Review 2024

Our Top 10 Articles of 2024

Posted on December 28, 2024
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Which article was most popular on Anglican Compass this year? Can you guess? Or if an individual article does not come to mind, what category do you think it came from? Two hints. First, we excluded the Daily Office Booklet, even though it would be the most popular because it’s not really an article. Second,…

Full Circle with Anglican Compass: The Editor’s Story

Posted on June 14, 2023
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Becoming the editor of Anglican Compass is a full-circle experience. Itโ€™s possible that I wouldnโ€™t be an Anglican without Anglican Compass, much less have been ordained a priest in this tradition. I spent my first 34 years in Southern Baptist churches, after all. Only God could have orchestrated the journey by which he led me…

The Parish at Sea: A Day in the Life of a Navy Chaplain

Posted on March 6, 2023
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As with any other day, I awake before sunrise and take my breakfast amongst my fellows. Today I sat across from the doctor, enjoying a pleasant conversation with him before departing to the chapel for Matins. After vesting and preparing the lectern Bible for the morningโ€™s readings, Jake enters the chapel. Although not the parish…

A Call to College Ministry

Posted on March 2, 2023
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We are the Hunters, and this fall our family will start an Anglican college ministry at the University of Louisiana in Lafayette (pictured above). We are calling the ministry Campus Communion, because we serve the campus, proclaiming union with God and each other through the gospel of Jesus Christ. But Iโ€™m getting ahead of myself….

A Liberty Student Finds Anglicanism

Posted on February 27, 2023
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I reached a spiritual breaking point when I started college at Liberty University. Everyone seemed to be talking directly to Yahweh except for me, yet I couldnโ€™t shake this feeling that something was off and that we were chasing not Christ, but a feeling, and that I was doing the same. Son of a Baptist…

Clarity for a New Anglican

Posted on February 15, 2023
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When I was first getting my feet under me as a new Anglican, exploring what ordination could look like, it was tough to get my bearings. Sometimes it could feel as if the deeper I got into Anglicanism, the more confusing it was! Clarity & Charity My immediate context practiced a particular form of churchmanship…