Today, continuing my mini-series on the Church Calendar, I want to talk about one of the most overlooked feast days in the entire Christian year: the Feast of the Ascension of our Lord. This is because, for many Christians, the liturgical year revolves around Christmas, Good Friday, Easter, and perhaps Pentecost if you are lucky. Yet Ascension Day often passes almost unnoticed. I think this is unfortunate, and here's why... As always, please, if you have any questions, thoughts, or ideas for future episodes, leave them in the comments below. Also, feel free to subscribe to this channel so that you will be notified anytime a new episode is released, as well as my Substack where you can find some of my more academic work on these subjects. Thank you so much for listening! God bless!

This is an important follow-up to my previous discussion on women’s ordination within the Anglican Church in North America and the broader Anglican tradition. We will discuss exactly why the Church depends upon the wisdom, holiness, spiritual motherhood, discipleship, hospitality, leadership, sacrifice, and faithfulness of women, as well as why rejecting women’s ordination must never become the rejection of women in ministry. Thank you so much for listening! God bless!

Welcome back to “Theology on Ice: A Reformed Catholic Podcast.” I am your host, Sean D. Gates, and today I want to attempt to discuss one of the most tense theological debates of our modern era that is especially relevant in my own province of the ACNA. That is, the issue of Women’s Holy Orders, focusing specifically on the question of whether one church can simultaneously ordain women and not ordain women? As always, please, if you have any questions, thoughts, or ideas for future episodes, leave them in the comments below. Also, feel free to subscribe to this channel so that you will be notified anytime a new episode is released. Thank you so much for listening! God bless!

This episode is a Part II to an older episode I made a little over a year ago on Infant Baptism (Ep 03). Since some time has passed, I want to come back here and offer some new thoughts that I have developed and make another, more polished, defense of Paedobaptism. As always, please, if you have any questions, thoughts, or ideas for future episodes, leave them in the comments below. Also, feel free to subscribe to this channel so that you will be notified anytime a new episode is released. Thank you so much for listening! I can’t wait for next time when I invite you back and you pull up a chair, light your cigar, and grab your drink so that together we can once again pour some theology on ice. God bless!

In today’s episode, we will explore why Anglicanism retains bishops, what apostolic succession means, and why this ancient structure continues to matter in the life of the Church today. As always, please, if you have any questions, thoughts, or ideas for future episodes, leave them in the comments below. Also, feel free to subscribe to this channel so that you will be notified anytime a new episode is released. Thank you so much for listening! God bless!

Everything in the Christian life leads here. Not Christmas. Not even Good Friday. Everything leads to Easter. That is why today I am here to add onto my mini-series on the Church Calendar with a brief overview of Easter, the events and symbolism of the greatest celebration in all of Christendom. As always, please, if you have any questions, thoughts, or ideas for future episodes, leave them in the comments below. Also, feel free to subscribe to this channel so that you will be notified anytime a new episode is released. Thank you so much for listening! God bless!