Notice that the Admins at Low Church Anglican have restricted my comments.  (See bottom of second and third images.) Mahler is one of them.  There's a historical reason why they do so.  They don't want sustained interactions with educated critics, especially Anglo-Catholics, but an echo chamber.  It speaks volumes.   ..read more

 This video eloquently presents an absolutely devastating reply to J.I. Packer's argument against icons in his popular book "Knowing God", to Puritan iconoclasm, and to the Homily Against the Peril of Idolatry, which unfortunately wormed its way into one of the Church of England's official Formularies. Packer once referred to himself as a "neo-Puritan". Thankfully, and for good reason, the Church of England and her offspring (except for a tiny minority of jurisdictional holdouts) stopped requiring clerical subscription to the Articles of Religion, which incorporates the Homilies.  Th ..read more

Here is pseudo-Anglican forensic bloviator Donald Philip Veitch, donning his new purple clerical shirt.  Don is the principal mover and shaker behind the creation of a new Presbyterian microscopic sect claiming to represent true Anglicanism.  To Don, a presbyter is a bishop, and bishops wear purple. Forget about the fact that this belief stands squarely against the Catholic religion of the prayer book and all of standard Anglican divinity.  To be an Anglican bishop, to be authorized to wear the purple, one must typically be consecrated by three other bishops, who were likewise c ..read more

This is the latest from Jameson Overton, one of the pseudo-Anglican nutburgers who frequent Low Church Anglicans and other online fora of theological ill repute.  Overton was recently ordained a priest - uh, sorry, a "presbyter" - in the Reformed Episcopal Church.  I've had the distinct displeasure of bantering with him on a number of occasions, mainly at Prayer Book Anglican, but this afternoon he blocked me at Low Church Anglicans simply because I laughed at his post, linked below, with an emoji.  (Touchy, touchy, son, and I can still see you.)  Anyway, he was bloviating ..read more

The North American Anglican (TNAA) has published Cole Simmon's rejoinder to Will Witt's reply to Cole's article published July 12, 2024 ..read more

Matthew Schmitz, writing at First Things: He believes that America remains more religious than people acknowledge—it’s the elites who have changed. “If you look at one measure of religious participation, just church membership in 1980 versus 2023 versus 1840, the country is not substantially less religious today . . . than it was 150 years ago.” Yet there is a profound obstacle facing anyone who aspires to be unapologetically both Christian and American. It is the conviction, shared by many of our elites and increasingly endorsed by the government, that anyone who dissents from progressive ide ..read more

Just watched "Bad Faith" yesterday, the laughable spawn of some outfit called Heretical Reason Productions, whose web site speaks volumes.  I urge my readers to have a look at both.  As to the documentary,  they will discover that it is a tissue of half-truths, glaring omissions of pertinent facts, ridiculous juxtapositions, biblical and theological misinterpretation, propaganda, hysteria, and self-congratulatory posturing. The footage featuring the preposterous religious lefty "minister" William Barber II was particularly revealing.  A left-wing hit piece, in other words ..read more

"As the Secret Service covered him with their bodies, even putting their hands protectively over his head, as they helped him to the car, the crowd could be seen turning to the media in the back and giving them the finger. They knew. They knew who did this. The left did this. The Democrats did this. The gutter press did this. The #NeverTrumpers did this. What did they think would happen after months and even years yelling at the top of their lungs that Trump is Hitler, that Trump will be a dictator, that Trump is an “existential threat to our democracy?” Violence was inevitable. Just a week ag ..read more

New and philosophically interesting critique from Cole Simmons writing at The North American Anglican (TNAA) of Witt's Icons of Christ: A Biblical and Systematic Theology for Women’s Ordination. The Rev'd Matt Colvin penned a 4-part review of Witt's book at TNAA shortly after its publication in 2020: Part 1; Part 2; Part 3; Part 4.  It is far more comprehensive than Cole's and is more of a point-by-point refutation.   These articles in TNAA are mainly reflective of the ongoing battle between pro-WO and anti-WO factions in the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA), and as such they ..read more

Just finished reading this book. When N.T. Wright calls Thomas' work "theologically explosive", that is an understatement. If, as I believe, the New Perspective guys are right, and if it's the case that these earliest of Christian sources reveal a view of the "works of the Law" that is consistent with the NP, then stick a fork in the Protestant Reformation, English and Continental, it's done.  That means, inter alia, that the Articles and Homilies are indeed nothing more than "historical documents" that should not enjoy confessional status, and are therefore not binding on Anglicans, as t ..read more