I’m River Devereux, the content provider of New Kingdom blog and its associated YouTube channel. Through these outlets I seek to build up the Church by explaining the traditionalist Anglican theology that is found in the Formularies (which are the 39 Articles, Book of Common Prayer and the Homilies)

My goal is to make the understanding the Formularies have of God, His Gospel, salvation, Church governance etc. understandable for the common man, not for the sake of intellectual inquiry, but so that our Christian lives can be supported by the wisdom I believe the Formularies possess. As a result, sometimes my content will oversimplify matters, but that is a concession I’m willing to make. In my view, there are already enough blogs and channels out there for the more academic side of things that I do not see the need for another one.

I am a husband, father, and young-adults pastor, currently finishing a Bachelor of Theology from Laidlaw College in Auckland, New Zealand, and am a member of the Church of Confessing Anglicans of Aotearoa New Zealand, which is part of the Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON).

The cover image at the top of the page is from David Iliff, and is taken from the apse in St Paul’s Cathedral, London; it depicts Jesus Christ as our King. A central theme to this blog is that the Church is God’s Kingdom, complete with its own Lord, its own practices, its own leaders and its own family.

“He has delivered us from the dominion of darkness and transferred us to the Kingdom of his beloved Son” – Colossians 1:13

Photo by DAVID ILIFF. License: CC BY-SA 3.0