Many Evangelical churches replace historic creeds with corporate-style mission statements, valuing vision over confession. Drawing on Carl Trueman’s The Creedal Imperative, this post argues that every church has a creed—whether public and accountable or private and untested. Reformation Anglicans, by contrast, embrace the ancient creeds “proved by most certain warran...

American Evangelicalism often chases after “the next big thing,” driven by novelty and personality rather than confession and continuity. In contrast, Reformation Anglicanism finds stability and joy in the “old paths” of Scripture, creed, and confession. Drawing on Carl Trueman’s The Creedal Imperative, this essay shows why creeds are not lifeless relics but livi...

This article offers a pastoral response to a chart circulating on social media titled “Keeping Doctrine in Its Place,” which misclassifies Lordship Salvation as a secondary issue and, in doing so, risks confusing believers about the very heart of the gospel. Drawing on R. Scott Clark’s 25-part critique of John MacArthur’s The Gospel According to Jesus, it argues th...

The Nicene Creed confesses both the Son and the Holy Spirit as Lord. This article shows how Reformation Christianity upholds the one saving Lordship of the triune God, contrasting it with “Lordship Salvation,” which turns the confession “Jesus is Lord” from a declaration of Christ’s deity into a moral condition for salvation. True lordship is confessed in the gos...

This article contrasts John Calvin’s Reformation doctrine of justification by faith alone with Jonathan Edwards’s later “dispositional soteriology.” Drawing from Calvin’s Institutes (3.11) and the Reformed confessions, it shows that saving faith is receptive—accepting, receiving, and resting on Christ’s righteousness alone—while Edwards’s model redefines ...

This reflection explores the Prayer After Communion in the 1662 Book of Common Prayer (often called the Prayer of Oblation). Gospel-shaped and Trinitarian, the prayer moves from thanksgiving to Christ’s merits, to self-offering, grace, humility, and doxology. It beautifully embodies the gospel of grace and gratitude: grace first, gratitude second....

This article examines whether the Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion forbid Eucharistic adoration. Drawing on Articles 25 and 28 and Gerald Bray’s The Faith We Confess, it explains why Anglicans reject reservation, elevation, and adoration of the consecrated elements, and instead embrace Word and Sacrament as Christ’s appointed means of grace....

This article responds to recent criticisms of episcopacy by showing how Reformation Anglicanism distinguishes between the esse and bene esse of the church. While Anglo-Catholics treat bishops as essential to the church’s very existence, Reformation Anglicans hold that the gospel alone is the essence of the church, with qualified episcopacy serving its well-being. Rooted ...

Anglicanism isn’t a vague nostalgia—it’s a Reformation identity anchored in Scripture and the historic formularies (Articles, 1662 BCP, Ordinal, Homilies). Here’s why Paramount Church embraces Reformation Anglicanism, articulated by our Rector, John Fonville, Director of the Center for Reformation Anglicanism....

Many dismiss the Book of Common Prayer’s liturgy as “mere repetition,” but repetition is what forms us in Christ. Rooted in the Reformation, Anglican worship shapes our hearts, grounds us in Scripture, and offers deeper gospel fluency than the shallow novelties of modern Evangelical worship....