Joan Bocher, The Anabaptist Firebrand of Kent
One woman who blazed a trail of defiance in the storm of England’s Reformation, wielding Scripture like a torch against Catholic and Protestant powers alike.
One woman who blazed a trail of defiance in the storm of England’s Reformation, wielding Scripture like a torch against Catholic and Protestant powers alike.
The Protestant Reformation had reshaped Christianity, as its currents ran deeper than Luther’s theses or Calvin’s Institutes. But among the radicals stood the Anabaptists, who were a movement bent on stripping the church back to its New Testament bones.
While hiking up Ben Bouie this morning, my mind with my stereotypical thoughts surrounding Mother’s Day. I viewed the UK’s Mothering Sunday as a Roman Catholic, Mary-worshipping observance, intertwined with Lent, which I found unbiblical and questionable.
Hi, it is great to see you and hope you are well! I want you to know, I have been thinking about something lately, and I would love to bounce it off you. We have got this shared history, Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, and it is wild how our paths split from there, right!
I watched Tousi TV on YouTube today about The Reverend Canon Father Phil Harris, an Anglo-Catholic priest from St James Church in the West Midlands, who the Anglican Church recently sacked.