An Anglican Teaching Ministry
Read, mark, learn, and
inwardly digest the Scriptures.
Four priests and a biblical scholar walking through the Bible in the universal Tradition of Christ’s Church: canonical, creedal, and liturgical. Also, five friends who like each other, talking about the things they love, and sometimes making terrible dad jokes.
Featured Episode
Now at the table
Season 2 · Episode 14 · Ordinary Time
Reading the Bible as One Book
Before we open to any single chapter, we ask what kind of book we are holding. The four of us make the case that Scripture is one book with one Author and one subject, the Lord Jesus Christ, and what that conviction does to the way you read a Tuesday-morning psalm.
Catechesis
4 Catechesis Tracks
Scripture, doctrine, liturgy, and history — worked through at your own pace, alone or with a parish small group.
Scripture
Reading Scripture the Anglican Way
Canon, typology, the Old Testament, and the lectionary as a school of reading.
6 lessons · About 3 hours
Doctrine
The Faith We Confess
The Apostles' and Nicene Creeds, article by article: Trinity, Incarnation, Church, and the last things.
2 lessons · About 2.5 hours
Liturgy
The Shape of Worship
The Prayer Book, the Daily Office, the Eucharist, the sacraments, and the church year.
2 lessons · About 3 hours
History
How We Got Here
The apostolic era, the councils, the English Reformation, the Caroline divines, and global Anglicanism.
2 lessons · About 3 hours
From the Desk
Latest writing
Scripture
Christ in the Whole of Scripture
On the road to Emmaus the risen Lord teaches the oldest Christian way of reading the Bible, and it begins in Moses.
Fr. Paul Wheatley9 min read
Doctrine
Why We Confess a Creed We Did Not Write
Standing to say the Nicene Creed is an act of trust, we let the Church across time tell us what the Bible means.
Fr. David Bumsted7 min read
Liturgy
Cranmer's Long Game: The Genius of the Daily Office
The Reformer's quiet masterpiece was not a doctrine but a habit: praying the whole Bible, morning and evening, until it prays you.
Fr. Thom Crowe8 min read
The Podcast
Recent episodes
Season 2 · Episode 14
Reading the Bible as One Book
Before we open to any single chapter, we ask what kind of book we are holding. The four of us make the case that Scripture is one book with one Author and one subject, the Lord Jesus Christ, and what that conviction does to the way you read a Tuesday-morning psalm.
Ordinary Time52 min
Season 2 · Episode 11
Why the Old Testament Is Not Optional
Marcion is not dead; he just teaches an adult Sunday-school class now. Matthew walks us through why the Church has always confessed the God of Israel as the God and Father of our Lord Jesus, and why the Hebrew Scriptures are Christian Scripture.
Ordinary Time58 min
Season 2 · Episode 8
The Daily Office: Praying the Bible Back to God
Morning and Evening Prayer are how ordinary Anglicans have read the whole of Scripture for five centuries. We open the Prayer Book together and walk through why the Office is built the way it is, and what it does to a life prayed inside it.
Easter49 min
The Hosts
Five at the table
Fr. David Bumsted
Priest & Host
The Very Rev. David Bumsted is rector of St. John's Episcopal Church in Tulsa, a Florida native and former Look Mexico bassist who still loves his city's creative and brewing scene. He understands the parish in the old way: a place and a people to be a priest to.
Fr. Paul Wheatley
Priest, New Testament Scholar & Host
Fr. Paul Wheatley teaches New Testament at Nashotah House and is finishing a Notre Dame doctorate on baptism as a governing metaphor in Mark. He trains readers to 'stare' at the Scriptures with patient attention, and off the page he home-brews, chases good coffee, and hikes.
Fr. Thom Crowe
Priest & Host
Fr. Thom Crowe was ordained a deacon in the Orthodox Church before entering the Anglican tradition, and keeps one eye on the Church Fathers and the other on the parish newcomer. He serves as a campus missioner to Oral Roberts University and the University of Tulsa, works in tech marketing, and writes at angloorthodox.com on the wide catholic tradition Anglicans have inherited.
Fr. Matt Ainsley
Priest & Host
Fr. Matt Ainsley serves at the Church of the Ascension, where his preaching and pastoral care are shaped by a conviction that the liturgy and the lectionary, not the preacher's own preferences, should set the agenda for a congregation's spiritual diet.
Matthew Delaney
Biblical Scholar & Host
Matthew Delaney is the lay member of the table, trained in biblical languages and ancient Near Eastern history. He keeps the other hosts honest on the text itself, and is usually the one who says 'well, actually, in the Hebrew...' before anyone else can stop him.