Category: Anglican Identity
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Wallace de Góis Silva: Why Am I An Anglican?
Porque aqui me sinto em Casa! Como a maioria dos brasileiros, fui batizado com um ano de idade na Igreja Católica Romana. Bom, até hoje não sei bem se eu estava emocionado ou apenas entediado, mas em boa parte das fotos daquele dia eu aparecia chorando. Bem, seja como for, não éramos o que se…
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Hanna Lucas: Why Am I An Anglican?
I am an Anglican to remember. I don’t mean this statement in the sense that one might say, ‘it was a Christmas to remember’; that I, personally, am an Anglican of any ‘memorable’ quality. I mean it in the sense that I am an Anglican in order to remember. For me, ‘remembering’ is the beating…
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Andrew Soshi Kawashima: Why Am I An Anglican?
I am an Anglican because Anglicanism is like the body of a tree fostering and supporting branches to me. Reflecting on myself in writing this essay, I concluded that it is difficult or even impossible to give a simple and definite answer to this question, ‘Why am I an Anglican’. Many complexly intertwined factors led…
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Reitumetse Hlongwane: Why am I an Anglican?
My parents are Anglicans, and so were their parents before them. In the natural flow of things, I would then become an Anglican, and that is exactly how things happened. I grew up in the Anglican Church, I went to church every Sunday as a child and at the time there wasn’t much I understood…
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Editorial: Why Am I An Anglican?
If you read the Call on Anglican Identity from the Lambeth Conference 2022, you might be a bit confused about what Anglicanism is. The Quadrilateral, the creeds, the sacraments, communion with the Archbishop of Canterbury. These are all good things, but when you ask young Anglicans why they are Anglican, these are not the things…