Received for the life of the world
Anglican worship gathers and forms the Church through Word, prayer, sacrament, and ordered ministry so that the whole baptized people may speak, embody, and serve the Gospel in the world.
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A people ordered for faithfulness
Anglicanism receives bishops, priests, and deacons as ordered ministries serving the whole baptized people through apostolic continuity, communion, accountability, and mission.
Read essayThe grace we receive
Anglican sacramental life receives Baptism and Holy Communion as gifts instituted by Christ, through which God joins us to Christ, nourishes his Church, and forms a life of holiness, hospitality, and love.
Read essayThe faith we pray
Anglicanism characteristically receives, expresses, and inhabits its theology through common, liturgical prayer that enacts the received faith and forms the Church’s loves.
Read essayScripture in the Church
Anglicanism receives Holy Scripture as the first and norming authority for the Church’s faith, read in the worship, doctrine, ministry, and common life of the Church.
Read essayThe faith once received
Anglicanism is not best understood as a novel theological system, a denominational compromise, or a loose permission structure for private preference, but as a disciplined way of receiving and practicing the apostolic and catholic faith.
Read essayWhy we need the Church
Many Christians have learned to want Christ while treating the Church as optional. Yet Christ gathers a people, not isolated believers, and gives them Scripture, fellowship, authority, worship, and the sacraments as ordinary means of grace.
Read essayThe common cup and common life
The Eucharist is never merely a private act of devotion. It is certainly personal, in the sense that each Christian comes to the Lord’s Table in repentance, faith, hunger, gratitude, and need. No one else can believe…
Read essayInstituting the Church in the world
Much of Christian life is spent inside institutions that are not the Church. We are formed by schools, workplaces, charities, neighborhoods, households, and civic bodies, and we rightly want those places to be ordered…
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