Slum priests needed for a new Oxford Movement
The labor and sacrifice of the slum priests gave real moral heft to the Oxford Movement and saved it from the insularity of which it has stood accused ever since.
What’s preventing a new Oxford Movement?
Has the Episcopal Church developed a more profound focus on the adoration of God, a renewed commitment to justice work grounded in the Incarnation, or a sense of Anglican identity across the real and painful conflicts that have come to define us?
Come out from before your Tabernacles
The solemn worship of God’s people is truly pleasing to God only when it is paired with a commitment to social action.
Eschew liturgical idiosyncrasy
When does a desire for liturgical diversity become merely an excuse for anarchy and personal preference?
How radical a revision?
Urban T. Holmes claimed that those who resisted the 1979 Book of Common Prayer, as well as the charismatic renewal movement, reflected “a nostalgia for a classical theology which many theologians know has not been viable for almost two hundred years." But is that what the BCP represents?
The Hail Mary and Corpus Christi
Derek writes: 1.) What is doctrinally wrong with the Hail Mary in regards to asking for prayer? How is it different than me asking you for the same? 2.) Why is Eucharistic Adoration frowned upon?
Re-thinking Charles the Martyr
Whatever it is, it is anti-puritanical. It is against the simplistic modern legal precisions (both Catholic and Protestant) and their tendency to sever the good and the beautiful from the true.
Bowdlerized Catholicism
If “No Covenant,” what? How do Anglicans express a sound doctrine of the Church without competent instruments of unity?