Ecclesiastical bibs and bobs

• Some history of Orthodox-Protestant dialogue.
• When is it apostasy? A loyal Episcopal priest and I agree (!).
• Catching up with Anglo-Catholic Ruminations: ‘The Anglo-Catholic Movement ... has gone to sleep.’ Fr Franklin Joiner (more) saw the end coming in 1944 and tried to avert it. Well, chaps, we had a good run.
• The Calvinists blame us for Modernism today. A trope in conservative Anglicanism I’m used to: is Broad Churchmanship’s victory blowback from Newman’s deconstruction of the Calvinist-tinged Articles in Tract XC? Part of the answer to give Kensit’s spiritual sons today is from a liberal, Theo Hobson: the English Church has been Erastian (which Hobson likes) since it went into schism; conscientious Christians in it always felt bad about that compromise and among them Evangelicals (the ‘pure word of God’ as read by Calvin), Methodists (get away from the dead hand of the state and focus on personal holiness through a disciplined life of service; BTW Calvin was wrong on the total depravity of human nature and double predestination) and we (undo the evil of the 1500s and look to the infallible Catholic Church of the ages for the English Church’s real character, we thought) were all trying to fix it. The second part: the Protestants make an interesting point about unintended consequences but of course their premise is wrong too; common knowledge a quick read of history can disabuse them of.
• Another Protestant view of us. But not an unsympathetic one. From Huw who’s in a position to know and is honest about being ‘Protestant by default’ which gets my respect.
• A thread on church infallibility.
• Good news: most Americans still celebrate Easter. From T1:9.