Received & Given
Essays on Anglican faith, received tradition, sacramental life, and the Church’s witness in the world.
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Anglicanism is not best understood as a novel theological system, a denominational compromise, or a loose permission structure for private preference, but as a disciplined way of receiving and practicing the apostolic and catholic faith.
Read essayMany Christians have learned to want Christ while treating the Church as optional. Yet Christ gathers a people, not isolated believers, and gives them Scripture, fellowship, authority, worship, and the sacraments as ordinary means of grace.
Read essayThe Eucharist is never merely a private act of devotion. It is certainly personal, in the sense that each Christian comes to the Lord’s Table in repentance, faith, hunger, gratitude, and need. No one else can believe…
Read essayMuch of Christian life is spent inside institutions that are not the Church. We are formed by schools, workplaces, charities, neighborhoods, households, and civic bodies, and we rightly want those places to be ordered…
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