ProudlyAnglican's Blog

Every member of our Diocese is a missionary in North America because God has called us to salvation and sent us to proclaim his word. This is urgent partly because our culture is no longer Christian, in fact it is openly hostile to the Christian Faith. Our goal is to tell the good news of the atoning death and resurrection of Jesus to our pagan relatives, friends, colleagues and society with gentleness and respect so that they might repent of sin, believe in Christ and be sav ed. That is the mission of our Diocese. This entails sacrifice and shame and suffering. The CMS missionaries suffered and many died to give the gospel to Africa. Let us be willing to suffer to give this gospel to our nations again. We are not here to spread our version or your version of Anglicanism as wonderful as you may think it is. Rather we are here to spread the gospel primarily and hopefully in the process teach a godly expression of Anglicanism. Since we are Anglican missionaries sent by God to evangeliz...

The Integrity of the Anglican Church 10th July 2020 Charles Raven What gives Anglicanism its integrity? In this article, Charles Raven shows that this is ultimately a question of where we look for authority. Integrity can be understood both in the sense of being fit for purpose, for instance when we refer to the integrity of an aircraft’s airframe, or in the sense of being honest and morally upright. Sin and human frailty make it inevitable that any Church will have its failures of integrity in the latter sense, but Anglicanism has had a particularly contested history with regard to the former, from the Roman Catholic and Puritan critics of the sixteenth century, through the Commonwealth and disestablishment in the seventeenth century, the rise of both rationalism and Methodism in the eighteenth century to the early nineteenth century Tractarian critique of a Church which in their view had become little more than a branch of government. The habitual ambig...