Tradition ~ It Must Live & Breathe

This is the kind of thing I love about the Anglican way: After all, the great Confessions of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were hardly the product of leisured academics, saying their prayers and thinking through issues in an abstract way, without a care in the world. Those were turbulent, dangerous and violent times, and [...]

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Condoms for elementary students?

When the public (public: open to or concerning the people as a whole) system stops considering itself accountable to the people, it has stopped being a service and become a form of dictatorship. Video – Condoms for elementary students?

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Devastating Consequences of Promiscuity: Real & Imagined

“In 1934 Cambridge anthropologist Dr. J. D. Unwin published Sex and Culture. In it he examined 86 cultures spanning 5,000 years with regard to the effects of both sexual restraint and sexual abandon. His perspective was strictly secular, and his findings were not based in moralistic dogma. He found, without exception, that cultures that practiced [...]

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Evangelical Identity

In 1981 J.I. Packer wrote a booklet for the Latimer Trust titled A Kind of Noah’s Ark? The Anglican Commitment to Comprehensiveness. It was Latimer Study 10, and referenced, among other things, a short list of the Evangelical Anglican Identifiers Packer first outlined in his 1978 monograph, The Evangelical Anglican Identity Problem. Both of these [...]

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