Does the Church of England Need Evangelicals?
by Carl R. TruemanThe issue of our day is anthropology. What does it mean to be human, if it means anything at all? Continue Reading »
Technocracy and Same-Sex Marriage
by Jamie FranklinThe Church of England will not long survive in the desiccated hands of the materialist, which might at any moment clench into fists. Continue Reading »
The Church of England Takes a “Third Way” on Gay Marriage
by Carl R. TruemanIf gay partnerships are legitimate, why deny them the status of marriage? And if they are not legitimate, why bless them? Continue Reading »
The Church of England's Empty Gesture
by Calvin RobinsonThe Church of England claims to be “Christ centered, Jesus shaped,” but not only does she no longer practice what she preaches, she rarely even preaches it. Continue Reading »
The Catholic Heart of England
by Mark BauerleinJoseph Pearce joins the podcast to discuss his new book, Faith of Our Fathers: A History of True England. Continue Reading »
Briefly Noted
by Moriah SpecialeA Field Guide to the English Clergy: A Compendium of Diverse Eccentrics, Pirates, Prelates and Adventurers; All Anglican, Some Even Practising by fergus butler-gallie oneworld, 192 pages, $20 Ah, the holy fool. Though we often associate such characters with the great tomes of Russian . . . . Continue Reading »
The Monster's Servant
by Richard RexThomas Cromwell: A Revolutionary Life by diarmaid macculloch viking, 752 pages, $40 They said it could not be done. At least Sir Geoffrey Elton, to whose memory his former doctoral student has dedicated this book, said it could not be done. According to him, as Diarmaid MacCulloch reminds us, . . . . Continue Reading »
Missing the Sacred Heart
by Dan HitchensJohn Matusiak's Henry VIII: The Life and Rule of England's Nero is perceptive, but Christ's heart is missing from the narrative. Continue Reading »
Latimer and Ridley Are Forgotten
by Peter HitchensHidden in the northern suburbs of Oxford are the last traces of a path first trodden by multitudes of country folk hurrying to see the burning of the Protestant martyrs Hugh Latimer and Nicholas Ridley on October 16, 1555, and trudging home afterward. For some years I lived very close to this track, . . . . Continue Reading »
The Church of England’s Nietzschean Proposal
by Carl R. TruemanThe Church of England’s call for a transgender liturgy misses the philosophical implications of transgenderism. Continue Reading »
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