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Thursday, February 26, 2015

Anglo-Protestantism and me

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Over the past few months, I have been trying to put to bed old controversies in which I have found myself constantly inveigled, and it is my...
Sunday, February 22, 2015

Collects for the first Sunday in Lent

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Prayer Book O LORD, who for our sake didst fast forty days and forty nights; Give us grace to use such abstinence, that, our flesh being s...
Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Collects for Ash Wednesday

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Prayer book ALMIGHTY and everlasting God, who hatest nothing that thou hast made and dost forgive the sins of all them that are penitent: ...
Sunday, February 15, 2015

Collects for Quinquagesima

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Prayer book O LORD, who hast taught us that all our doings without charity are nothing worth; Send thy Holy Ghost and pour into our hearts...

Through a rose-tinted darkly

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Sermon preached at Our Lady of Walsingham and St Francis on Quinquagesima Sunday 2015 There was a bit of a fashion in the late 1960s and ...
Wednesday, February 11, 2015

...these three...

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The Problem of Evil is certainly one of the biggest questions that challenge for many the existence of God. For Stephen Fry, it's a stum...
Sunday, February 08, 2015

Collects for Sexagesima

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Prayer book O LORD God, who seest that we put not our trust in any thing that we do; Mercifully grant that by thy power we may be defended...

Straw men and empty vessels

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Sermon preached at Our Lady of Walsingham and St Francis on Sexagesima 2015 Have you ever wondered why there are two letters to the Corin...
Tuesday, February 03, 2015

My last word on the matter?

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Okay, so I've broken a promise to myself not to get back into the ordination of women arena. I've stated my case, and have little mo...
Sunday, February 01, 2015

Collect for Septuagesima

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Prayer book O LORD, we beseech thee favourably to hear the prayers of thy people; that we, who are justly punished for our offences, may be...

Labourers of Love?

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Sermon preached at Our Lady of Walsingham and St Francis on Septuagesima Sunday 2015 So the Kingdom of heaven is like this householder wh...
Monday, January 26, 2015

More on Semi-Montanism

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So what do I mean by semi-Montanism? The Montanists in full accepted (according to OrthodoxWiki). The belief that the prophecies of t...

More on Donatism

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Following some discussions that I've had with individuals, it's clear that the heresy of Donatism needs a little more definition. ...
Sunday, January 25, 2015

Collects for the Conversion of St Paul

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Sarum O God, Who, through th preaching of Thy Apostle St Paul, hast instructed the whole world; grant we beseech Thee, that we this day hav...

Collect for the third Sunday after Epiphany

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Prayer book ALMIGHTY and everlasting God, mercifully look upon our infirmities, and in all our dangers and necessities stretch forth th...

Shaming St Paul?

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Sermon preached at Our Lady of Walsingham and St Francis on the feast of the conversion of St Paul 2015 Aren’t Christians supposed to for...
Friday, January 23, 2015

Donatism, taint and a little bit of paint.

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It's amazing how the same old arguments keep coming back because people can't accept that they are flawed. Again, the Liberals who d...
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Sunday, January 18, 2015

Collect for the Second Sunday After Epiphany

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Prayer book and Breviary ALMIGHTY and everlasting God, who dost govern all things in heaven and earth; Mercifully hear the supplications of...

Communion at Cana

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Sermon preached at Our Lady of Walsingham and St Francis on the second Sunday after the Epiphany 2015. We know that the first miracle tha...
Friday, January 16, 2015

The Church at war and at Trivial Pursuit

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What king, going to make war against another king, sitteth not down first, and consulteth whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him ...