As a follow-up to the last post, I just learned that The Society for the Study of Eastern Orthodoxy and Evangelicalism is starting up again. Anyone interested in being on the mailing list should contact Brock Bingaman at Loyola University Chicago: BBINGAM@LUC.EDU
This Christmas, consider supporting the King’s Meadow Endurance Team. George Grant is an advocate for substantive, classical Reformed liturgy, and they have exciting plans to expand into a full liberal arts college!
Read a more detailed letter here.
Although this site continues to get steady traffic, I find myself too busy in my family and my studies to develop it as it could be. If anyone out there would like to contribute, either as a writer or an editor, let me know. The original vision was for this site to be a resource, [...]
I came across an exciting mission opportunity for academics. This organization sends Christian teachers into other countries, finding positions for them in secular universities. A quote on their home-page says it all:
“The university is a clear-cut fulcrum with which to move the world. Change the university and you change the world,”
declared Dr. Charles Malik, former [...]
A reader wrote in his observations on current liturgical events, and I decided to post part of it here, since it highlights many of the reasons this blog exists:
“I am a convinced Protestant, though I was confirmed in a predominantly Anglo-Catholic communion (Anglican Province in America) last year. My hopes are to return to a more Reformed/Presbyterian liturgical communion sometime [...]
My MA thesis in Church History has just been posted on the web: Ancient Discipline and Pristine Doctrine: Appeals to Antiquity in the Developing Reformation. It does not deal with liturgy, as such, but examines confessional Protestant views toward church history. Such a background is essential to understand how Protestant liturgies have developed and why.
The more I read from James Hastings Nichols, the more I like him. An article from 1964, in which he critiques to a proposed “Service for the Lord’s Day” is insightful and points out some problems with how the Presbyterian church was pursing liturgical reform at that time. Very relevant to our situation: Is the New [...]
I’ve known a couple people who have entered the Roman or Eastern churches, looking for the “Apostolic Church,” or some such thing. Like a good Protestant, I believe the Apostolic Church is the Church Universal (Catholic), which is founded on the teaching of the Apostles. Of course, the question of just what that teaching is [...]
Although I haven’t read Andrew Sandlin’s book by the same name , I’ve also heard this phrase as a reason to not celebrate the historic Church year. Why make a big fuss over Easter when it’s Easter every Sunday? Well, I recently found out that people who say such things are on the road to [...]
Although I’m not totally on board with their project (still rather old-fashioned in my liturgical and aesthetic tastes), Bruce Benedict and Redeemer Presbyterian have put together some helpful resources on being liturgical and contemporary: Cardiphonia.com. I respect what they’re doing, and wish them will.
A Lutheran tells us why your church should celebrate Trinity Sunday.
Calvin and the [...]
