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…

On the Last Sunday of Epiphany every year, we contemplate in our worship the Transfiguration of Jesus Christ. In this season of celebrating the Father God’s power to reveal the glory of the Son in the world, the various accounts of the Transfiguration in the Gospels form a bookend for the worshiper, with the accounts…

The Jerusalem Declaration The Jerusalem Declaration was issued by a gathering of orthodox Anglican primates at the Global Anglican Future Conference in Jerusalem in 2008, with the understanding that “The doctrine of the Church is grounded in the Holy Scriptures and in such teachings of the ancient Fathers and Councils of the Church as are…

Wright, the former Bishop of Durham and Senior Research Fellow at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford University, has written The Vision of Ephesians: The Task of the Church and the Glory of God.

For more than 400 years, the Anglican tradition has played a central role in the development of the United States of America. The intellectual culture of recent decades has obscured this historical truth, both on account of revisionist historians who see America as a secular nation and also by the failure of Anglicans to tell…

In some Anglican jurisdictions, including The Anglican Church in North America (ACNA), the priest oversees the pastoring and administration of a local parish at the bishop’s decree. Other jurisdictions prefer the term vicar for an essentially similar office.

An administrative area within a diocese, with a group of parishes overseen by an area (or rural) dean.

At the end of the Beatitudes we heard last Sunday, Jesus makes a dramatic shift from the third person “Blessed are those” to the second person “Blessed are you,” and there he remains throughout the remainder of the Sermon on the Mount. At Epiphany 5A, we hear in the assigned Gospel reading Matthew 5:13-20 the…

In a sense, Psalm 51 is emblematic of the Old Testament. It struggles with sin and the distance it creates from God—a distance King David is very nervous about personally experiencing—but it doesn’t offer a path to reunion and redemption except through the offering described at the end of the Psalm.

Greg Peters, Anglican Spirituality: An Introduction. Cascade Book, 2024. 108 pp. For many of us, the look and feel of being Anglican is as attractive as anything else it has to offer. Prayer Book spirituality is marked by modesty and calm, and methodical ways of speaking and thinking. There is a commitment to a discipline…

Thomas Aquinas was a Dominican friar, priest, philosopher, and above all, a theologian. He is best known for his massive work, the Summa Theologiae, which summarizes the main tenets of the Christian faith.

By this time, it is clear that the Jerusalem Declaration has become the doctrinal standard of the global Anglican realignment.

I grew up in Chicago, where snow is a frequent fact of winter. We took note of the first snow and significant snowfalls, and every once in a while, an actual blizzard would come to shut down work and school. The danger in such a storm is often greater from ice than from snow; ice…

In Year A, walking with Jesus in our worship, with the Gospel of Matthew as our guide, the church will focus on the biblical illumination of Jesus as divine teacher. For five consecutive weeks, we will be immersed in the Sermon on the Mount, the first and largest of Jesus’ five teaching discourses in Matthew….

The Jerusalem Declaration is the confessional basis for a reformed and reordered Communion. It is not only a memento of the first GAFCON in 2008, but it is also the ongoing “contemporary standard for Anglican identity” for individual and corporate membership in the Global Anglican Communion.

Darwell Stone, Expanded by Thomas Plant. Christian Dogma: Outlines of Orthodox Anglican Theology. Anglican House, 2025. What Great Tradition? It is very common to hear Anglicans appeal to a solid body of doctrine that existed in the past. Christians have referred to it by various names: the ancient faith, the “little-c” catholic Faith, the Great…

At Epiphany 3, out of the church’s selection of Sunday Gospel readings, we contemplate in worship the glory of Jesus Christ revealed in the earliest events of his ministry in Galilee (northern Palestine). In Year A, the assigned Gospel reading this week is from Matthew 4:12-22. In his narration of Jesus’ move north, Matthew (as…