By the Rt. Rev. David C. Anderson

Growing up in the Episcopal Church USA, I came to love the Anglican liturgy and the sense of decency and order that seemed to govern how things were done. About the time that I answered a call to ministry and ordination in the Episcopal Church, things began to change. New trial prayer books came out, then a new hymnal. Long-standing rules about the requirements for ordination were significantly modified, and moral standards began to move with the culture rather than stand as a guide apart from culture.

As I began my ministry, I wanted to reach the highest level of competence possible, and so I devoured books from the Alban Institute and from authors such as Arlin J. Rothauge, Roy M. Oswald, Speed B. Leas, and the truly prolific writer Lyle E. Schaller. Many of these books are still relevant, since they touch on basics of church operation and human nature, redeemed and otherwise.

I served in the Episcopal Church for 62 years until the theological trajectory of my old denomination was going where I could not and did not wish to go, so I moved my Presbyteral letter to the Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion. This body decided in 2007 to include me in a small group of men who were to be consecrated as Anglican bishops for duty in North America, and today my affiliation as a bishop is with the House of Bishops of Nigeria and the College of Bishops of the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA)...Read more.

Perhaps the easiest way to describe Reformation Anglicanism is simply by defining the words. By "reformation," we mean that expression of the Christian faith that arose in the 16th century, commonly called the Protestant Reformation, which sought to reform the church according to the teaching of the Bible and the practice of the early church. By "Anglican," we mean those Christian reforms that took place in England during the Protestant Reformation.

There is of course more to be said and we hope to say much more in the future. For now it may be useful to set forth a few boundary markers to help identify partners and shape future dialogue.

Of the many things that could be said about the English Reformation, one aspect that is consistently overlooked is that it would not have been possible were it not for the experience of men and women receiving the good news of Jesus Christ in a personal and transformative way. Take for example the experience of Thomas Bilney, who recounted his own conversion in the following words...Read more.

By Stoyan Zaimov

The Canadian Supreme Court is set to decide whether teachers at private religious schools in the province of Quebec will be allowed to share their faith with students, in a case concerning a Catholic high school that is being forced to teach students in an ethics and religious course that all religions are the same.

"It is the same thought process that has been the genesis for prohibitions on blasphemy in other jurisdictions. The whole idea behind blasphemy laws in some parts of the world is that you don't want to offend different religions, and so what they (the Quebec government) do is argue that they promote tolerance and understanding, but rather they want to control what is said," Gerald Chipeur, Q.C., of the Canadian firm Miller Thompson LLP, told The Christian Post in a phone interview on Wednesday.

Chipeur is one of 2,300 attorneys allied with Alliance Defending Freedom, a nonprofit legal organization that filed a brief on Monday with the Canadian Supreme Court in defense of Loyola High School, the Jesuit Roman Catholic school in question...Read more.