For me, it is much easier to understand what Anglicanism is by first understanding what it is not. I am convinced of this helpful principle because my own personal journey into Anglicanism is an illustration of it. Catholic and Protestant: Neither, but Both Let’s be honest, most people think one of two things—perhaps even both!— whenever they hear “Anglicanism”: How [...]
This post is a part of Rookie Anglican, a blog dedicated to Making Anglicanism Accessible. “that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me” John 17:21 The Christian Faith is a vast sea full [...]
This post is a part of Rookie Anglican, a blog dedicated to Making Anglicanism Accessible. A Brief Defense of “Conversion” Stories Sometimes I wish I lived in Church of the first Millennia, before the Great Schism of 1054. Things would be a heck of a lot easier. One could simply say “I’m a Christian” and people would more or less [...]
Anglicans are sometimes said to be "a little bit protestant and a little bit catholic." That's probably true to some extent, as a description of what people see in a worship service. However, even though the Roman church owns the domain extension .catholic, we Anglicans see ourselves as both fully catholic and as a church of the reformation at the [...]
Last year I sat down to share my journey into Anglicanism. My plan was to start from my "pastor's kid" upbringing, a period of church limbo, my call to this church tradition, our time in a church plant, and then the call to holy orders, as well as my experience as an Anglican Rector in a church plant that became an [...]
We found ourselves in an Anglican church plant, and soon thereafter the church called its first Rector, and we moved into a museum auditorium. Museum Auditorium Turned Worship Space Its funny that my initial experience of Anglican worship was in a clubhouse, and then in an auditorium, not in a gothic church with stained glass windows. But the [...]
As I reflect on my journey, I realize that there is a lot of interpretation and selection. I hope that readers will see that I'm mostly choosing experiences that somehow later relate to being called to this tradition. Singing with my Aunt Betty around 1998 I was called to serve with my Dad at FJF church as Associate [...]
