The designation of Lent 5 Sunday as “Passion Sunday” in the BCP 2019 is a return to the same designation in the BCP 1928, where the two-week period from Lent 5 Sunday through Holy Saturday is also called “Passiontide.” The Collect and readings assigned in Lent 5A continue the trajectory of the penitential season, highlighting…

We may put on this facade because of social pressure, self-deception, or a theology that forgets that Jesus himself wept, suffered, and died. Then there is also the opposite temptation, to wallow in sadness, as if our Lord did not rise again from the grave. “Deck Thyself, My Soul, with Gladness” is a hymn that addresses these complex emotions with honesty, beauty, and authentic hope.

Who is St. Gregory, what makes him so great, and why do Christians, specifically Anglicans, celebrate him 1,400 years after his death?

Lent is a season the church employs to teach that, by the light of the Son of God coming into the world, darkness opposed to his arrival is exposed. In these middle weeks of Lent Year A, the church assigns long Gospel readings from the Book of John in which there is significant dialogue between…

Clause 2 has two sentences. Taken together, they capture the twofold dynamic of the Bible, moving from God’s gracious self-revelation to our thankful response.

In the 1662 Book of Common Prayer, we confess, “O Lord, have mercy on us, miserable offenders.” Those are deep, strong statements that reveal our condition and status.

The risen Christ showed his scars—healed and transformed—to his disciples. The Eucharist joins us to that same reality. Not to minimize suffering or explain it away, but to acknowledge it. The table knows that we often need care before we consciously recognize it.

On March 3rd, we celebrate the feast of John and Charles Wesley, two Anglican priests credited as the founders of Methodism, but whose lifelong loyalties lay with the Church of England, from which they never formally left. The Anglican Church in North America recognizes them as “Reformers of the Church” (2019 Book of Common Prayer,…

“It gives me great pleasure to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.” The scriptures, contrary to Albert Einstein, regard stubborn disobedience to the word of God as a non-conformity in which the Almighty takes no pleasure (though he forgives through Christ). As a group, the readings assigned for Lent 3 perhaps deliver…

Where the Episcopal Church had a rich legacy of historic buildings, the ACNA seemed to be building for the future. It had a missional energy, an ethos of going out and proclaiming the pure gospel to a needy world.

In The Gospel After Christendom, the writers, pastors, and scholars of The Gospel Coalition and the Keller Center for Cultural Apologetics have applied a similar understanding of cultural apologetics in a unified collection of essays designed to “define cultural apologetics, explain its biblical and historical grounding, and demonstrate how it is important for the church today.”

In our worship during Lent 1, the church introduced, in dramatic fashion, the intense opposition in the world to the revelation of the Son of God. Now in Lent 2A, the prayers and propers highlight a critical internal conflict within the believing community: faith versus works as the path to fellowship with God. The assigned…

One of the most remarkable things in the bulletin at St. Laurence Anglican Church is the Saturday worship schedule, which reads: When I first came to St. Laurence, this line caught me off guard—both unfamiliar and quietly unsettling. Over time, it has come to feel like an invitation to restoration, calling me back into belonging….

Gerald Bray, Reading the Bible with Ten Church Fathers: How to Interpret, Teach, and Preach Like the Early Christians. Baker, 2026. 224 pp. Anglican theology has long understood the reading of Scripture to be a communal and historical act, shaped not only by the text itself but by the Church’s faithful reception of it across…

Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent and an abrupt shift in the church year from the Incarnation cycle (Advent through Epiphany) to the Paschal cycle (Lent through Pentecost). If, in general, the celebration of the incarnation of Christ has oriented us to wonder at the glory of Christ in the world, our worship now…

Trinity is clarifying its mission in a new season of the ACNA’s life: to form clergy and leaders who are deeply rooted in Scripture, grounded in the Anglican tradition, and equipped to serve a province that is still coming into its own.

Cædmon is a quiet saint whose voice still echoes across the centuries, not because he sought his own fame but because he listened to God’s call. In the late seventh century A.D., he lived at Whitby Abbey in Northumbria (now northeastern England), a vibrant monastic community for men and women founded by the abbess Hilda….

We’re still enjoying the glow of Christmastide when Epiphany comes, bright, radiant, and full of revelation. The season begins with the Wise Men, led by a star, arriving to worship the child King, and ends with the blinding glory of the Transfiguration. It’s a season of manifestations, of seeing Jesus clearly for who he truly…