N.T. Wright, God’s Homecoming: The Forgotten Promise of Future Renewal. HarperOne, 2026. 368 pp. Most people today imagine that the point of Christianity is ‘to go to heaven when you die.’ That’s what most believers believe. It’s what most unbelievers unbelieve. . . They are all wrong. So begins N. T. Wright in his new…

The major themes of Jesus’ teaching discourse to the disciples as they prepare to go on mission are the priority of proclaiming the gospel in Christian service and the inevitable resistance all messengers of the gospel will face. It is no wonder, then, that the messaging of the church in these early weeks of Pentecost…

We rejoice in our Anglican sacramental and liturgical heritage as an expression of the gospel, and we uphold the 1662 Book of Common Prayer as a true and authoritative standard of worship and prayer, to be translated and locally adapted for each culture.

We consistently pray to God the Father in Anglican worship. Every Collect of the Week addresses the Father or God; we pray the Lord’s Prayer weekly, sometimes daily, and the eucharistic prayers address the Father.

The beauty of Anglicanism is that whether or not we are called to Holy Orders or some other significant role, we are called to be a parishioner first.

Neither the ACNA nor the Book of Common Prayer in our hands today is a present-day import from England. Our Prayer Book, like our Church, has been a native, naturalized inhabitant since 1789.

Nicole M. Roccas. Time and Despondency: Regaining the Present in Faith and Life. Chesterton, IN: Ancient Faith Publishing, 2017. 194 pp. [I]n the light of Christ, who has lovingly filled all things…despondency is little more than a hardened scale, a scab we perpetually manufacture to numb the risk of encountering and being encountered by the…

Still at the beginning of the Pentecost season, as we come to the readings and collect for Proper 6A, we continue to receive in our worship revelation from God for day-to-day life, walking with Christ in the fellowship of the Spirit. The Gospel reading, Matthew 9:35-10:15, takes us into Matthew’s second major teaching discourse by…

The phrase “we gladly proclaim and submit” is the retrospective boast of a person—and a church—that has come to know and follow Jesus as the Holy One of God.

Christian History, Volume 1 and 2, serve as a superb introduction to Christian history. They are written honestly and accessibly without losing their depth.

This June, we are launching the Rookie Anglican Fund, a monthly giving program to help support our Rookie Anglican content and warmly welcome the next generation into the Anglican tradition. A new generation is discovering Anglicanism, and many are finding their first steps through Anglican Compass. For three straight years, we have seen double-digit growth,…

At Proper 5A, the church moves us, in our worship, to contemplate, from the Gospel of Matthew, the events and teachings of Jesus’ early ministry in Galilee after the Sermon on the Mount. (Much of the Sermon on the Mount itself is covered on Sundays during Epiphany Year A and then later in the numbered…

“Holy, Holy, Holy” is not only a classic hymn about the Trinity; it is also a song of adoration and personal worship of the triune God. Every verse begins with the thrice-holy acclamation of God upon his throne.

In the Prayer Book, the Psalter follows a 30-day cycle, assigning Psalms for both morning and evening each day.

Bevins combines insights from his personal journey as a ministry leader (he is an Anglican priest) and as a visual artist, with a call to action for all Christians—and particularly those in leadership positions—to join a growing artistic renaissance.

Trinity Sunday is the only principal feast in the Prayer Book assigned in recognition of a church doctrine. So central is the church’s confession of God as one in three persons, and so hard-won in its early history, that the appointment of the first Sunday after Pentecost as Trinity Sunday became a fixture in the…

Bodily gestures like bowing cultivate inward devotion. Reverence shown externally helps train reverence internally. Our liturgical rituals are modes of teaching ourselves—bodily habits shape the soul.

“Pentecost Sunday already!?” While this might well be our reaction to the arrival of this feast day on the church calendar every year, we can only imagine how the disciples felt who were ordered by Jesus to go to Jerusalem and wait until you are clothed with power from on high  (Luke 24:49). As they…