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'Together with her we shall be indeed blessed': Bishop Bull echoing Augustine, Calvin, and Jewel

'In the midst of life we are in death': the Prayer Book against the tyranny of toxic positivity

Yale Apostasy Day: Anglicanism with a New England character

'The heresy of Calvin is not new': the irony of the Tractarian attempt to invoke Ratramnus

'The plainest and most instructive portions of the New Testament': the one year lectionary at the Holy Communion

'Every one of us may sing the Magnificat': Bishop Bull on reverence of the Blessed Virgin

'Reading the holy Scriptures is a duty expressly commanded us': encouraging the confident reading of Scripture

Eve of Gloriana Day: why a certain nostalgia for the Elizabethan parish church can be a good thing

'Neither on the Sacrifice nor the Presence are his views in any way similar to Mr. Keble's': Laudians against Keble

'To express veneration for the words of our Lord': the reading of the Epistle and Gospel at the Holy Communion

'We will not give her lavish and excessive attributes': Bishop Bull on reverence of the Blessed Virgin

'Let not your sermons be busy arguings': wisdom from Jeremy Taylor on preaching