by Mark Marshall | Aug 30, 2023 | History, Roman Catholics, Totalitarians, Woke Church
Pope John Paul II travelled around the world as no Pope had before and no Pope since. He flew into quite a number of varied situations. But few of them had the tension of his arrival in Managua, Nicaragua in March 1983. The cabinet of the Marxist Sandinista junta were...
by Mark Marshall | Jul 20, 2023 | Academia, History
St. Swithin (or Swithun) is a much beloved saint in the English church. His holiday was this past Saturday. He is probably most well known for a certain legendary weather forecast not of his doing. As told by Fr. Gregory Wilcox: Swithin died, the most beloved of...
by Mark Marshall | Jul 6, 2023 | Anglicans, Apostasy, Church Growth, False Teachers and Their Enablers, LGBTQIetc, Social Justice, Theological Liberalism, Totalitarians, Vichycon, Woke Church
Two summers ago, I wrote here “Wokeness is Not Winsome.” I asserted that the notion that church focus on woke “justice” attracts people is a half-truth at best. Though wokeness attracts some, it drives off and repels core faithful Christians along with any number of...
by Mark Marshall | Jun 29, 2023 | Anglicans, False Teachers and Their Enablers, LGBTQIetc, Sexuality, Social Justice, Totalitarians, Vichycon, Woke Church
Back during the Cold War, the phenomenon of the Anti-Anti-Communists arose. They did not call themselves that, not that I remember. And they would have been outraged if you suggested they were allies or agents of the Soviet Union. Suggesting they actually were...
by Mark Marshall | Jun 26, 2023 | Anglicans, Bible Study, Church Growth, Jesus
We here at Stand Firm are normally not a sermon site. But numbers can be such an issue among Anglicans, I think I should make an exception and post the sermon on “small numbers” that I preached yesterday at Providence Reformed Episcopal Church, Corpus Christi.Most...