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…

Pentecost commemorates the descent of the Holy Spirit on the apostles in Jerusalem fifty days after Easter. The Spirit descended as tongues of fire, empowering the apostles to proclaim the gospel in every tongue. The result was the conversion of people from many nations and the baptism of thousands of families. Pentecost thereby fulfilled the…

Amid the turbulence of the 10th century in England, a humble monk rose up to reform and reshape the English Church, eventually even becoming Archbishop of Canterbury. St. Dunstan’s life illustrates a truth seen throughout Christian history: periods of renewal often begin in prayer, discipline, and holiness. Only then can they reshape institutions or kingdoms….

Ascension Day commemorates Jesus’ Ascension from earth to heaven on the 40th day after his Resurrection.

The Sunday after Ascension Day is the seventh Sunday of the Easter season (just as Pentecost Sunday is the eighth Sunday of Easter). Titling the Sunday as such in the BCP 2019 is a return to the tradition of earlier Anglican Prayer Books, which distinguished Ascensiontide (the ten-day period from Ascension Day to Pentecost) from…

Motherhood is holy and adorned as such by God in his Word. It is a cross of sorrows. It is a sacrifice made for others in communion with Christ.