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    Book Review: Welcome to Negative World, edited by Joe Rigney

    Posted on October 29, 2026
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    Joe Rigney (ed.). Welcome to Negative World: How to Read the Times You’re In. Moscow, ID: Canon Press, 2026. 172 pp. In 2022, Christian writer and podcaster Aaron Renn published an essay titled “The Three Worlds of Evangelicalism” for First Things magazine. In it, Renn laid out a taxonomy of Christianity’s decline in American life…

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    Book Review: Revolution

    Posted on September 10, 2026
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    Eric Metaxas, Revolution: the Birth of the Greatest Nation in the History of the World. Odysseus Books, 2006. 640 pp. Few contemporary Christian writers have had careers as varied as that of Eric Metaxas. A Yale-educated author, speaker, and nationally syndicated radio host, Metaxas first made his mark writing scripts for VeggieTales before becoming one…

    Book Review: My Dear Hemlock

    Posted on August 17, 2026
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    Despite the obvious connection to The Screwtape Letters, My Dear Hemlock deserves to be evaluated on its own merits as a standalone novel and for anyone who has not read Lewis’s work.

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    Book Review: Therapy Nation

    Posted on August 13, 2026
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    In Therapy Nation, Jonathan Alpert argues that therapy without direction, goals, and accountability for results has become far too common.

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    Book Review: Capable

    Posted on July 20, 2026
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    Sissy Goff and David Thomas, Capable: How to Teach Your Kids the Strengths, Skills, and Strategies to Build Resilience. Bethany House Publishers, 2026. 296 pp. Modern parenting books can be depressing reads. In book after book, authors cite frightening statistics, screen time warnings, and rising mental health issues. Parents can feel overwhelmed, even useless, by…

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    Introducing Browne’s Exposition of the 39 Articles

    Posted on July 13, 2026
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    Anglican Compass is proud to announce the republication of 19th-century bishop E. Harold Browne’s An Exposition of the 39 Articles: Volume One, the first of four volumes, now available on Kindle and in hardcover on Amazon. Complete with gently updated prose and featuring helpful commentary by James Clark, this new edition resurrects one of the most insightful…

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    Book Review: Discipology

    Posted on July 9, 2026
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    How do we start a movement and see a new generation come to the Lord? These are the questions that Discipology: The Art and Science of Making Disciples attempts to answer.

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    Book Review: Ancient Wisdom for the Care of Souls

    Posted on June 24, 2026
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    Though not written for Anglican clergy in particular, the book provides pastors generally the kind of patristic foundation our own tradition assumes. Ford and Wilhite write to pastors as pastors, applying the teaching and lives of major Fathers of the ancient church to the pastoral needs of today.

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    Book Review: What is Wrong with the World?

    Posted on June 18, 2026
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    Timothy Keller, What Is Wrong with the World?: The Surprising, Hopeful Answer to the Question We Cannot Avoid. Zondervan, 2025. 240 pp. First impressions and introductions influence and form us a great deal, whether we realize it or not. I remember meeting my wife, the birth of my children, and the feeling I had when…

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    Book Review: Time and Despondency

    Posted on June 8, 2026
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    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…