Anglican Unscripted 877 - Will the real Mary please stand up? 

Thankyou for speaking up for our minister Rev Brett Murphy He is a man of God and his persecution is dreadful

Thanks for continuing to cover the debacle unfolding in the FCE brothers.

Hi bros! Greetings from Poland. Yes, I'm Roman Catholic and love Anglican Unscripted. Mary can never be on equal par or higher than Jesus our Lord. We believe that she intercedes for us at our Saviour Jesus Christ. We seek her prayers and protection on our journery to heaven. Pope Francis should know she is our Mother NOT Sister. I love you both and rarely miss your episodes. I love Brett Murphy and support him and his family through this difficult time. I often tuned in the the services in Morcambe. See you again next week.

I’ve been a Baptist and a conservative Presbyterian, the more I see of denominations that have Bishops (Methodists, Episcopal, Anglican) and what happens when you get bad ones and apparently can’t get rid of them the more I question why you would want to be in that kind of denomination. Not saying the others don’t have problems but you can usually get rid of them.

He didn't call the transgender archdeacon a witch, his exact words were that he call him "a bloke".

Always enjoy your conversation. Greetings from Nova Scotia .. a child of the cloth!

80 per cent of the money that's voted for aid to Ukraine is spent in the United States on new equipment for the US military. Old equipment, that the US would have to decommission anyway, is sent to Ukraine.

Thank you for your kind presentation of Mary and my Catholic Church. You are Anglican and are presenting your Reformation theology. Catholics hold that salvation is from Christ alone. Mary, as Mother of God and Queen, subordinate to Jesus, holds the highest place of vernation, not adoration. She, as our Mother, intercedes for us at the throne of our Saviour and Lord Jesus. We seek her prayers and protection on our journery to heaven. May she lead us closer to Jesus now and at the hour of our death. Amen

Precisely… Fenwick has no accountability! Who’s watching the ‘watchman’? There is no Archbishop. This guy seems to be a law unto himself. Earlier we heard that he is no ‘bishop’ but a Presbyter only and on level with his fellow presbyters.

I can no longer attend the apostate C of E and looking at alternatives in the uk I now feel I must sadly no longer be an Anglican

"All Creatures Great and Small was rural Yorkshire". The Church building in question with the heating issue is St.John The Baptist, Tideswell, Derbyshire. It is a grand gothic cathedra-esque building, indeed carrying the well deserved nick-name "The Cathedral of The Peak". I used to be in the same Deanery as that church when I was Team Rector in Buxton. It is in a very high, cold, wet place and it needs a good heating system. Beyond that I could not possibly comment because of legal restrictions.

Time for am investigative journalist to have a look at the Free Church of England.

Am I not correct in stating that the doctrines of the immaculate conception and of the assumption of Mary cannot past muster under Article VI of the Articles of Religion? They are not defined in Holy Scripture? They have not been "believed everywhere, always, and by all," applying the 434 AD Vincentian Canon? In that some High Church or Anglo-Catholic clergy allow or tolerate them, they cannot be required to be believed? That Thomas Aquinas did not believe the immaculate conception? That a pope declared the immaculate conception a dogma for Roman Catholics as recently as 1854? That a pope declared the assumption of Mary a dogma for Roman Catholics as recently as 1950?🤔

My son (2 busses and a train ) went down to Emanuel on Sunday and got there in time to see the kerfuffle. A most unsavoury business apparently, though thankfully he didn't smack the bloke (the bishop) but he did tell me that many de-camped to Bretts house to meet up there for at least some fellowship. So it even looks like Fenwick may even be a failure at his new profession of Church wrecker. What kind of witness and example to young Christians is this man? One of these days In going to take my 6 foot 5 250lbs to go see him if he ever pulls the heavy on my lad.

At 44:57 I'm in full agreement with you. I was raised Methodist, then began attending Episcopal services, before ultimately becoming Catholic. I, like many practicing Catholics, have reconciled my love for the Catholic faith to my underlying fundamentalism, rejecting anything contrary to scripture.

As a Catholic I can tell you that nobody in his right mind would have a problem calling Mary our sister in the faith, because she is that. I think the upset may be that she is often called Mother Mary; it is her motherhood of the Lord that is emphasized, and since Jesus is our brother she is also our mother in that way as well as at the cross, there being ZERO siblings of Jesus to take care of Mary, she was, quite sensibly given to John, and since she was called by Christ from the cross: Woman, in reference to Eve, and John called the disciple, in reference to disciples generally, it is taken that she is now mother of all the disciples. There are all kinds of ways to think and all kinds of titles used for her, sister is just triggering to some because Francis is kind of a troll. As for the co-redemptrix thing, that's a theological construct espoused by some in which Mary's suffering at the time she was there at the cross with Jesus was united to His passion and cross, in full surrender of all to the will of the Father. My understanding of it is that it is not somehow that she saved anything, but that she offered herself with Christ. Inasmuch as Christ this very day allows and in fact expects all Christians to unite their own sufferings to His One and only redemption of us on the cross. This is inherent in "picking up your cross every day" as Jesus said. Since the head, Jesus is crucified, so the body, the church. Inasmuch as we unite our suffering to His, we do indeed fill up as St. Paul says, that which was lacking in His offering. This is because ONLY WE as individuals can offer our crosses to the Lord, that is what Paul refers to, since in fact nothing is lacking in His perfect sacrifice on His part. In that sense, her suffering was redemptive as is ours. He allows us to tack it on His work. He calls us each to be another Christ.

US military do not use AK 47’s

***It is truly meet to bless you, O Theotokos, ever-blessed and most pure, and the Mother of our God. More honorable than the Cherubim, and more glorious beyond compare than the Seraphim, without defilement you gave birth to God the Word. True Theotokos we magnify you!*** ☦☦☦☦☦☦☦

Gaslighting isn't just lying - it's bullying through emotional blackmail, control etc. thereby causing fear and anxiety. 😊 And also, the U.S. is just as bad with group think. ❤

The guard is most certainly not carrying an AK-47. He is carrying an M4. American military do not issue Soviet made weapons. Especially not in garrison.

I'm an Anglican and my belief has always been that Mary was a virgin until she gave birth to Jesus.

The only concert that should occur in a Church Building is a concert that features Anglican Chant and/or Gregorian Chanting of the Psalter.

I doubt the Navy issues AK-47s..

I wondered what the problem was with Boeing. What you said about DEI makes sense.

Our Francis is long since entered into Apostacy. Not to be taking seriously but dangerous to the sheep.

The virgin birth and immaculate conception are two different things. The Immaculate Conception is the belief that the Mary was conceived and born without the stain of original sin, it has nothing to do with whether she ever had sex. She boar her son, God the Son, so is obviously the God Bearer. As such, blessed among women and graced with a unique role in bringing about our salvation by contributing her flesh/DNA to Jesus and carrying God in her body. Staggering thought! As for Francis using the term sister, Jesus is called our brother is He not? We are adopted heirs of God the Father. Yet Jesus is also God and Lord. Mary, is an adopted child of God saved through Christ, therefore our sister, yet also the mother of our Lord and appointed by Him (says the Church of Rome) to be our mother too. She is both. This shouldn't be causing any sort of storm - except that anything Francis says is parsed for the least charitable interpretation.

Nothing can start a fight amongst Christians faster than a debate about Mary 😢. Jesus not Mary is Lord.

Pope Paul VI called her our SISTER in an Apostolic Constitution in 1973, saying: “Mary in fact is one of our race, a true daughter of Eve; though free of that mother’s sin. And truly our sister, who as a poor and humble woman fully shared our lot.” Traditionalists lost the plot DECADES ago, Francis has said NOTHING NEW here. Pope Francis acknowledges that Mary is our Mother, and he created a feast day commemorating her as Mary, Mother of the Church in 2018. This isn’t an either/or thing, she is mother and she is sister. These traditionalists are uncharitable in their interpretation of the Holy Father’s every sentence. Don’t spend too much time listening to them, guys!

Anglicans are not "sola scriptura". The ACNA believes in Scripture and the first 5 centuries of the ecumenical councils(tradition). The Assumption of Mary was believed as early as the 5th century and the earliest teahings. Revelation 12 depicts Mary as reigning in heaven as fully glorified which is our destiny as believers. Read the Catechism of the Catholic Church to learn the truth of what she believes. It clearly states that we are saved only through the saving of Jesus Christ on the Cross. FYI, both Luther and Calvin believed in the perpetual virginity of Mary.

GEORGE is absolutely right! Shame on both Canterbury & my former old church, ASLP: God’s church is a house of prayer and worship, not for entertainment. And shame on Charlie Skrine, too, if he didn’t scream blue murder.

Billy Idol is 68 and having the time of his life. Raised in a religious Anglican home, doesn't like any religion (has called Christ a fellow punk rocker). But God loves him a lot, he avoided dead more times a than an Ukrainian veteran soldier in Donbas. And he used often to play with the religious imaginary. But if Idol is problematic in any sense being old punker who's having fun.

PS Guys, Brett went to Ridley College, the evangelical college in Melbourne. Perhaps, the small size of the Free Church of England says something about why he was sacked. I pray he sees Bishop Andy Lines from Gafcon as they are always church planting, although he does seem to be a bit high church, so who knows!

And the gates of hell shall not prevail, AMEN

God bless you, thank you

Helpful commentary.

The head of the UN said that "we are living through climate collapse in real time". The sad thing is that many people think he was saying something sensible when in fact his statement is meaningless nonsense.

80s Night should'a been Petra, the Second Chapter of Acts, Keith Green, Don Francisco's "He's Alive," maybe Steve Taylor. . .

Englands greatest cathedral, Durham has silent discos, yoga, harry potter events and pop concerts.

Britain is in tatters, as Ursula van de Leyen would say 😂

Vatican II moves Mary from soteriology to ecclesiology. Francis is just supporting that.

Thank you for telling the truth. Very sad.

1. George at 40:24-36: "Traditionally Catholics have taken that from the passage in the Gospel where Jesus on the cross and says to the beloved disciple John 'behold MY mother'. Response: John 19:26-27 (KJV): When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, "Woman, behold thy son!" Then He said to the disciple, “Behold YOUR mother!” And from that hour that disciple took her to his own home. 2. George at 41:03-23: "Francis, in summing up, said that we need to follow Mary, our sister in the faith, leading the way, not our mother in the faith, not the mother of us all, but our sister in the faith which is a mainstream Anglican understanding." Response: A. Matthew 12:50 (KJV): "For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my BROTHER, and SISTER, and MOTHER." B. Luke 11:27-28 (KJV): And it came to pass, as he spake these things, a certain woman of the company lifted up her voice, and said unto him, "Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked." But he said, "Yea rather, BLESSED ARE THEY THAT HEAR THE WORD OF GOD, AND KEEP IT." C. Luke 1:39-48: And Mary arose in those days, and went into the hill country with haste, into a city of Juda; And entered into the house of Zacharias, and saluted Elisabeth. And it came to pass, that, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost: And she spake out with a loud voice, and said, "Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb. And whence is this to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me? For, lo, as soon as the voice of thy salutation sounded in mine ears, the babe leaped in my womb for joy. AND BLESSED IS SHE THAT BELIEVED: FOR THERE SHALL BE A PERFORMANCE OF THOSE THINGS WHICH WERE TOLD HER FROM THE LORD." And Mary said, "My soul doth magnify the Lord, And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour. For he hath regarded the low estate of his handmaiden: FOR BEHOLD, FROM HENCEFORTH ALL GENERATIONS SHALL CALL ME BLESSED." 3. And if the King James Bible was good enough for St. John, St Matthew and St. Luke ...

The reason why I as an Anglican I believe in bishops is because that exactly the form of church govt you had for the first 1600 years. Even during Arian controversy where the majority of bishops were arians nobody at the time including athanius where dear call for the end of bishops. Your question is grounded on American pragmatism and not on sound biblical and historical ecclesiology.

Thanks Kevin and George good subjects discussed Im learning great stuff, stay blessed ✝️🕎✡️🙏❤

The immaculate conception and assumption of Mary bodily into heaven can be proven even by RC Church historians to be later accretions not believed or universally accepted by the earliest Church Fathers and Doctors nor in the earliest Church Councils.

Obviously she is not adored by Catholics. I honour her as the earthly mother of Jesus. He would have learned from her the stories of his Jewish heritage as all Jewish mothers traditionally performed this task. In John’s gospel Jesus worked his first ‘sign’ or miracle at her remark, “They have no wine”. Jesus acted upon her statement which wasn’t a request even though ‘ His hour had not come’. She was so confident He would act on her observation that Mary told the servants to do exactly what Jesus said. Of course I ask God directly in the name of Jesus for needs - I also ask Mary on occasion to join her prayer with mine. I see nothing wrong with that and I shall continue as it bears fruit!

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Its okay fellas. I will ask Holy Mother Mary Our Lady of Good Help to pray to her Son for you. Maranatha

Francis by starting messes in the Church has himself become a mess.

Yes ! I am mad at you but I still like.

UNITED KINGDOM not England!!!!

BRITISH AND BRITAIN!!! IT OUTLIVES ENGLAND AND ENGLISH!! GET YOUR FACTS RIGHT.

Nice music!!! Pet Shop Boys!!!

Sounds like A NICOLAITAN Bishop

The Olena Zelenska Bugatti story is Russian propaganda and it doesn’t take much effort to find that out.

Is their a female Imam of a Mosque any where?

Your comments about the many morally questionable aspects of Ukraine's government and other authorities are a welcome moderator to the simplistic good-guys (Ukraine) versus bad-guys (Russia) perspective taken by most Western news outlets and analysis. Even a Ukrainian nurse whom I met around a year ago complained about that perspective, saying that the subject is far more complicated than is generally reported in the West. And that is NOT to imply that Russia's invasion is anything other than barbarous and reprehensible. However, the story about Mrs Zelensky's Bugatti has been widely discredited. Reuters, fullfact, and factcheck, are just three of many organisations that report the story as originating in a Russian-run disinformation website. Moreover, and as the last of these three organisations recounts in some detail, the Paris-based car dealership ostensibly involved has vehemently asserted the falsity of the story, with back-up documentation and critiques of the paperwork that purports to prove the purchase. The Russians have always been masters of disinformation. (I speak as a Russophile, at least as far as literature, music and architecture are concerned.) It took me about five minutes to check-out the veracity of this Bugatti story; and it quickly became obvious that it is, at the very least, questionable -- the latest in a long line of slurs (mostly discredited) implying personal enrichment by the Zelenskys. So it would be better to report the story as a claim rather than a fact. If we present such misinformation as fact, we play into the Russians' hands and join the long line of those whom the Russians and others call "useful idiots." That said, it is sadly true that in Ukraine corruption is endemic and profoundly embedded. The Ukrainian nurse I spoke to admitted as much.

Miriam (Mary) is actually crucial to God's plan of salvation. Because Yeshua (Jesus) birth is not through a human paternal line. The vital lineage comes through Miriam...she combines the lines of Aaron the High Priest through Zadok from her Mother Anna Joseph the suffering Messiah through Omri King of Ephraim, and King David through her father Joachim. So Miriam is actually a princess of Israel from royal and priestly lineage. Miriam was selected by God very carefully to bring all these lines together into his son Yeshua. So protestants and catholics alike should venerate God's choice in Miriam.

BRITISH!!!!!

There's a good book "Mary in the New Testament" by Joseph Fitzmeyer and Raymond E. Browne (both world-ranking Catholic bible scholars) and other authors.

You Lads are fair with everything you say. my view REC should step in and take over FCE. Yes I know they have no control lol

1. Since there has been a stream of comments about Mary, the mother of Jesus, in response to this Anglican Unscripted video #877 - Will the real Mary please stand up?, I would like to solicit any information regarding Simeon's prophecy when Joseph and Mary presented Jesus in the temple according to the Gospel of Luke 2:34-35 (KJV): And Simeon blessed them, and said unto Mary his mother, "Behold, this child is set for the fall and rising again of many in Israel; and for a sign which shall be spoken against; (Yea, a sword shall pierce through thy own soul also,) that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed." 2. What is this sword Simeon is speaking of that will pierce the soul of Mary? 3. And as always, if the King James Bible was good enough for St. Luke ...

I thought a war would be a state of emergency. So how do you afford a luxury vehicle, to drive around Russian bomb craters. Is Mary, not in every Christmas Nativity scene , in hymns, such as Away in a Manger etc. Was she not at the foot of the cross. What about Madonna's greatest hits album 'The Immaculate Collection'. Uurgh! Phew!

On the subject of Mary I'd like to hear Kevin explain why he thinks Fatima was a fake. This is something he said on another video.

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Rev calvin robinson is leaving the UK

Yes, Jesus wouldn’t honor His Mother as much as He did Elijah and Enoch. No body or shrine exists for Mary ever to have suggest the Church being aware she was buried. Surely there is no evidence St John’s Mother isn’t bodily in Heaven Rev 11:19 - Rev 12:14-17. John 2:4 - John 19:27 - Rev 12:1 Stong’s 1135 I wonder when John wrote these books? Maranatha

They have made Mary (Miryam real name) an IDOL.

Misandry. I wonder how many people are even aware this word exists?

Will Labour have a next election?

Thank you, gentlemen, for another excellent episode! Upsetting the RC's (as evidenced here by certain comments) has always been an unfortunate, yet unsurprising reaction to the divinely inspired Anglican Church!

As a Catholic listener I think it is required to believe that Mary was assumed into heaven but there is an unresolved question as to whether she was dead or not when she was assumed. You can have your own opinion on that if you want. :) You know, there is the commandment about honoring your father and mother. I would ask you in what ways Jesus honored his mother.

Regarding the uncripted report of David sping's arrest. It would have been a more well-rounded report of it had included IMHO two salient facts. 1) Spring pled guilty 2) He also apoligised for his actions. "Defending, Piers Kiss-Wilson said his client David Spring is ashamed of his actions. 'The defendant asked me to put forward his apologies to the court and he says he is embarrassed by his behaviour and he is ashamed by it," he said."He wants to apologise to his family and friends and his wife who don't deserve this." IMHO Spring yelled the equivelent of "fire" in a crowded theatre. We can question the sentencing, but the arrest would seem to have some justification.

I read Evangelical or low church Anglicans and converts from Protestant denominations equating the Article VI with sola scriptura. Nothing in world prevents them for making the comparison. It seems Anglicans as a whole have kept Article VI within the bounds of "that which has been believed everywhere, always, and by all," when it comes to interpretation. The troubles of the Episcopal Church, the Church of England, and Anglican Church of Canada are connected to their rejection of traditional biblical moral, illustrative of what happens to those who exceed those bounds.

Kevin, AK KUH KEEK

The same carbon footprint effect regarding church heating could be achieved by about 8 families giving up keeping large dogs as pets. We have an epidemic of multiple dog ownership in the UK - if church officers are so concerned for "carbon footprint" why not talk about dogs? An average-sized dog generates 770 kg of CO2e, and an even bigger dog can emit upwards of 2,500 kilograms of CO2e, which is twice as much as the emissions deriving from an average family car per year. A large church carbon footprint is about 19600 kg of CO2. Do the math(s). Why are church eco officers and all the other " green agenda " people not talking about the dog issue when it comes to CO2 issues - if you really do believe in that stuff Heck, you could make a difference by swapping your large dog for a small dog. It really is stupidity.

I thought Billy Idol became a US citizen in 2018?

No it will not be an AK47. I thought you Republicans knew about guns? 😂😂😂

Revelation called the Woman of Rev12 the Ark of the Covenant

I have recently advised my "followers" saying that parents should not allow their children to attend a Taylor Swift event. RayJC UK

Of course Mary is our sister; because she is a a member of the human family. She is also our mother because of her unique cooperation in our redemption. The Undivided Church proclaimed Mary as Theotokos - Mother of God - at the Council of Ephesus in the 5th century. So...Francis did not err in referring to her as our sister. He would surely acknowledge her as Mother of God also. This talk is much to do about nothing.

Things are falling into place.

That Jesus was born of Mary does not make Mary co-equal to the Second Person of the Trinity.

11:24 ""We believe in accountability," Kevin declares, just ten minutes after labeling everyone who disagrees with him as a troll.

Poor George mentions St Athanasius and states that P.F. is sort of preaching as he did. OK - a prayer of that Saint; 'Mother of God and our Queen, come to our aid'. He said the Holy Virgin was 'greater than any other greatness' and greater than the Cherubim, Archangels and Angels etc etc. Alas! George and the Fathers of the Church don't seem to come together that much!

When the woman in the crowd shouted 'blessed is the womb that bore thee and the breast from which you suckled...' the Lord replies 'yes' (i.e He agreed) which doesn't always come out in the English translation. He then said 'more blessed are they who hear the word of God and keep it', He was here pointing to His Holy Mother, the Blessed Virgin was chosen BECAUSE she 'heard the word of God and kept it'. Don't think George does theology.

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George says, re; the Marian dogmas, that he uses (among other things) 'human reason'. I think George listens to Richard Dawkins way too much.

Kevin please try to have SOME respect when talking of the Panagia, don't just say 'Mary' for goodness sake. Say 'Mother of God' or 'All Holy' or 'Our Lady' or 'Blessed Virgin' or 'Holy Mary' or some such. On the subject, Kevin stated she is the 'Mother of Jesus', (I think he means the LORD Jesus CHRIST, but with Kevin, who knows?) - so she is but - OVER AND ABOVE anything she is MOTHER OF GOD, why did Kevin never use that title? Anyone who denies that she is the Theotokos is NOT a Christian as they therefore deny Christ. Insisting on 'Mother of Jesus' to the exclusion of 'Mother of God' is heresy, as taught since the Council of Ephesus.

55:10 Kevin: "The climate has changed daily, hourly". Wikipedia:"Climate is the long-term weather pattern in a region, typically averaged over 30 years" How can you say climate change is a fraud when you don't even know what the word means? Go on, call me a troll why don't you. It's easier than learning what words actually mean.

Agrippina minor. mary the elder ; Agrippina maior

Poor muddled George says that Mary All Holy is not mentioned by St Paul, well the Theotokos is mentioned plenty in St Luke's Gospel, who was St Luke? A disciple of St Paul - the Gospel would have been written with St Paul's blessing and probably guidance.

as to those women whose disobedience you fear, then admonish them and sleep apart from them, and beat them Ayah an-Nisa` (Women) 4:34

You are unfair to Bishop Lane, and perhaps abusive in calling her ‘dumb’. She is required to obtain safeguarding clearance before making any appointment, and to act with regard to that advice. In relation to the fabric of churches she has no formal role. She would not be able to sit on the diocesan fabric committee, which offers advice to parishes. I agree that the UK net zero legislation is deeply foolish, but the CofE is required to act in accordance with it. CofE bishops do not occupy the CEO role which TEC follows.

G&K's obsession with Scripture is un-Biblical!! St Paul (in the Bible) says that the CHURCH is the 'pillar and ground of the truth' - he also talks of the importance of Tradition. For TWO THOUSAND YEARS the Church has taught that the Most Pure Mother of God was 1/ Ever Virgin and 2/ was Assumed Body & Soul into Heaven (note that there are NO relics of the All Holy Virgin). Does George not read books? Even the heretics Martin Luther and John Calvin believed that the Mother of God was 'ever virgin'.

Co-Redemptrix means that the act of redemption wrought by Christ was done, and by law had to be done, in the presence of Mary. Deuteronomy 12 requires offerings to be made only in the place the LORD chooses as a home for His Name. Consider that the Divine Name is embedded in the names of each of the men who were responsible for her during her life. As to perpetual virginity, Mark chapter 6 mentions the brothers of Jesus. It also names Philip Herod and Herod Antipas as brothers, though Josephus tells us that they had different mothers.