by Jake Dell I recently decided to get a new Bible for my own reading. I started with an NIV, then an ESV, and finally came back to the KJV. That is because modern translations (anything after 1881) use a scientific method to reconstruct the source texts. I always knew this, but until now, I …
One of the things that drew me to my current parish was its use of Rite 1. But, I wondered, how many knew why it’s used? For me, it’s not just the beauty of the Elizabethan prose and the continuity of hundreds of years, but the plain declaration of the gospel it makes. For instance, when the …
Here’s a quick English pop-quiz: what is the subject and what’s the verb in this very long sentence? In the fifteenth year of the reign of Emperor Tiberius, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was ruler of Galilee, and his brother Philip ruler of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias …
I have been, at various times, an Anglo-Catholic, a Tridentine Romanist, and an Evangelical Anglican. Interestingly, my core belief in the substitutionary atonement and propitiatory sacrifice of Christ on the cross was the one constant, the one evangel. This leads me to say that “evangelical” is a theology and not a good way to describe …
One of my favorite collects is one that Thomas Cranmer composed specifically for the new English prayer book (1549); the collect for Scripture: (1662) Blessed Lord, who hast caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning: Grant that we may in such wise hear them, read, marke, learne, and inwardly digest them, that …
