Wunderbar Insights on "The 39 Articles: What do they do?"

In the second video of our exploration of the the 39 Articles, Canon Ashey discusses what these statements "do" for us as Anglicans. Citing Dr. J.I. Packer's "The 39 Articles: Their Place and Use Today," Canon Ashey describes them as declaratory, didactic, defensive and doxological.

There is some word on the street, unconfirmed, that an interest in the Thirty-nine Articles is growing. Mr. (Rev. Canon) Ashley gives a short clip (1 minute, 47 seconds). 

We ask, "That's it?" 

We'll ask the question again, "That's it?" 

We'll pinch ourselves and conclude, "Yes, that's it." 

Or, in another well-meant and failed effort to be less churlish, we'll ask the same question another way. "Can't a few more ounces of modest imagination produce, say, 5 minutes?" 

By the way, we intend to open up inquiries on the Thirty-nine. 

Here's the 1 minute-47 second Wunderbar-clip. 

Why isn't someone interviewing Jim Packer? Getting him on the record? Or, Gerald Bray? Some heavy-hitters? Why? Because there are forces working against these 39 Articles, truth be told. Bob of Pittsburgh could fix this in about 30 days.

But, to be fully charitable, we can exclaim:  "Well, at least someone offered 1 minute, 47 seconds to the topic of the Thirty-nine Articles in the United States by someone from an Anglican outlet in the year of our LORD, 2013.  That is news!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8U6WEbli0