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March 04 2023 By dvirtue THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES

The prevailing powerful ideas that drove modernism such as scientific materialism (which denied the existence of the spiritual realm and promoted the conceit that science can explain everything), individual autonomy, the narrative of unstoppable progress, all contributed to the devaluing of the supernatural. The historical-critical method in Biblical Studies was arguably a development made possible by modernism.

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March 02 2023 By dvirtue GAFCON: THE PROPHETIC INDICTMENT: Thesis 8

--Scholars and bishops from the Theological Resource Group (who produced the pre-Conference book) exchanged ideas via email during the month prior to the Conference. Some of these ideas were incorporated into the Statement, but the final version is significantly richer and more comprehensive than any earlier strand.

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February 25 2023 By dvirtue Split or Stay? Encouragement for Anglican Pastors

I was born into, grew up in, and was ordained by the Episcopal Church. But years ago, I (along with our congregation in Washington, DC) wrestled through the decision to stay or leave. Much more troubling than our denomination's embrace of the contemporary sexual ethic was their clear retreat from historic Christian orthodoxy. In the hardest, most expensive decision we've ever made, we withdrew and joined many others in forming the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA).

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February 24 2023 By dvirtue AN ANGLICAN I REMAIN

Unfortunately, some who call themselves "Anglican" have departed from this confession, aimlessly wandering the trails of modernism, process theology, feminism, and social activism. These give Anglicanism a bad name. They leave a foul smell wherever they go. It is no wonder that some seek to escape the reek.

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February 22 2023 By dvirtue THE ROAD TO GAFCON: Thesis 6

The focus here is on the Gafcon movement, but it does not intend to diminish the parallel and overlapping work of the Global South Anglican Fellowship (as it was then called). In particular, the development of an Anglican Communion Covenant, which was temporarily hijacked by the Communion establishment, has been revived by the Global South Fellowship in recent years.

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February 20 2023 By dvirtue THOUGHTS ON THE ASBURY AWAKENING - President Timothy Tennent

I have been reticent to write blogs, or make a lot of public statements about this outpouring at Asbury because it is always better to stand in awe of something than to talk about something. I have been in Hughes auditorium or Estes, or both, every day and night, and it is like stepping into a flowing spiritual river. You sense the presence and power of God working in people's lives.

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February 20 2023 By dvirtue THE CASE FOR LEAVING THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND

The first was between Martin Lloyd Jones and John Stott in the 1960s. Lloyd Jones warned that faithful evangelicals could never capture the national Church for the Gospel. Stott insisted they could. Stott won the arguments and there followed a powerful evangelical renewal, launched by evangelists like David Watson, Michael Green and perhaps most famously Nicky Gumbel and his Alpha course. Stott was proved right.

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February 19 2023 By dvirtue Bishops' same-sex blessing plans are a "Dog's dinner" - Rev Ian Paul interview with Tony Rucinski

He says the Bishops were "extremely unclear" on how to "reconcile the tensions" between these two positions. In fact, he goes on, they failed to offer any "theological rationale for what they're doing". The Bishops, Ian says, were attempting to separate the Church's definition of Holy Matrimony from civil marriage. But, he points out, "no-one believes in that differentiation".

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February 16 2023 By dvirtue PUT NOT YOUR TRUST IN CLAUSE (g): A North American Perspective

Ian Paul argues that the issue facing the Church of England is ultimately theological and that "there is no institutional unity apart from theological coherence." He writes:

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