The story of God’s provision, it seems, is meticulously signposted, and our Anglican tradition, with its cherished three-fold cord of scripture, tradition, and reason, is wonderfully equipped to follow the breadcrumbs from prophecy to fulfilment and finally to our parish altar.
As Anglo-Catholics and those who cherish the Society of Our Lady of Walsingham, we adore the great Christian Feast of the Nativity. Every year, we prepare our hearts through Advent, hungrily awaiting the joyous moment when we sing carols and celebrate the Incarnation of Our Lord. Midnight Mass is a Read more
Season 1, Episode 1 of FROM THE PEWS with David and Shaun
Bible readers, upon opening the New Testament, encounter the long list of names that begins the Gospel of Matthew and we work our way through them not really taking them in. It is a common experience to find such genealogies challenging or indeed uninteresting
One of the great joys of reading the Bible with the mind of the Church is spotting the threads of divine gold woven through its pages. A story that begins in a garden finds its astonishing conclusion in a city-garden, and the One who spoke the first “Let there be light” is the same Lamb who is its eternal lamp.
There are many descriptions of the word of The Lord and we’ve picked our favourites and put them in a handy poster for you!
The recent appointment of a Dame Sara Mullally to the seat of Archbishop of Canterbury may well represent the culmination of decades of theological drift within the Church of England. While it is easy to view such an event merely as another step in the Church’s journey towards “inclusion,” it might also be seen, through the eyes of faith, as a sober act of divine judgement. The question before us is not one of equality or culture, but of fidelity to the revealed will of God and the order He has established for His Church.
When reason is untethered from revelation, it quickly becomes its own god. It is with a heavy heart that one observes the current state of the Church of England and its wider Communion. There is a palpable sense of disquiet, a feeling that the foundations laid by the martyrs and Read more