Anglican Compass

Editor’s Note: This is the thirteenth in a series of articles by Dr. Stephen Noll, titled “The Jerusalem Declaration: A Personal Commentary.” Dr. Noll draws on decades of experience in the

Jonathan Alpert, Therapy Nation: How America Got Hooked on Therapy and Why It’s Left Us More Anxious and Divided. New York: Hanover Square Press, 2026. 320 pp.

When I was in graduate school training to be a therapist, we held review sessions with our professors. During a meeting with the department chairman, I pulled out my VHS tape of a co...

Since giving birth to my son, a little over two years ago, my understanding of baptism has deepened. I myself was baptized as a teenager after professing my own faith, but we baptized our son before he uttered his first words. It was in witnessing the ba...

At this point in our walk with Jesus in the Season After Pentecost Year A, we are approaching the end of his ministry in the north (mainly Galilee) before he journeys south to Jerusalem and the cross. 

The assigne...

The Anglican Church in North America’s 2019 Book of Common Prayer (BCP) belongs to a long line of Prayer Books reaching back to Thomas Cranmer’s reinvigoration of English worship. Cranmer sought to place the church’s worship i...