Sunday, June 26, 2011

An Exchange with a Reader of Reformed Anglicanism

NC/SC/GA "Southerner" living out here in Southern California ... spiritually starving w/o very good churches here, so I'm looking to leave this decadent state in the near future.

I'm a Calvinist (attended RTS-Orlando, graduated from Greenville Seminary w/ M.Div., Erskine College, B.S.), was licentiate in ARP, PCA, OPC ... before leaving behind ministerial pursuits for a career in IT. I quietly follow BCP daily prayers as a part of my own private daily devotions.

Have strong desire but very difficult for me to even participate in much of the worship at local ACNA parishes ... feel like a complete outsider since the liturgy is highly Anglo-Catholic. I live just around the corner from All Saints Anglican - Long Beach, CA. I wonder what J.I. Packer or C.S. Lewis would think of the theology there.

Would love to be a part of a community of believers outside of my normal commmunion ... but too hocus-pocus, watered down for me.

Searching for Reformed Anglicanism, so I started following you on Twitter about a week ago. Thanks for the blogging help you no doubt are unaware that you are providing.

~TheThrillOfKip
June 26, 2011 2:20 AM
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BloggerReformation said...

Kip:

We sound very much alike. Just switch the names and a few places of study around, but otherwise, an exact replication of my orientation of disorientation--or, disclocation, disjointedness and grieving dissatisfaction.

If this blog has been a help to you, then, that fact alone, warrants the continuance of the effort. There are others like you.

Best regards,
Phil
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2 comments:

  1. HudsonJune 26, 2011 at 1:27 PM

    Yes. Our community (estranged from ACNA) is growing, albeit slowly. The blogging community is especially active. A few additional blogs that nearly always express an Anglo-Reformed perspective:
    http://anglo-reformed.org http://facebook.com/anglicansinthewilderness
    http://reasonablechristian.blogspot.com/ http://www.vincevincevince.com/ http://theworldsruined.blogspot.com/ http://anglicansablaze.blogspot.com/

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  2. ReformationJune 26, 2011 at 2:02 PM

    Hudson:

    http://anglo-reformed.org
    Making sure this is on my blog. Also, earnestly wish there was more active updates. We have no other leading voices. We are like the early church facing the Graeco-Roman world of old.
    http://facebook.com/anglicansinthewilderness
    This too is good when there are active posts.

    http://reasonablechristian.blogspot.com/
    Charlie is very active and always followed here--not in every particular, but in many.

    http://www.vincevincevince.com/
    Thanks, this one is new, but it is not very active.

    http://theworldsruined.blogspot.com/
    I've seen Jack around the net, but didn't know he had a blog.


    http://anglicansablaze.blogspot.com/
    This is a daily read. Will post all this for visibility.

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