by Mark Marshall | Dec 8, 2020 | Advent, Church Year, Eschatology, Uncategorized
When most people think of the Book of Revelation, they think of strange scary monsters and creative and most unpleasant plagues in the End times. I know I did until recently. But there is so much more to the Apocalypse of St. John. Above all, there is worship,...
by Mark Marshall | Dec 1, 2020 | Social Justice, Woke Church
The woke, both in and outside of the institutional church, see racism everywhere. As the publicity for Jemar Tisby’s next book has it, “Racism is pervasive in today’s world, and many are complicit…” In the woke worldview even math can be racist. And, my, don’t...
by Mark Marshall | Nov 21, 2020 | Advent, Church Year, Eschatology, History, Totalitarians
The Sunday Next Before Advent has long been one of my favorite Sundays of the church year. First, the name just sounds amusingly Anglican to me. That may say more about me than about the name, but anyway… Of slightly more importance, it heralds...
by Mark Marshall | Nov 17, 2020 | Freedom of Speech, History, Totalitarians, U.S. Politics, Woke Church
Events this past Saturday in Washington D. C. speak volumes about where we are as a country. First, thousands gathered in the capital to support President Trump and to protest the fraudulent election. (That the election was fraudulent has become so obvious I will not...
by Mark Marshall | Nov 2, 2020 | Anglicans, Religious Freedom, Social Justice, U.S. Politics, Woke Church
I’ve been around clergy enough to cut them some slack and maybe some grace. If they avoid preaching heresy in most sermons, obey most of the Ten Commandments on good days, and rarely repay evil for good, then I’m good . . . as long as they don’t butcher the liturgy,...