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Biblical Catholicism: The Branch Theory
Archbishop of Canterbury Michael Ramsey and Pope Paul VI meeting in 1966. “There’s a quaint Anglican concept of the universal Church known as the ‘branch theory,’” says Damian Thompson at the start of...
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Ask an Anglican: What’s in a Name?
That’s what Juliet asked in Shakespeare’s famous love story gone wrong. And in our own love story gone wrong, the modern Church, it is a question that gets asked fairly often as well. Thus, Matty...
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Ask an Anglican: Are Anglicans Schismatics?
From the 1933 film “The Private Life of Henry VIII.” Richard writes: What would you say to the charge that the Anglican Church was born originally only out of Henry VIII’s desire to secure a divorce...
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Biblical Catholicism: Battling Newman’s Ghost
Last week, I had the privilege of visiting Nashotah House Seminary for the first time. While there, I was told that there is a coffeehouse on campus that has an old Anglo-Catholic joke worked into its...
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There is No Such Thing as Protestantism
From the Museum of Funeral Customs in Springfield, Illinois. Photo by Robert Lawton. Death is still segregated in American society. You may be surrounded by diversity in your school or your workplace,...
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The Sacrifice of Ecumenism
Window of Saint Tikhon in the Chapel at Nashotah House Seminary. (Photo by author, please ask before reproducing.) Whether I agree or disagree with him, Fr. Stephen Freeman’s writing is always...
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Ask an Anglican: The Filioque
I’m using a comment by Eugene in a previous thread to inaugurate a new regular series here that I’m calling Ask an Anglican. I get a lot of questions about what Anglicans believe about various things,...
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Ask an Anglican: The 39 Articles
Samuel writes: To what extent do the 39 articles shape modern Anglicanism? From my Church of England perspective it seems to be bordering on disingenuity to quote from them in an unqualified manner;...
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Ask an Anglican: Choosing the One True Church
A challenging question from Robert: As a former Roman Catholic who has for some decades been an Episcopalian (though unhappy with the recent theological drift of the TEC), I am painfully aware of...
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Ask an Anglican: When the Church is no Longer the Church
Two questions today that are interrelated. Cadog writes: In a prior post, you offered assurances that staying in the Episcopal Church was right, even though there are some serious and disturbing...
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