The following is an excerpt from the Anglican Church in North America’s catechism, To Be a Christian: An Anglican Catechism (Crossway, 2020), pp. 81–87.
You can download a PDF of the entire catechism here.
A rule of prayer is a regular discipline by which […]
UPDATE: Read our review of this book.
Winfield Bevins has been a part of the team here at Anglican Pastor for a while now. (Click here to read his posts.) We’re excited to announce the publication of his latest book, Ever Ancient, Ever New: The Allure of Liturgy for a New Generation on March 5, 2019.
As somewhat of […]
Anglicans love liturgy. This has always been true, but in the past couple of decades, I’ve seen more and more young clergy who are especially enamored with the formational impact of rightly ordered worship.
I would imagine this phenomenon is due mostly to a generation of young priests drawn to the Anglican way from a low church […]
When you drive out to St. John’s Island from Charleston, South Carolina, you move through filtered sunlight through overhanding oak branches draped with Spanish moss. The low country is filled with tall grasses and salt marshes. And when you pull up to Camp St. Christopher, at the very point of the barrier island, you are greeted by the figures of […]
On April 10, LeaderWorks will facilitate a webinar from the meeting of the ACNA’s Liturgy Taskforce as they work on common texts for liturgical use for our province. We hope to provide an opportunity to hear from the faithful men and women who have put in years of hard work on this prayer book. In October 2017, we were able […]
Easter isn’t a finish line—it’s our kickoff to a season of celebration. Still, pastors can be forgiven for admitting that after Holy Week, they are a little exhausted. Whether your church hosts vigils, daily services, or some other Easter extravaganza, there is a lot to juggle.
Especially tricky is managing the liturgies. Palms and Passion, Maundy Thursday and Good Friday; Holy […]
In Giving Up, I relate a moment from a particularly memorable Ash Wednesday. Other memories of this solemn service have been more somber, but none more soberly illustrates our ‘selfie culture’ or the need we have for this Lenten season that can draw us out of ourselves—if only we will let it.
Lent begins with a necessary reminder: you are dust and to dust you shall return.
In Ash Wednesday, we speak these difficult words so that we might resist the influential fictions that our daily lives impress upon us. The fiction that we are in control. That we can fix ourselves. That we were designed first and foremost to love and care for […]
In the interests of making the Daily Office (Morning and Evening Prayer) more accessible, I’ve been putting together Daily Office Booklets for a while now. Ideally, with just a Bible and a booklet, you should be able to work your way through both Morning and Evening Prayer on your own […]
At LeaderWorks, we are all about helping church leaders do their work. To that end, we posted a new idea for helping your church give in the final month of the year: make a Christmas Wish List for your church!
Still, you deserve more than a lump of coal, so take a break and write your Christmas wish list. […]
It’s been a little while since we highlighted what’s happening over at LeaderWorks. Here’s a round-up of the latest news and resources:
We’ve made two wrong turns so far, and that’s my fault. I keep looking up from the map on my phone at the mountains surrounding us here in northern Washington state. We are looking for a retreat center in Sumas, a town that seems to be mostly small farms patched in among the forested hills.
I am here with David Roseberry […]
The mission of LeaderWorks is to help church leaders do their work. In that effort, James K.A. Smith and Tim Keller have blessed us richly with their recent conversation in Comment Magazine.
Church leaders who have just begun their ministries, whether planting a church […]
I don’t know about you, but I’m quite possibly addicted to podcasts.
Right now, NPR’s UpFirst, The Tim Ferriss Show, and The Art of Manliness are some of my favorites. However, it’s been a bit of struggle for me to find great Anglican podcasts. Granted, perhaps that’s due to my own ignorance, but when you search for “Anglican” in most podcast […]
“For all those who departed this life in the certain hope of the resurrection, in thanksgiving let us pray to the Lord.”
In Anglican worship, we don’t pray to the dead. But, we do pray for the dead and we pray with the dead.
Many people have asked me why we do this. Most of the time they are asking because they were raised in […]
The Rev. Canon David Roseberry is Executive Director of LeaderWorks
I posted a video last week of Fr. Shawn McCain of RezAustin. This is part of an ongoing series at LeaderWorks to showcase some of the talent and ministry leaders in our Anglican Church in North American. (Shawn is with […]
A week or so ago I had the chance to sit with one of the church planters in our diocese (C4SO) from the Austin area. Shawn is one of a growing number of young leaders that have sensed a strong call to ministry in the Anglican Church in North America. However, […]
This post is a part of Rookie Anglican, a blog dedicated to Making Anglicanism Accessible.
Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets;
I have not come to abolish but to fulfill them.
For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away,
Not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law
Until all is accomplished. — Matthew 5:17-18 (ESV)
Several evangelical friends […]
You miserable, wretched sinners!
You will hear this during Lent. Some will be offended, as these words seem rude and unworthy of creatures created in God’s image. To retain these words would be to wrongly imply that human beings are supposed to grovel before God and debase themselves.
Others will be pleased, as these traditional words seem to capture the full spirit […]
As Anglicans, we use various forms of ancient worship called “liturgical.” This is the major thing that distinguishes us from “low” churches that do not have a traditional liturgy.
Liturgy comes from a Greek word which means “the work of the people.” In this ancient custom of worship, we become as a group of Christians what […]
The best way to describe my journey to Anglicanism is to say that I stumbled into it. But before I get to the Anglican part, I have to talk about my journey to becoming a Christian.
I grew up in an Indian Hindu family, and my first experience attending church was in high school. A friend invited me to […]
This post is a part of Rookie Anglican, a blog dedicated to Making Anglicanism Accessible.
What’s the most confusing part of an Anglican worship service?
Surely the “liturgical dance moves” are near the top of the list! You know, when it seems like everyone else in the […]
Here are a few lines from some of the wisest writers and thinkers… Drink deep and believe!
–David Roseberry from LeaderWorks
Hast thou not heard, that my Lord Jesus di’d?
Then let me tell thee a strange storie.
The God of power, as he did ride
In his majestic […]
