Posts by Fr Jay Scott Newman

Dear Friends in Christ, In 2003 I drafted the Principles of Evangelical Catholicism to help shape our common life as a spiritual family, and I offer these principles to help us all become mature Christian disciples who are committed by the grace of conversion to a life of right belief, right worship, and right conduct.…

Dear Friends in Christ, “Be still and know that I am God.” Thus does the Lord instruct us in Psalm 46, verse 10. The stillness to which we are called in Holy Scripture is a letting go of actions and words that yields silence, both interior and exterior, and such silence is essential for every…

Dear Friends in Christ, Most of us keep multiple calendars on our phones (personal, professional, social, academic, etc), and we make plans for important events in our lives by locating them in one of our many calendars. Moreover, we think of the moments in our calendars as linear – they are past, present, or future…

Dear Friends in Christ, “I believe and profess all that the holy Catholic Church believes, teaches, and proclaims to be revealed by God.” These are powerful words. They are words of faith, and they testify to a heart and mind converted by the truth of the Gospel, which is the power of God unto salvation…

Dear Friends in Christ, Saint Helena, who was born around 248 and died around 330, was the mother of Constantine the Great, the first Christian Emperor of Rome, and the end of the persecutions that followed Constantine’s conversion made it possible for Christians to worship publicly and without fear throughout the Empire. This new freedom…