ecclesiology

Catching up after a few missed days — progress on the research paper and a wonderful Mother’s Day with family. Read more

A busy work day, some paper rumination, and a May the Fourth greeting for the Anglican crowd. Read more

More work on the research paper, the stress of formation, and the question every postulant asks at some point. Read more

Research for the church polity paper — Vernon Staley on the financial and ecclesiological abuses that made the English Reformation… Read more

Starting the Church and Sacraments research paper on church polity — and meeting granddaughter Maya for the first time. Read more

No studying today — a brief reflection on getting older, limits, and why memento mori makes more sense with age. Read more

Article 19 on the visible Church — two sentences, Word and Sacrament, and no see exempt from error. Read more

Baby Maya arrived today — our second grandchild. Psalm 127 says the rest. Read more

Third Sunday of Easter — church, family, a prayer request for a priest mentor, and Browne on election as a… Read more

A full day with family — a daughter’s birthday, an afternoon with son and grandson, and no studying whatsoever. Read more

A day off from the books — coffee with my son, dinner with my wife, and a reminder that God… Read more

A brief theological exchange on womanhood — covenantal ontology vs. philosophical definition, and why Jerusalem may not need Athens. Read more

More Browne on Article 17 — election in the Old and New Testaments is the same concept across languages, and… Read more

Reading Browne on Article 17 — predestination, the patristic consensus, and why the simplest answer is still “follow me.“​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Read more

A brief reflection on completing the ACNA Catechism tool and the podcast that started the postulancy journey. Read more

Final video of DT 701 — Real Presence, Cranmer’s ascent view, and why the Sursum Corda is the whole argument.… Read more

No studying — overtime and family. But the marital covenant framework for salvation keeps getting richer, and the image of… Read more

Session 9 on baptism — circumcision and baptism as covenant signs, and the case for sprinkling from Pentecost and Moses… Read more

Two videos on the dominical sacraments and the marriage symbolism running through the covenants — and why western Christianity thinks… Read more

Stott on the unrepeatable authority of the apostles, Cummins on the cessation of the apostolic office, and Jethro’s hierarchy —… Read more

No studying today — but a proposal to the rector about a video wall from a closed Eddie Bauer and… Read more

Back to work after a week of RSV. No studying — just keeping the job under control. And a reminder… Read more

Sunday worship and a 1953 passage from Bishop Colin Dunlop on why worship fails when treated as a means to… Read more

The sheliach concept and apostolic succession — and why Anglicanism holds apostolic succession and apostolic teaching together. TEC kept one… Read more

A rest day, and some thinking about the Abuja Affirmation and GAFCON — whether the arc from the Jerusalem Declaration… Read more

Two videos on Esse and Bene Esse while fighting RSV — Cyprian on the unity of the Church, and why… Read more

Finished the assigned section of Darwell Stone’s Outlines of Christian Dogma — pages covering the Church and Sacraments. Clean distinctions,… Read more

After a gap since October, a postulancy update: two courses completed at Cranmer Theological House, now into Church and Sacraments,… Read more