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| Subject | Date Asked |
| Depose cleric to lay state | 12/19/2011 |
| Q: I understand that the Roman Catholic Church allows a cleric to be reduced to a lay state (laicized) ... A: It is desirable that Anglican priests should resign their orders if they are ceasing to minister as ... | |
| Anglicanism | 11/5/2011 |
| Q: All Glory to the Trinity! The Catholics say that Anglicanism was created by people who left the ... A: It depends where you're coming from. The church in England existed during the Roman Occupation, and ... | |
| Beginning | 11/2/2011 |
| Q: If you can clarify just one thing here. Somewhere in old testament talks about the two sons of Adam ... A: Not all Christians believe that Adam and Eve were the first humans, seeing Genesis as teaching ... | |
| Revelation | 10/31/2011 |
| Q: I would like if you can explain to me more about the book of Revelation. Some preacher say that at ... A: I doubt it. This style of writing ("apocalyptic") may never have been intended literally. Some would ... | |
| Catholic Church | 10/26/2011 |
| Q: Reverend, Just want if you can tell me when and how did the Catholic (or Roman Catholic Church) had ... A: The Catholic Church began with Jesus and the Apostles. The Bishop of Rome was accepted as its leader ... | |
| Sabbath | 10/25/2011 |
| Q: My name is Nelson and i am a member of the Anglican Church in the province of melanesia (Vanuatu. In ... A: The Old Testament shows that God established the seventh day as the Sabbath (originally just as a ... | |
| Sola Fide | 5/31/2011 |
| Q: Do Anglicans believe in the Sola Fide doctrine in the same way that Lutherans, Baptists and ... A: Article XI - Of the Justification of Man "We are accounted righteous before God, only for the merit ... | |
| Free Will | 4/17/2011 |
| Q: What is Anglican teaching about free will after death? Do we retain free will? A: There is no official Anglican teaching on this, but the general tenor of Anglican theology would be ... | |
| Trial of Christ | 4/16/2011 |
| Q: From a historical point of view, how do biblical scholars explain the account of the trial of Christ ... A: As there is no evidence as to how this was recorded, most commentators do not speculate. Some ... | |
| Marriage | 3/15/2011 |
| Q: Do you think that gay marriage could be conducted in an Anglican church? If not, what theological ... A: Objections to homosexual relationships are based on scriptures other than the gospels. Even if a ... | |
| Easter and Christmas collections | 1/9/2011 |
| Q: Is there a law specifying that both the Easter and Christmas takings are given to the priest? We ... A: Easter offerings were traditionally given to the priest to augment his income, but in the Church of ... | |
| Belief and Belonging | 12/18/2010 |
| Q: I am a member of the PCC for my local Anglican Church, I have gradually moved away from the fixed ... A: I'm a bit surprised that you're aghast at the idea that only Christians would be admitted to Heaven. ... | |
| Belief and Belonging | 12/16/2010 |
| Q: I am a member of the PCC for my local Anglican Church, I have gradually moved away from the fixed ... A: He that is not against me is with me. If the church itself has not got an established evangelical ... | |
| The Current USA Episcopal Church | 11/24/2010 |
| Q: Parish, I'm a member of the Episcopal Church here in the USA but I dont know for how much longer. ... A: Thew Forrester (I assume this is whom you mean as a Buddhist) was elected as bishop of Northern ... | |
| Christ in Heaven: Before and after incarnation | 11/4/2010 |
| Q: After reading Paradise Lost for my A-Levels at a college i became a little unsure as to the direct ... A: No, orthodox Trinitarian theology (Catholic and Protestant) is that Jesus is the Son of God - and ... | |
| Anglican prayer bead and the rosary and Christianity at large | 10/28/2010 |
| Q: Rev.Parish: I'm glad and thankful I found you here on All experts. Let me tell you a little ... A: If you've been on the internet looking up about the Anglican rosary, you're more of an expert about ... | |
| Gnostic Gospels | 10/6/2010 |
| Q: I recently watched a fascinating programme exploring the Lost Gospels.In your opinion, why have ... A: It's assumed that the "lost gospels" were lost because the church did not regard them as having ... | |
| Immortality of the soul or soul sleep | 8/18/2010 |
| Q: Which are we to believe - immortality of the soul or soul sleep followed by a resurrection? ... A: The basic issue is whether when Christians die they go to heaven, or "sleep" until the general ... | |
| Canon | 8/17/2010 |
| Q: What is the responsibility of a canon? What do they actually do? A: In the Church of England, and many other Anglican churches, the clergy who staff cathedrals are ... | |
| Numbers 15:35 | 8/6/2010 |
| Q: In the Old Testament is a verse about stoning a man: Then the LORD said to Moses, "The man must ... A: One suggestion is that stoning as a capital punishment meant that all the community shared the ... | |
| Giving the host to a dog | 8/1/2010 |
| Q: Recently in Canada an Anglican priest gave the eucharist host to a dog. Do you think this was wrong ... A: My initial reaction was that it was certainly inappropriate to give consecrated bread to a dog ... | |
| Son of God, Son of Man | 7/30/2010 |
| Q: Why is Jesus Christ referred to as Son of God, yet also Son of Man? Does it have anything to do ... A: but the Nicene Creed didn't make Jesus divine, just recognised that he was fully divine and fully ... | |
| anglicans belives | 7/13/2010 |
| Q: is the head of Anglicans church is the Queen are anglican protestants. is the Anglicans church the ... A: The English monarch is "supreme governor" of the Church of England. This means that she is the final ... | |
| the mother of jesus | 7/13/2010 |
| Q: is the mother of christ jesis a vergin A: The story of the virgin birth is in the gospels of Matthew and Luke. It is a matter of settled ... | |
| Q/quelle | 5/19/2010 |
| Q: Can you discuss further Q/quelle as it relates to the gospels? I found the following information: ... A: You can research a lot of this online, but basically Q is a hypothesis: that there is very similar ... | |
| Liturgy | 5/17/2010 |
| Q: I am a Roman Catholic who recently attended an Episcopalian funeral service and I was struck by how ... A: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Language_Liturgical_Consultation There have been some attempts ... | |
| Communion | 5/14/2010 |
| Q: Is it wrong to not partake in the Eucharist/holy communion? The church warden has implied that I am ... A: If you have a copy of the old prayer book, you'll find - in the middle of the service - exhortations ... | |
| Apostolic Succession | 3/1/2010 |
| Q: I live in America and am a member of the Episcopal Church. I just asked one of our online experts ... A: My impression is that for most of the significant "divines" (except perhaps Archbishop Laud) this ... | |
| 19th century tithing | 2/25/2010 |
| Q: I am researching an event in a small English village in the early 19th century which was inflamed by ... A: There's no absolute answer but in principle all agricultural produce was subject to the tithe (and ... | |
| Canon Law | 2/11/2010 |
| Q: How relevant is Canon law today? Can holy communion be left out of a Christmas day service e.g. to ... A: Under the Church of England's canon law you could have a service on Christmas Day without Holy ... | |
| judgement | 1/10/2010 |
| Q: Does God know what a person would have done had they lived longer or been in a different situation? ... A: I'm not quite sure if this sort of question qualifies as a "logical impossibility". If someone dies ... | |
| Reward | 1/6/2010 |
| Q: Is there differend levels of reward in heaven? Also do many Anglicans support annihilationism? That ... A: I'm not quite sure what rewards could be offered to distinguish one sort of heavenly bliss from ... | |
| free will | 12/28/2009 |
| Q: Do humans have a free choice? Is the future set in stone and we have no say in it? How does God ... A: Yes, we have free will. No, the future is not set in stone. There are traces of fatalism in the Old ... | |
| world, defense | 12/18/2009 |
| Q: What does it mean when it says love not the world or things in it? There is a lot of things I love ... A: It's a reminder that the things of the world will pass away, and that Christian living should be ... | |
| world, defense | 12/18/2009 |
| Q: What does it mean when it says love not the world or things in it? There is a lot of things I love ... A: Both questions are beyond a short answer. Some have argued that education and science are equally ... | |
| Church of England | 12/14/2009 |
| Q: I have been conscerned recently about my views being consonant/acceptable with the Church of England ... A: Well, I do. Within that wide spectrum of views there may be some who hold that an unbaptised infant ... | |
| Church of England | 12/13/2009 |
| Q: I have been conscerned recently about my views being consonant/acceptable with the Church of England ... A: I see little Scriptural evidence for regarding our earthly life as just a test. Dying young would ... | |
| Church of England | 12/8/2009 |
| Q: I have been conscerned recently about my views being consonant/acceptable with the Church of England ... A: It's hard to answer your main question. There are core beliefs to which most assent, but there are a ... | |
| Penance | 12/4/2009 |
| Q: Rev Steve Parish, How does the Church of England deal with post-baptismal sin. Does the Church of ... A: "After we have received the Holy Ghost, we may depart from grace given, and fall into sin, and by ... | |
| body or spirit | 11/16/2009 |
| Q: What is the nature of God is he corporeal (body) or incorporeal (spirit)? What is the Anglican ... A: You have to come at this from the belief in the Holy Trinity. God is spirit. He took flesh (body) in ... | |
| The "Gay Clergy" | 11/16/2009 |
| Q: What is the Episcopal Churches' official stance on Gay ministers? As far as I have been able to find ... A: I'm afraid this is a very fraught issue. The Anglican Communion has an understanding that no ... | |
| life after 'life after death' | 11/13/2009 |
| Q: I just got finished reading N.T. Wright's Simply Christian and it sounds as if life after life after ... A: The idea that our "western" strict division between the earthly and heavenly realms is not true to ... | |
| Catholic becoming Anglican | 11/13/2009 |
| Q: Parish, I see that you have gotten many questions on this topic, so I'm sorry to ask more of the ... A: Those priests who have returned to the Anglican church tend not to be very public about their ... | |
| catholic and anglican | 11/9/2009 |
| Q: Is there any catholics who turned Anglican?if yes what are the conditions to be Anglican? Is it ... A: There are lots of former Roman Catholics who have become Anglicans. The Church of England says that ... | |
| Real Presence | 11/3/2009 |
| Q: What is the difference between transubstantiation and the real presence of christ? A: The World Council of Churches attempted a brief synthesis of this question, in 1982. The full ... | |
| Supersessionism | 10/28/2009 |
| Q: Do Anglicans/Episcopals believe in supersessionism? A: In brief (depending on what is meant by supersessionism) it would be hard not to see Acts 4:12 (no ... | |
| Heaven | 10/15/2009 |
| Q: In heaven will we wear clothes or just our birthday suits, as Hebrews says we will be naked before ... A: Revelation 6:11 suggests that white robes might be worn in heaven. If heaven is a restoration of ... | |
| Scrupulosity | 8/5/2009 |
| Q: I've considered joining the Roman Catholic Church many times, but that isn't relevant to my question ... A: This sounds like "Catholic guilt" even before you become a Catholic. I'm not sure I can counsel you ... | |
| Codex Sinaiticus | 7/6/2009 |
| Q: What do you think of the news of the soon to be published Codex Sinaiticus? It seems as The Bible is ... A: Textual criticism is not my field, but so far as I know Codex Sinaiticus includes all the ... | |
| CofE Baptism | 7/6/2009 |
| Q: I have been asked to be a godparent by a male friend who has just had a baby. However, there are ... A: Does the mother intend to make the baptism promises? The service assumes that the parents are making ... | |
| There are not angelican or orthodox Churches were im from | 6/30/2009 |
| Q: and exactly were did you find that i had a way's to go? Im so tired of all these divisions in the ... A: "Lay" comes from Greek "laos", people, so "lay people" really means people people. The distinction ... | |
| Old Testament | 4/22/2009 |
| Q: Should a Christian necessarily read the Old Testament? I am no scholar but God appears to be cruel, ... A: It would be hard to recommend one book without knowing the prior understanding of the reader. I ... | |
| Prayer for Dead | 4/21/2009 |
| Q: I appreciate your response to a question I recently asked. It was very helpful for me! Thank you! I ... A: I don't think there are any prayers for the dead in the Book of Common Prayer (at least not the 1662 ... | |
| His Sabbath verses mans | 4/8/2009 |
| Q: It is my belief that the Creator of life and death, day and night, good and evil very ... A: With the usual reservations about wikipedia, the history of the transition to worship on the first ... | |
| Faith | 1/10/2009 |
| Q: Three very different questions. 1) Do you think the Anglican Commmnion should split, allowing the ... A: 1. The Anglican Communion is split. The main question is whether we end up with separate ... | |
| Holy Communion Mishap | 12/21/2008 |
| Q: .i have a serious question about my recent mishap at holy communion...first let me say that in our ... A: As it happened, just yesterday, after one of our assistants at communion said they'd not take the ... | |
| The Anglican Church and Abortion | 12/13/2008 |
| Q: Please can you tell me as much as you can about the official position of the Anglican Church ... A: There is no "official position" but it is an issue often discussed and on which synods pass ... | |
| Trinity and Jesus | 11/29/2008 |
| Q: I get really confused when I hear about the Trinity, I asked some one to explain it to me recently ... A: I can't imagine how that advice was really meant to help understand the Trinity. I'm not sure how ... | |
| al fatiha | 10/6/2008 |
| Q: I am an anglican and I am marrying a muslim. As part of the engagement she would like for us to say ... A: I see what you mean - can our God as Trinity be the same God as their non-Trinitarian God? I think ... | |
| God command of killing | 8/25/2008 |
| Q: steve An Atheist asked me if your God Jesus is love and love us then why He command Saul to killed ... A: At http://www.christian-thinktank.com/rbutcher1.html you'll find a lengthy argument that the ... | |
| Throne and Lamb | 8/21/2008 |
| Q: According to Anglicans Who is sit on the Throne in Revelation 4:10 and who is the lamb in ... A: First, Anglicans/Episcopalians have no "authorised" understanding of any of scripture but do have ... | |
| Jesus | 3/11/2008 |
| Q: Three questions, all theological. Firstly, why didn't Jesus' disciples recognise him after the ... A: 1. Either his face was physically different, or simply, they were kept from recognising him. J B ... | |
| question on anglicanism. | 2/10/2008 |
| Q: From what I have heard, the Anglican church is a little like the catholic church, but i am confused ... A: There is within the Anglican communion a wide spectrum of views. Historically known as ... | |
| eaucharist | 12/1/2007 |
| Q: what do they believe in when it comes to the eucharist A: Article 28 of the Church of England's 39 articles says the Lord's Supper is a Sacrament of our ... | |
| clergy | 11/7/2007 |
| Q: I understand that the Anglican/Episcopal Church ordains female ministers. Can you explain how this ... A: Paul's apparent prohibitions on women teaching are not that clear cut, e.g. from 1 Corinthians 11 ... | |
| Easter in the Bible | 4/8/2007 |
| Q: Can to give me a reason why the word Easter is in only found in the KJV of the Bible and all other ... A: There are two possible explanations: that the translators reckoned that (because of the reference to ... | |
| C of E and RC | 12/17/2006 |
| Q: Have you got a date for exactly when the Pope accepted the Church of England as a legitimate faith ? ... A: I'm not sure the Pope has accepted the Church of England as a legitimate faith. Whatever else is ... | |
| Heaven | 11/16/2006 |
| Q: Ok, so how does one get into heaven? I don't understand the Articles that you wrote about.In the ... A: Article XI says we are saved by faith in Christ; the only way that we can be regarded as "righteous" ... | |
| Heaven | 11/15/2006 |
| Q: In the Anglican belief system, what does one have to do to be able to get into heaven? Is it faith, ... A: Nothing's ever quite that straightforward in the Anglican communion. Few people even talk about a ... | |
| salvation | 11/9/2006 |
| Q: Heres my perspective...Dont know anything, way too much info and stimulus out there undiscovered, ... A: Jeff, I hardly know where to start. For facts, there are plenty of basic Christian belief books ... | |
| Common Worship Calendar | 10/26/2006 |
| Q: Over the last two years, I've been reading and learning about the fascinating William Tyndale. I ... A: Cranmer would be another in the list who was responsible for the martyrdom of a reformer (John ... | |
| ID | 9/28/2006 |
| Q: Do you think a Christian must beleive in an 'intelligent design' of some description rather then ... A: I think it's quite possible for a Christian to 'believe' in the theory of evolution. Does God design ... | |
| systematic theologies | 8/10/2006 |
| Q: Parish, I am currently a seminary student at an independent evangelical seminary, and have been ... A: It's hard to know where to start. There are classic historic texts but they were sometimes written ... | |
| about trinitas | 4/19/2006 |
| Q: i wanna asking about trinitas how god became 3 couse i think god is one A: There is one God. The first Christian disciples believed that, and most Christians agree with that ... | |
| Jesus | 1/17/2006 |
| Q: Does any contemporary evidence of Jesus Christ prove his existence in history or do we rely on ... A: http://www.worldinvisible.com/library/ffbruce/ntdocrli/ntdocont.htm See the chapters on early ... | |
| Sabbath | 9/7/2005 |
| Q: I have looked throughout the entire Bible from cover-to-cover and cannot find a single text to ... A: Anglicans do it because the majority of Christendom does. Just search on google for Sunday Sabbath ... | |
| Canon Law | 8/21/2005 |
| Q: As far as I know the Lutheran church and other Protestant churches don't have Canon law ie after the ... A: At the Reformation, the Church of England didn't form its own canon law. The Submission of the ... | |
| church | 6/25/2005 |
| Q: I belong to the Roman Catholic Church. Could you tell me if there is any difference between the ... A: The Anglican church regards itself as Protestant and Catholic! The essential difference is as much ... | |
| Tithing | 5/23/2005 |
| Q: Are Anglicans required to tithe, i.e. giving back 10% of income to the Church? What is the Anglican ... A: Very few denominations "require" tithing. Two centuries ago, the Church of England would have ... | |
| Jesus | 2/25/2005 |
| Q: My question is simply put this, Where in the bible do Jesus ever say he is the son of God? Thank You ... A: Simple answer is Nowhere. Jesus appears to accept the title in Matthew 16:16-17. Luke 22:70-71 ... | |
| The nature of Sin | 1/20/2005 |
| Q: I am currently working on a personal project about the nature of Sin. I am the artist and co-author ... A: I'm sorry but that's way too complex. The Church of England's articles of religion from the 17th ... | |
| Anglican Communion | 10/4/2004 |
| Q: Here is a quote - THE DIOCESE IN EUROPE, part of the Church of England, covers all of Europe ... A: No, they are all in the Diocese of Europe, under the one "Bishop of Gibraltar in Europe" - an odd ... | |
| Anglican Bishops in the sixteenth century | 10/3/2004 |
| Q: Followup To Question - Dear Rev Parish, When Henry VIII broke with Rome in the sixteenth ... A: It had gone up to 26 by the 19th century, and has been increased several times then and since to 43 ... | |
| Anglican Bishops in the sixteenth century | 10/3/2004 |
| Q: When Henry VIII broke with Rome in the sixteenth century, I suppose that Roman Catholic bishops in ... A: I'm not going to the stake for this list, but I think there were 14: Canterbury York London ... | |
| Anglican Bishops in the sixteenth century | 10/3/2004 |
| Q: When Henry VIII broke with Rome in the sixteenth century, I suppose that Roman Catholic bishops in ... A: Statistics are a bit complicated because Henry created 6 new bishoprics. Wolsey was deprived from ... | |
| Saints | 9/16/2004 |
| Q: Does the Anglican church have any system of canonisation like the RC and the Eastern Orthodox ... A: Charles, No there is no method of canonisation. Saint in the New Testament generally refers to any ... | |
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Rev Steve Parish
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Expertise
I hope to answer questions on the theology, history, and constitution (there isn`t one!) of the Church of England (but not necessarily on the wider Anglican Communion)
Experience
A priest in the Church of England for over 30 years, with some specialist knowledge of the 19th century
I hold a Master's degree in Applied Theology
Publications
Church Times; Church of England Newspaper; Lion Encyclopedia of the Bible
Publications
Church Times; Church of England Newspaper; Lion Encyclopedia of the Bible
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