCON and GSFA
Just a reminder that The Global Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans (GAFCON) and the Global South Fellowship of Anglican Churches (GSFA) are separate entities. If the average member of an ACNA parish knows anything about the global situation, he or she probably knows that ACNA is part of GAFCON. But last year the formal, organizational weight […]