Why read the Puritans? It’s easy to treat these saints of yesterday simply as figures from a rather distant seventeenth-century world: men in black gowns arguing about predestination, church government, and things which happened nearly four hundred years ago. But the questions they wrestled with are often surprisingly familiar. How do you reform a church which seems only half reformed? What should Christians do when political power interferes with faithful ministry? When

(Sort of) A man sits alone downstairs late at night, bathed in the glow of his laptop screen. Everyone else is already in bed, and he should be too. What he plans to do is known only to him and the One to whom all hearts are open. He tries not to think about that as he begins to type the name of the website into the search engine. It appears as a suggestion in the drop-down menu. He hesitates. He remembers again where this path leads: to shame and despair. In a moment of self

The Lord of the Rings is a grand adventure which Tolkien himself described as a profoundly Christian and Catholic work. With this in mind, is it appropriate to delve its depths for wisdom that applies specifically to Anglican ministry? Since the professor did not intend his story to be a direct allegory, and intentionally included elements from mythology in his works, he hopefully wouldn’t mind an Anglican drawing some hope from the deep reservoir of inspiration that the batt