The Anglican Digest

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| editor = Frederick A. Robinson

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| category = Religious magazine

| frequency = Quarterly

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| circulation = 40,000 (2024)

| publisher = Hillspeak

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| founder = Howard Lane Foland

| founded = 1958

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| OCLC = 1589123

| company = SPEAK

| country = United States

| based = Eureka Springs, Arkansas

| language = English

| website = http://anglicandigest.org/

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The Anglican Digest (sometimes called TAD) is a quarterly religious magazine in the United States providing information related to Anglicanism, including news, essays, book reviews, and devotional material.{{cite journal | author= |

date=June 28, 1959 | title=Two Bright New Magazines | url= https://books.google.com/books?id=ToLkAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA3-PA58 | journal=The Living Church | volume=138 | pages=10 | access-date=2017-03-27 }} It is published by SPEAK, the Society for Promoting and Encouraging Arts and Knowledge (of the Church), which was founded as the Episcopal Book Club in 1953 by Howard Lane Foland,{{cite journal |last=Stowe |first=Walter H. |date=December 1959 |title=The Anglican Digest |jstor=42972796 |journal=Historical Magazine of the Protestant Episcopal Church |volume=28 |issue=4 |pages=303–305 }} a priest of The Episcopal Church in Nevada, Missouri.{{cite book |last=Armentrout |first=Don S. |date=2000 |title=An Episcopal Dictionary of the Church: A User-Friendly Reference for Episcopalians |publisher=Church Publishing |page=243 |isbn=0898697018}} Since 1960, it has been based on a former dairy farm in the Ozarks called Hillspeak{{cite web |url=http://anglicandigest.org/ |title=The Anglican Digest |author= |date=2017 |website=The Anglican Digest |publisher=SPEAK |access-date=2017-03-27 |quote=On St. Mark's Day in 1960, Father Foland and his colleagues arrived here at Hillspeak, which was then an 1,100-acre working dairy farm nestled deep in the rural Ozark mountains.}} near Eureka Springs, Arkansas.{{cite journal |author= |date=April 19, 1960 |title=Moving to Eureka Springs — Episcopal Book Club Leaving Nevada: Father H.L. Foland and His Staff Will Depart Monday for Arkansas |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1908&dat=19600419&id=p2IfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=p9QEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5924,4510202 |journal=The Nevada Daily Mail |volume=77 |issue=365 |pages=1 |access-date=2017-03-29 |quote=The Episcopal Book Club will move April 25 from Nevada to the 1,100-acre "Silver Cloud Ranch," three and one-half miles south of Eureka Springs, Ark.}}

The Anglican Digest affirms a "Prayer Book Catholic" heritage but says it serves "all expressions of Anglicanism: Anglo-Catholic, Broad, and Evangelical."{{cite journal |author= |date=Winter 2018 |title=Connecting Gathering Telling |url=http://anglicandigest.org/issues/winter-2018/ |journal=The Anglican Digest |volume=60 |issue=4 |page=3}} When it began in 1958, it described itself as "A quarterly miscellany reflecting the words and work of the Churches of the Anglican Communion:

:some things old

:many things new

:most things borrowed

:everything true."

James B. Simpson became executive director{{cite web | url =https://www.episcopalarchives.org/cgi-bin/ENS/ENSpress_release.pl?pr_number=80280 | title =Father Simpson to Head 'SPEAK' |author= |date =August 21, 1980 |website =Episcopal News Service |publisher =The Archives of the Episcopal Church |access-date =2017-03-27 | quote =The new executive director of the Society for Preserving and Encouraging the Arts and Knowledge (of the Church)—SPEAK—and the Episcopal Book Club, and executive editor of The Anglican Digest is the Rev. James B. Simpson...}} after its founder retired in 1980.{{cite web |url =https://www.episcopalarchives.org/cgi-bin/ENS/ENSpress_release.pl?pr_number=89084 |title=SPEAK Spreads the Word |last=Chitty |first=Arthur Ben |date=April 27, 1989 |website=Episcopal News Service |publisher=The Archives of the Episcopal Church |access-date=2017-03-27 |quote =The enterprise is linked to the printed word and is associated with many names and titles—best known are Hillspeak, SPEAK, and The Anglican Digest, names coined by its founder, the Rev. Howard Lane Foland, the legendary "Father Foland," who retired in 1980.}} At that time, it reported a paid circulation of over 100,000 worldwide.{{cite web |url=https://www.episcopalarchives.org/cgi-bin/ENS/ENSpress_release.pl?pr_number=80171 |title=SPEAK, 'TAD' Founder Retires |author= |date=May 8, 1980 |website=Episcopal News Service |publisher=The Archives of the Episcopal Church |access-date=2017-03-27 |quote=After 20 years plus its circulation is well over 100,000 and it goes into all 50 states, all Canadian provinces and almost all foreign countries.}} By 1989, subscriptions had increased to almost 250,000 with six issues per year.{{cite web |url=https://www.episcopalarchives.org/cgi-bin/ENS/ENSpress_release.pl?pr_number=89084 |title=SPEAK Spreads the Word |last=Chitty |first=Arthur Ben |date=April 27, 1989 |website=Episcopal News Service |publisher=The Archives of the Episcopal Church |access-date=2017-03-29}} However, in 2012 it reported 45,000 readers.{{cite news |last=Jackson |first=Jennifer |date=November 22, 2012 |title=Passing the books: Hillspeak a mecca for book lovers |url=http://www.lovelycitizen.com/story/1916025.html |work=Lovely County Citizen |location=Eureka Springs, Arkansas |access-date=2017-03-29}} As of 2022, TAD had not published a public statement of circulation in at least six years.

Edward L. Salmon, Jr. chaired the publication's board for 41 years.{{Cite web |title = The Right Reverend Edward Lloyd Salmon |work = Biography |date = June 29, 2016 |access-date = 2017-03-28 |url = http://www.luptonchapel.com/memsol.cgi?user_id=1822185}}

After his death, his daughter, Catherine S. Salmon, and Tony Clavier served as an editorial committee.{{cite journal |author= |title=Masthead |date=Spring 2019 |journal=The Anglican Digest |volume=61 |number=1 |page=2}} In 2020, Fred Robinson became editor.{{cite journal |author=Charleston D. Wilson |title=A Letter from the Chairman of the Board of Trustees |date=Summer 2020 |journal=The Anglican Digest |volume=62 |number=2 |page=4}}