"Childish adults are the most dangerous thing in the world... Adults treated like children are the saddest."
Tag: Catholic Revival
Merrily on High (2)
"Whenever we had a big pilgrimage [to the Shrine of our Lady] I usually got a crop of abusive letters, one half complaining that too much of the Prayer Book had been used, and the other half enraged that the Mass had not been Prayer Book enough... Anglo-Catholics could display the same kind of intolerance … Continue reading Merrily on High (2)
Anglo-Catholic of the Week: Reverend John Wesley
Note: I've wanted to write about Rev. Wesley for some time, because I think that his method of evangelism and discipleship will be important to us in the near future. Unfortunately, his life experience was too diverse to compress into just one article, and I wonder if I have emphasized the appropriate points. If any … Continue reading Anglo-Catholic of the Week: Reverend John Wesley
Outreach
Churches can use the following instructions in order to make and maintain Facebook pages for their churches. They are no longer the ideal form of social media outreach, but they are better than nothing until we develop our own form of Alternative Christian Media. Even cradle Anglicans will not be able to find you if … Continue reading Outreach
Conclusion
When I graduated college, my choir gave me a copy of St. Augustine’s Prayer Book. If you have one, open it to the copyright page. The first edition was published in 1947 and reprinted 13 times. The second edition has gone through 18 printings. That’s incredible for a book with a niche market as small as … Continue reading Conclusion
A further example
If you are still convinced that the world has gone to hell in a hand-basket and it's beyond saving, allow me to demonstrate how well we've done when things were worse. In 1882, Endicott Peabody suspended his seminary studies to save a struggling church in a small Western border town. The old building had burned down, and … Continue reading A further example
On marriage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTIpt65Ns24 In Christian marriage, husband and wife become one flesh for the purpose of mutual joy, comfort and procreation. Marriages are also practical arrangements. Until relatively recently, they were usually contracted for economic reasons (ever heard of a dowry?) that look cynical to modern Westerners. Yet it's modern marriages for romantic love that are most … Continue reading On marriage
Revival
Having addressed the family unit, we move to the community. We must articulate norms that once went unspoken by resurrecting, for lack of a better word, manners. I don’t mean to suggest rigidly clinging to empty forms. The most Episcopalian thing I can possibly do is suggest that we have a tea party on a … Continue reading Revival
Men and women
"If a generation does not pass down the living tradition to its progeny, they become grounded in the self alone and the meta-narrative dies, introducing anomie, or a lack of norms, into society. The state of anomie is the loss of the only shared language that can exist..." In reconstructing the customs necessary to complete … Continue reading Men and women
Who they are: Our mission field
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_qvy82U4RE Sadly, this clip from the popular science-fiction serial Rick and Morty is the most honest explanation of the spirit of our times that I have ever seen. Here, Morty Smith explains for his sister, Summer, a terrible secret about about his travel between worlds with their mad-scientist grandfather, Rick Sanchez. If it doesn't make … Continue reading Who they are: Our mission field
When I Consider How My Light is Spent 