Arthur Kay
9 articles
Hacking and Honing
Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend’s countenance (Proverbs 27:17). I am grateful to the four respondents to my little essay about communion rails. There has been some hacking [ ;-) ] but they have honed my outlook and I hope that, in some degree at least, I…
Why I Hate Communion Rails
Preliminary author’s note: from 2016 to 2021 I was a presbyter in a small Anglican denomination called the Free Church of England (FCE) which broke away from the Church of England in the mid-19 th century over the latter’s perceived drift towards Romanism. The FCE’s Book of Common Prayer (BCP)…
The Donkey
G.K. Chesterton assumes a surprising and memorable perspective from which to view the events of Palm Sunday (Matthew 21:1-11) The Donkey by: G.K. Chesterton When fishes flew and forests walked And figs grew upon thorn, Some moment when the moon was blood Then surely I was born. With monstrous head…
The True Temple & The True Sacrifice
The Gospel reading for the third Sunday in Lent this year (John 2:13-22) was enclosed by two verses (13 and 23) each of which mentions Jerusalem, the city where God chose to place His Name and habitation, and the Passover, the festival which, above all others, speaks of the Lamb…
Streams in the Desert
And there came a voice from heaven, saying, Thou art my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. And immediately the Spirit driveth him into the wilderness. And he was there in the wilderness forty days, tempted of Satan; and was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered…
A Glad New Day
19 Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you. 20 And when he had so…
The Manger
It seems a truism to say that we live in the world: that the world is outside of us. In reality the world is very much inside of us too. In fact the world passes through us as much as we pass through it. We breathe in its air, using…
Integrity
Integrity seems to have two meanings. It can mean the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles. A man of integrity is a person of honour, rectitude and probity, truthful and trustworthy. Integrity also describes a state – the quality of being whole and undivided. If things are…
The True Jonah and Lenten Fasting
Mark’s narrative of the baptism of Jesus is characteristically brief: “In those days Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan. And when he came up out of the water, immediately he saw the heavens being torn open and the Spirit descending on him…