Theology on Ice: A Reformed Catholic Podcast

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 unf...

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 re...

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 ord...

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 fre...

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 episod...

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...

In this episode, I continue through the Church Calendar with a brief overview of Holy Week. 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!

EXTRA: Let me explain... I just want to be honest with you and myself. God bless!

Few books have shaped Christian worship in the English-speaking world more profoundly than the Book of Common Prayer, so today I am here to discuss how the Anglican Book of Common Prayer both shapes, informs, and teaches us theology. 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 s...

In Article 3, the Jerusalem Declaration states that orthodox Anglicans uphold: “the four Ecumenical Councils and the three historic Creeds.” For many modern Christians, that statement raises an important question: What exactly were the first four ecumenical councils? Why were they called? What controversies were they addressing? And what conclusions did they reach that Anglicans today still affirm...

Few doctrines in Christian theology have provoked as much discussion—and sometimes controversy as predestination. In this episode, we’ll explore 1) what the Thirty-Nine Articles actually say about predestination, 2) how early Anglicans understood that teaching, and 3) why modern Anglicans interpret the doctrine in different ways. As always, please, if you have any questions, thoughts, or ideas for...

How do Anglicans do theology? Well, one of the defining characteristics of Anglicanism is this very issue. We rely on three main sources: Scripture, Tradition, and Reason. This episode discusses all this and more! 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 n...

Here’s a strange experience many people have the first time they encounter Anglicanism. You visit one Anglican church, and it feels almost indistinguishable from an Evangelical Protestant service. There’s preaching, hymns, simple liturgy, and not much ceremony. Then you visit another Anglican parish. Suddenly there are priests in vestments, incense rising during the Eucharist, candles burning on t...

In a world so busy and distracting and in great need of Jesus, I strongly believe that the Church is in desperate need of holy men and women who dedicate their lives to prayer and fasting on behalf of the Church and the World. In this episode, I invite you to dream with me about what it might look like if the Anglican communion had a movement of monastic revival. As always, please, if you have any...

Have you ever wondered, if Jesus is the New Messianic King, son of David, then who is the new Queen? Believe it or not, both the Bible and the early church have a lot to say on the matter. In this episode, the final part of my five part mini-series on an Anglican Mariology, we discuss this very topic. As always, please, if you have any questions, thoughts, or ideas for future episodes, leave them...

This episode is Part IV of a five part mini-series on an Anglican Mariology and today's episode will help to introduce us to the Doctrine of Mary’s Bodily Assumption. You may know that as Christians, we believe that after His resurrection, Jesus ascended into heaven, but did you know that ever since the earliest centuries of the Church, Christians have also believed that the body of the Blessed Vi...

This episode is Part III of a five-part mini-series on an Anglican Mariology. It is my hope that this episode will help to introduce us to the doctrine that states that Mary is the Mother of God, distinctly different from saying Mary is the Mother of Christ, and to deny this doctrine may just be heresy! As always, please, if you have any questions, thoughts, or ideas for future episodes, leave the...

This episode will introduce us to the Doctrine of the Immaculate Conception and demonstrate how this view is not just Roman Catholic, but Reformed Catholic, also! 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 yo...

Are you uncomfortable saying that the Virgin Mary remained a virgin her whole life? That she was conceived without sin? That she is the Mother not only of Christ, but of God? That she was assumed bodily into heaven where she is now Queen? This episode begins a new five part mini-series on an Anglican Mariology and today’s episode asks the question, “Was Mary a Perpetual Virgin?" As always, please,...

What does baptism actually do? Does it merely symbolize something that has already happened internally? Is it simply a public profession of faith? Is it a covenant marker? Does God actually do something in baptism? In this week’s episode, I attempt to answer this question by presenting an Anglican theology on baptism. As always, please, if you have any questions, thoughts, or ideas for future epis...

Have you ever wondered, “who gets to decide what Christianity is?” Maybe you are looking around at all these Bible-believing Christians who can’t agree on anything and questioning what might be missing? If that is you, then this episode is for you. In it, I will discuss these exact issues and offer an alternative called “The Anglican Way.” As always, please, if you have any questions, thoughts, or...

In this episode of "Theology on Ice: A Reformed Catholic Podcast," I briefly discuss some of my thoughts on, as well as the biblical basis for, the Church's practice of excommunication. As always, please feel free to leave any questions, thoughts, or ideas for future episodes in the comments below. Also, consider subscribing so that you can receive updates whenever a new episode is released. God b...

Welcome back to "Theology on Ice: A Reformed Catholic Podcast." In this episode, we discuss the liturgical season of Lent and how best to prepare for and observe it. Please, as always, feel free to leave any questions or thoughts, as well as topic ideas for future episodes, in the comments below! God bless!

In this episode of "Theology on Ice: A Reformed Catholic Podcast," I seek to provide a faithful exposition of Article XXII (22) of the Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion. This Article addresses a wide range of Roman Catholic theology, so I want to help us Reformed Catholics understand how we should view these doctrines in light of the English Reformation. Please, as always, feel free to share and th...

In this episode, I seek to dive into the Scriptures regarding the theological concept that Christ ordained St Peter the Apostle to be the first Pope of His Universal Church. I then assess this development in Church History and the dogmatic Roman Catholic statements about the Papacy as they exist today. Finally, I conclude by looking at how all this relates to a Reformed Catholic Tradition and what...