The Anglican approach to Christian apologetics: Joseph Butler’s biblical cosmos
According to Bishop Butler, Scripture is God’s instrument to separate the sheep from the goats and to order both according to his intentions.
God’s secret name, and our names
“I AM WHO I AM,” God told Moses (Exod. 3:14). God has a name. But, unlike ours, his Name perfectly expresses what and who he is. “Jeff” is an arbitrary noise, an arbitrary signature, that has no intrinsic connection to a person who by no means has to exist. “Jeff” expresses nothing.
The impossibility of monotheism without the Bible
For years now I have been working on articles and a dissertation about a person I would consider the greatest Anglican theologian of the 20th century, Lionel S. Thornton. His voluminous writings display a depth... Read More...
An appeal to those considering departure from the Anglican Church of Canada
The real sign of hope is that God continues to raise up faithful people, that they continue to build solid friendships within the ACoC, and that the unique bonds of affection we have with each other, our Communion, and with the Indigenous North are being strengthened despite the centrifugal forces of division.
Miscarriage, barrenness, and the sacrament of marriage in the Anglican Church of Canada
Is marriage God's “pastoral response” to our hurt and suffering?
Consume or be consumed
Either we consume him, recognizing him in the bread and in the gathered community, or he consumes us.
Evaluating ‘This Holy Estate’: Same-sex marriage, and a failed argument from analogy
The report seeks a unique definition of marriage for same-sex partners, but never provides it. Instead, it resorts to an unrelated analogy.
You might be a monist
Monism is all rather heady, but it bears on several theological topics, including Christology and ecclesiology.