Kevin Kallsen, George Conger, and Gavin Ashenden report on the latest court victory in Britain regarding ‘thought crime’ and they have a lengthy discussion on spreading the Gospel to the connected world.

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  1. The online world is a complicated one. The effort has to be well done with focus and kept fresh. Most churches have a tough time doing their WEB site well.

    I’ve read the well written, melancholy, nostalgic, sleepy front page essays on Anglican Online each week for 17+ years. Recently they turned out the lights on the weekly essays. It is hard telling what their focus was. Perhaps it was laminations for gone bye days at church before the changes they endorsed tore the same asunder. They did have a feed back letters to the editor section buried deep within but only published feedback from those from the prevailing winds. I dig catch our new rector lying like a dog in one of those letter.

    Comments are important. Publishers love fawning ones. What about the trolls? I’m probably considered one but push back against the volunteer moderators who expect footnotes and sources for everything on your mind and in your heart. Be ready to deal with the wild West. Breitbart recently published the Justin Welby ‘woke’ article apologizing to the world for being alive. There was 1700+ comments and counting most of which in very non-PC terms didn’t think much of him or the horse he was riding. But, there were more than 2000 people that read the article. Think about that.

  2. When I began viewing Anglican Unscripted there were three Anglican commentators, one ACNA layman, one TEC (Evangelical) priest, and one Church of England priest turned bishop in a small split-off Anglican denomination. They had one common Anglican identity and spoke of things Anglican. Now we have two Anglicans and one professed convert to Roman Catholicism, who seems not to hesitate in swaging Anglicans with his adopted Roman Catholic perspective, for example repeatedly distinquishing Anglicans as Protestants and referring to the Roman Catholic Church as “the Catholic Church.” I suppose that it is not uncharacteristic of the newly converted. However, in my life, I have known prominent Roman Catholic clergy who have been more respectful toward Anglicans. Even Vatican II acknowledged the “catholic” tradition within Anglicanism. A Roman Catholic priest featured in Newsweek years ago for introducing what was then called the Dialogue Mass, in which English was being introduced, remarked later to my wife and me during dinner that we, Anglicans and Roman Catholics, have the same creeds. Well, in those same creeds, both Anglicans and Roman Catholics profess belief in “one holy catholic and apostolic Church.” A Church of England priest who came stateside remarked to inquirers that one need only look to the legal title of the Roman Catholic Church in regard to the use of “Catholic,” which Eastern Orthodox and Anglo-Catholics may use in reference to themselves as well. Too, I remember that he would also point out that the word “Protestant,” once in TEC’s title, meant for the faith, not against it.

    I have known camaraderie to exist among Anglican and Roman Catholic clergy in certain localities. For example, in my lifetime I was a participant in an ecumenical Benedictine community sponsored by a local TEC bishop and local Roman Catholic bishop (which “conservatives” in the Vatican made it impossible to continue–after two “plenary” sessions.) I remind Gavin, again, that the traffic across the Tiber is two way too. In my opinion, “the Church of Rome hath erred,” in Article XIX has not lost its ring.

    • I appreciate Gavin’s insights and willingness to speak clearly of the world the Church faces. ‘Do we worship the Creator or creation?’ I heard this from him clearly and not in some contorted idolatry sermon.

      Let’s face reality. The anglican churches don’t have much to do with Anglicanism anymore. I was much more taken aback with the group Gavin was bishop than his move to Rome. But, that is because I have too much local knowledge (he was released but not given blessings). note: the local church needs a new priest. Not much of a stipend offered.

  3. The issue I run into with Rome is the last 200 years of Canon Law. I have dug deep in my last 3 year search for a church, and they are completely unjustifiable in the Bible or the Tradition.

    Include gems like:
    Papal infallibility
    Complete lack of ability to ever go backwards
    Anglican priests ‘finally’ do not have valid orders
    Pope as only way to God (other ways path of sin, incl. Eastern Orthodox)

    They are just power moves, and that is even before Vatican II nonsense.

    A Roman Patriarch? I would be okay with that. A Roman Mini-Jesus? No, thank you.

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