Author: Stephen Noll

Here is a tale that you can only appreciate if you are old enough to remember the days when cars had a bench front seat. It goes like this: a…

By pressing the “Track Changes” button, I can strike through anything and then at my leisure [delete it] altogether. And that is what the Episcopal Church USA (TEC) is doing…

Two hallowed principles lie behind my question. The first is the principle that praying shapes believing (lex orandi lex credendi). Here is an example of this principle. When we pray…

The Episcopal Church USA (TEC) is hoping for a welcome response to its new doctrine and practice of same-sex marriage. The reply from England is, however, neither thumbs-up nor thumbs-down…

What does Justin Welby think about same-sex marriage? The answer seems to be, in the words of Herman Melville’s fictional character Bartleby the Scrivener: “I would prefer not to…”

There is a riddle at the heart of Martin Luther’s hymn “A Mighty Fortress.” The hymn poses a spiritual battle between God and the Devil (the Deceiver): The Prince of…

The year 1998 was the last time the Lambeth Conference spoke plainly. That it did so was something of a miracle. The Communion Establishment had carefully prepared an agenda whereby…

Reading an article today on the Feast of the Annunciation sparked a strong memory. My wife and daughter and I spent a glorious week at Christmas 2001 in Florence. While…

This is a blog about Anglicanism, the historic witness of Christian faith which took its distinctive form at the English Reformation and which has now spread worldwide to become Global…

Note on “Anecdotage”: From time to time I shall include shorter notes or reflections drawn from my threescore years and ten(+).  On April 5, 1967, I was a junior at…