We are Anglican Christians shaped by Scripture, the Gospel, and the worshiping life of the Church.
Anglican faith is marked not by choosing between competing emphases,
but by holding together truths that belong together in Christ
BIBLICAL + CREEDAL
We believe that Holy Scripture—the canonical books of the Old and New Testaments—is the Word of God written, containing all things necessary for salvation. Scripture is our final authority in all matters of faith and practice.
At the same time, we confess the faith of the Church as it has been received and articulated across the centuries. We gladly affirm the Apostles’ Creed and the Nicene Creed as faithful summaries of the teaching of Scripture, joining our voices with Christians across time and place in the worship of the Triune God.
REFORMED + CATHOLIC
Anglicanism stands firmly within the Protestant Reformation. We affirm the authority of Scripture, the primacy of grace, and justification by faith, as articulated in the Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion , which we receive as a faithful witness to the gospel.
At the same time, we understand ourselves as catholic Christians—part of the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church. We confess the ancient faith, maintain the historic threefold ministry of bishops, priests, and deacons, and rejoice in our unity with all who are baptized into Christ and hold the faith once delivered to the saints.
EVANGELICAL + SACRAMENTAL
At the heart of Anglican faith is the Gospel: the good news that God reconciles sinners to himself by grace alone, through faith alone, in the atoning death and victorious resurrection of Jesus Christ.
This gospel is not only proclaimed; it is also given. In the sacraments of Baptism and Holy Communion, Christ meets his people with forgiveness, nourishment, and new life. Word and Sacrament belong together: the Gospel announced is the Gospel enacted, and both are means by which God forms his people in faith.
PERSONAL + PUBLIC
The gospel calls individuals to repentance, faith, and new life in Christ. God forgives sins, renews hearts, and gathers people into his family through personal trust in Jesus.
That same gospel also sends God’s people into the world. Faith takes visible shape in love of neighbor, faithfulness in daily work, care for the vulnerable, and patient commitment to the common good. Transformed lives are a sign of God’s renewing work in the world.
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If ever our theology becomes something that we cannot pray—that is a sign that there is something wrong with it.
— J.I. Packer
LITURGICAL + PASTORAL
Anglican worship follows a liturgical pattern rooted in the life of the ancient Church and renewed through the Reformation. In our common prayer, Scripture is read and preached, sins are confessed and forgiven, and God’s people are formed by rhythms that shape belief over time.
This ordered worship serves a deeply pastoral purpose. It carries us when faith feels strong and when it feels fragile. It teaches us to pray when we lack words of our own and forms us patiently, week by week, into the likeness of Christ.
LOCAL + GLOBAL
Anglican faith is lived in particular places—parishes, neighborhoods, and communities—where Christians worship, serve, and bear witness together.
At the same time, Anglicanism is a global communion. We are part of the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) through the Diocese of Christ Our Hope and share fellowship with Anglicans around the world through the Global Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans (GAFCON). We affirm The Jerusalem Declaration (2008) as a clear expression of the biblical faith that unites us across cultures and continents.