Tag Archives: Continuing Anglicanism

Comprehensiveness, on whose terms?

I should stress that this article is of my own initiative and not the official position of the ACC. At the same time, I am loyal to the way of my diocese in the UK (and now with a European … Continue reading

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Anglican Catholic Gentleness

I would like to salute Fr Jonathan Munn in his sensitive and gentle comments to a posting by Cappellane, the posting in question being Tea With Fr. Munn. Gentleness and kindness, an irenic approach, are a fundamental part of Anglican … Continue reading

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The Bishop in the Anglican Catholic Church

Following on from my posting Church Bureaucracy, I wrote to our Metropolitan, Archbishop Mark Haverland and asked him to write something about being a bishop in the Anglican Catholic Church in the light of his experience. In his e-mail, he wrote … Continue reading

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Another Plea for a Church of Human Dimensions

My brother priest Fr Jonathan Munn has written another cri de coeur – Unashamed Idealism. I added a brief comment, suggesting that my old article Rigorism,Tutiorism and Probabilism had some relevance by analysing the roots of the legalistic and judgemental attitude … Continue reading

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Anglican Catholic Broadness

Fr Jonathan Munn has written some fine reflections on his recent experience at our recent ACC Provincial Synod. Broad Birettas and Canterbury Caps is not an article about clerical dress, sacerdotal boulevardiers or curés de salon – but about our … Continue reading

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News from the Traditional Anglican Communion in England

I received this message by e-mail just now. I wish the TAC well in its Continuing Anglican apostolate and I will keep Bishop Gray and his flock in the UK and Bishop Pope and his people in Australia in my … Continue reading

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Liturgical Christianity

I went through my morning routine of drinking coffee and looking at my e-mail and blog comments. One by Christopher William McAvoy stood out on the Orthodox Blow-Out Department. Without reproducing it here, it contains a theme that is close … Continue reading

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Reflections on the Decline of Christian Europe

I have been on this subject before, and I may have some insight not being a sociologist or a “new atheist”. It is very difficult to get any kind of objective understanding of a situation that seems to elude anything … Continue reading

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More Commentary

I shake my head compassionately when I read Fr. Munn, Fr. Chadwick and The Embryo Parson on the 2013 Provincial Synod of the Anglican Catholic Church (Etc.). It’s an interesting piece from someone about to church hop again – see By … Continue reading

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Fr Jonathan Munn on Defining Anglicanism

Fr Jonathan Munn of our Diocese has written Provincial Synod and Provincial Anglicanism in his blog. He is just about to accompany our Bishop to America for the Provincial Synod of the Anglican Catholic Church. Perhaps I might go another … Continue reading

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