Though, still Reformed, but also strongly appreciative of all things high church.
On here and YT, the content of @TheOtherPaul2, @Young_Anglican and @BarelyProt have been (and continue to be) helpful, as I continue my studies. God willing I hope to find an Anglican Church here in the UK to be a member of.
This is a real difference between the Anglican liturgy and the Roman Catholic one. For Roman Catholics, the homily is an optional add on to the central event: the sacrifice. For Anglicans, the Eucharist is still the center--but the liturgy is a unity of Word and Sacrament.
@Rach4Patriarchy What type of Protestant is he though? It makes a great deal of difference. It's one thing for a vaguely Baptist/Pentecostal American Evangelical to make claims wildly out of step with the Reformers (& they often do)-it's another thing entirely for a Lutheran or Anglican to do so.
He doesn’t even know that his own precious reformers completely disagreed with him on this. I didn’t know any of this when I was a protestant either. Protestantism relies on ignorance.
This is a blockhead statement.
This isn’t about saying “I told you so.” It’s about the fact that we warned the church this was a dangerous departure from Scripture, that it would lead to real consequences. And when we said it, we were treated like we were harsh, unloving, or theologically off.
We weren’t. We were doing our job. We warned. That warning was ignored, dismissed, or mocked.
This is the same pattern again. There are people who want to act like they’re more loving, more understanding, because they refuse to connect theology to behavioral outcomes.
They’re not more compassionate. They’re just unwilling to do the hard work of pastoral ministry.
Many people need to hear this: Having a desire for a good thing does not mean you are "making an idol of it."
This is an old Tim Keller trick.
Ironically, the things that got labeled as idolatrous were the family, marriage, and children. Never the pet sins of the Left.
@Rach4Patriarchy@KellyPowersBPA First of all there is no such thing as woman minister, is contrary to St Paul teaching in 1 Timothy 3, and much of the Church Catholic teaching (yes I appealed to tradition as well as Scripture); 2nd she likely denies Scripture is authoritative to begin with.
Before Augustine of Canterbury arrived in 597, Christianity was already present in Britain. Often called Celtic Christianity, it was a native, disciplined form of the faith rooted in monastic life, Scripture, and local communities. By the 4th century, British bishops were attending councils, and monasteries were active across the land. Missionaries like Aidan of Lindisfarne, Cuthbert of Lindisfarne, and Chad of Mercia helped spread the Gospel among the people.
It was simple, austere, and tied closely to the land and its people. After the Synod of Whitby, Roman customs were adopted, but the foundation had already been laid.
An early English Christianity, orthodox, disciplined, and rooted in the land. 🏴
Christ is King
This is where DEI leads. To a dead young man, bleeding out from his stab wounds while handcuffed by the police because the police have been trained to believe anything a minority perpetrator might tell them and to disbelieve anything a white victim tells them.
They have been trained to have no sympathy for white skin.
Sorin rejecting the meritorious cause of justification bc he’s a moron lol.
If the average layperson was more well read, this would scandalize people into mass apostasy.
Orthodox should distinguish:
—1) Magisterial Protestantism (with which we can have many positive contacts);
—2) Modern US evangelicalism/fundamentalism (which is batsh*t crazy, and no closer to Christianity than are Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormons, or Moonies).
I want to be really clear in my response. I am not going to retract anything, I stand by every single word. Labour are calling for me to apologise. The answer is no.
Industrial rape across almost every town and city in Britain.
Sexual torture. Murder. Endless rape.
I sat there for two weeks, listening to these girls.
I heard how one girl was raped by a dog, as Muslim men bet on what the animal would do.
Girls drugged and locked in cages, like rats.
Another, raped by 700 men over three years.
Dozens and dozens of these stories through our inquiry, and we are barely scratching the surface.
This was allowed to happen EXACTLY because politicians were cowards, refusing to discuss it.
I will not make that same mistake. I said what I said, and I meant it.
The Labour Party have blood on their hands, yet they think they can demand an apology from me for highlighting the systemic evil they allowed to infect our entire country?
They can piss off.
I am angry about it. Furious. When you hear directly from these girls about what they have been through, it changes the way you see politics. Forever.
Our report will be out very soon.
When that happens, I don’t want any apologies from the Labour Party. I don’t care about that.
I want to see those politicians responsible for covering up this atrocity behind bars for what they have done to these girls.