There are people of somewhat serious intent who, looking for a spiritual home, make inquiry about the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion. Very often they ask rather simplistic questions and expect easy answers - with the attitude that one choice or another will not really make all that difference. Sometimes clergy and other people connected with the church, because invited to do so, give only simplistic response. The rapid rise of secularism and materialism, and the growing marginalization of the institutional church pushes sound doctrine and the truth and promise of the Gospel into an arid and vapid context. Yet, at the same time there hastens a growing interest and response to several systems of adult education and adult training for lay ministry in the Episcopal Church. One- to three-year night and weekend courses explore the faith and its many facets and implications.

The Rev. Donald Owens has been chaplain of Saint Anselm Canterbury Association at the University of Oklahoma in Norman for 19 years. He has built patiently and wisely on the positive experience of competent predecessors. Based upon his own experience and heartened by the response from students, he has gradually developed a teaching method and a corpus of studies, and this outline of the Faith.