Issue 160 Meet the Anglicans

The Church of England in the sixteenth century

The Clapham Sect: Anglican activists of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries

From a single settlement to a national power: the Episcopal Church in America

How Anglican missionaries spread the Gospel both near and far

Some writers whose Anglican faith was central to their work

A glossary of some Anglican terms

The major branches of the Anglican heritage in a graphic depiction.

Readers respond to Christian History

I was seeking a deeper connection with my Lord at his Supper.

England’s Christian beginnings

The Reformation’s effect on a fictional parish priest.

Thomas Cranmer and the English Reformation

Seventeenth-century religious wars in England

The evangelical Anglicanism of John Newton and John Wesley

John Henry Newman and The Oxford Movement

Tracts for the Times was a series of 90 essays published between 1833 and 1841 by members of the Oxford Movement in the Church of England. Below are some excerpts that show their desire to move Anglican doctrine and practice closer to a Catholic model.

Highlights of events covered in this issue

Dissenters from the Church of England founded parallel religious communities

The influence of the broad church movement

A beloved author’s return to Anglicanism

Faces of Anglicanism in the twenty-first century

an Anglican roundtable discussion

The ACNA and African Anglicans

Africa’s influence in global Anglicanism today

Discover the history of the Anglicans—in England, the United States, and worldwide—with these resources recommended by our editors and authors.

Use these questions to help guide your understanding of the Anglican story.