Reformed Churchmen

We are Confessional Calvinists and a Prayer Book Church-people. In 2012, we remembered the 350th anniversary of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer; also, we remembered the 450th anniversary of John Jewel's sober, scholarly, and Reformed "An Apology of the Church of England." In 2013, we remembered the publication of the "Heidelberg Catechism" and the influence of Reformed theologians in England, including Heinrich Bullinger's Decades. For 2014: Tyndale's NT translation. For 2015, John Roger, Rowland Taylor and Bishop John Hooper's martyrdom, burned at the stakes. Books of the month. December 2014: Alan Jacob's "Book of Common Prayer" at: http://www.amazon.com/Book-Common-Prayer-Biography-Religious/dp/0691154813/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1417814005&sr=8-1&keywords=jacobs+book+of+common+prayer. January 2015: A.F. Pollard's "Thomas Cranmer and the English Reformation: 1489-1556" at: http://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Cranmer-English-Reformation-1489-1556/dp/1592448658/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1420055574&sr=8-1&keywords=A.F.+Pollard+Cranmer. February 2015: Jaspar Ridley's "Thomas Cranmer" at: http://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Cranmer-Jasper-Ridley/dp/0198212879/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1422892154&sr=8-1&keywords=jasper+ridley+cranmer&pebp=1422892151110&peasin=198212879

Sunday, February 5, 2012

Religious War: Obama Administration and Vatican

Religious war and the Vatican/American Romanist communion has broken on American shores. The story has been in the 24/7 news cycle since 1/29/2012. Obama's dragoons have, by virtue of the Affordable Care Act, directed that the Romanist institutions--universities, adoption agencies, hospitals, and various charities--provide health care coverage for its 1 million employees and students that includes contraception services, IUDs, abortifacients, etc. Romanists constitute 27% of the American electorate and, while often voting Democratic, may play a deciding role in the Obama v. (likely) Romney showdown in Nov. 2012 election. Gingrich addresses Obama's war on the First Amendment, free exercise, government repression, hubris, insensitivity and, if we may, stupidity. Also, Romanist military chaplains across the service branches--USMC, USN, USA, and USAF--read their Archbishop's letter opposing/contra: Obama's dictum at military chapels 1/29/2012 despite directives to desist from Chiefs of Chaplains. You may be sure that DOD, USN, USAF, USMC, and USA JAG Officers at the highest levels have one massive problem: military chaplains DISOBEYING orders from the Commander-in-Chief. This much??!! The Romanists will not roll-over for this community-organizer-turned Senator-turned US President. Obama has just jumped a legal shark--a great white tiger shark--that will dislodge Obama on the issue and have him for breakfast. This is not some unintentional gaffe by Obama, but is premeditated with cool and extended deliberativeness. Watch for this to be "another" substantial matter in Obama's defeat in Nov. 2012.


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