benjamindcrosby.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

I'm not super active here anyway, but just a heads-up that I will be off for Lent. If you're interested in keeping in touch, best way to follow my work is my Substack, bencrosby.substack.com. Feel free to DM for other contact info.

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

A new Substack from me, looking at a 17th c. moment of cross-confessional generosity and what it might say to us today. ⚓

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

This is an excellent point by @benjamindcrosby.bsky.social. A weakened, diluted doctrinal heritage puts an unsustainable weight on Communion structures of institutional membership as a means of defining 'Anglican'. livingchurch.org/covenant/wha...

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

A new Substack from me today, in which I suggest that a prominent TEC bishop's publicly stated approach to church discipline displays a worrying misunderstanding of the canons, of episcopal power, and the relationship between 'pastoral' and 'judicial' approaches to clergy discipline. ⚓

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Behold, possibly the most @benjamindcrosby.bsky.social statement ever made:

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

A new Substack from me: thinking about keeping the Lord's Day with Lewis Bayly, Jeremy Taylor, and King James.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Great stuff from @benjamindcrosby.bsky.social: "I am increasingly convinced of the value of using real, good bread – not just ‘to take away the supersticion’, as the rubric says, but also to give the signs their full representational force". anglicanway.org/the-bread-wh...

submitted 27 days ago • 5 comments

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

A new Substack from me -- a bit of a long one -- reflecting on how Christian teaching might offer a corrective to our post-Christian moral common sense in thinking about desire. ⚓

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Made my preaching debut in the CofE yesterday at St Chad's, where the Revd Hannah Richardson is priest-in-charge. The sermon big idea: Jesus is baptized because he takes on our sin to give us his righteousness. great exchange ✔️ imputed righteousness ✔️ justification by faith ✔️

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

A new Substack from me, on a fascinating church decoration scheme I discovered at a church in the north of England:

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

As I was digging through my old Twitter account, I came across this excellent thread by @benjamindcrosby.bsky.social and felt the need to archive it for those who missed it.

submitted 56 days ago • 2 comments

I really enjoyed this (and Part 1, which Ben links to at the beginning of this piece) from @blueberrymill.bsky.social on the underappreciated beauty of the Athanasian Creed, and how one might use it in daily prayer.

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

A new Substack from me, responding to an important objection to my writing on church decline: am I neglecting broad drivers of decline and secularization and thus blaming the church for things that aren't really its fault? ⚓

submitted 59 days ago • 4 comments

It's time.

submitted 59 days ago • 1 comment

Mr. Casaubon from Middlemarch is really a perfect cautionary tale for the PhD student for why you just need to write the dang dissertation.

submitted 60 days ago • 2 comments

Want to use the Book of Common Prayer? Here's a how-to guide-- www.amazon.com/How-Use-Book...

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

For an end-of-the-year post, I went back through my Substack archives to see my most popular pieces from 2024. I wanted to share the most popular one again. It's about ecclesiastical gaslighting: the disconnect between what we say we confess & what in practice we often actually do. ⚓