Christians often desire ecstatic encounters with the divine. But not everyone has them.

YouTube video by All Things Necessary

On taking scripture seriously

Thoughts on Scripture, receptivity, and mastery with help from John Calvin

Thinking theologically about the attention economy

One of the theological maxims is ‘Convention is not canon’. Just because a practice is normative does not mean that it is required. I have always been

with some help from seventeenth century Zürich

A historical research case study

Early magisterial Protestant leaders were stuck between two extremes in articulating their doctrine of the ministry. On one hand, the Church of Rome’s claims

What helping refugees in Greece and Nevada taught me about generosity and hospitality.

A look at a shockingly bad disciplinary system

Musings on Anglican theology, history, and liturgy. Click to read Draw Near With Faith, by Ben Crosby, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

John Boys' surprising irenicism and Reformation soteriological disputes

Thoughts on Bishop Todd Ousley and Title IV

How can the church invite people to more fully keep the Lord's Day?

One of the less well-observed rubrics in the English Book of Common Prayer is the requirement that the bread for communion ‘be such as is usual to be eaten;

Notes on Christianity, post-Christianity, and desire

St Martin's, Bowness-on-Windermere

How I fold the Athanasian Creed into my practice of the Daily Office

A subsidiary note on 'The Current State of the Anglican Church of Canada'

How to Use the Book of Common Prayer: A Guide to the Anglican Liturgy

Or, against ecclesiastical gaslighting