(Image: The Tower of Babel, Pieter Bruegel the Elder) The Rev. Dr. Ronald Moore The Southern Anglican April 8, 2026 There is a thread running quietly beneath many of the crises we see in the modern West. It is not always named, but it is widely felt. It appears in our institutions, in our public discourse, and increasingly in our moral reasoning. At its core, it is this: the elevation of the self to the highest authority. We are living in an age where the individual—his desir

The Rev. Dr. Ronald Moore https://southernanglican.substack.com/ April 2, 2026 (Image: Celebrating Communion in a Swedish Parish Church, Bengt Nordenberg, 1856) We are often told that the Church is in decline. Attendance is down. Giving is down. Evangelism is weak. Moral confusion is rising. The narrative is familiar, and in many respects, it is true. And yet, it is not the whole truth. Even now, tens of millions of Americans still attend church. Sanctuaries are not empty. Th

By David Straw www.virtueonline.org March 30, 2026 Not Another Debate on Women Clergy Before anyone misunderstands, this is not simply another article about women in ordained ministry. It is not that simple, and it is not that small. The issue runs deeper. It touches the biblical pattern for choosing bishops, the meaning of apostolic leadership, and what happens when that pattern is quietly set aside in favor of something that looks more like institutional momentum than disce

As Jews return to their land, some Christians are reshaping theology to deny that reality, revealing a deeper crisis within the Church. Armenian Orthodox worshippers arrive at the Church of the Nativity, in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, to celebrate Christmas and Epiphany, January 18, 2026(photo credit: WISAM HASHLAMOUN/FLASH90) OPINION By Pesach Wolicki THE JERUSALEM POST March 29, 2026  Something strange has been happening in certain corners of the  Christian world . Tra

By David Straw www.virtueonline.org March 24, 2026   There is a profound irony at the heart of traditional Roman Catholic apologetics. Once you see it, it is hard to miss. This is not an academic paper. I am not offering footnotes or exhaustive history. What follows is a pastoral observation based on conversations I have had over the years with a few who have converted to Roman Catholicism and on stories I have heard from parishioners. Rome has spent decades investing in ecum

By Martin Davie CHRISTIAN TODAY March 22, 2026   The American screenwriter Aaron Sorkin is best known for his seven series American political drama The West Wing, which was first aired between 1999 and 2006, and is generally regarded as the best TV political drama ever produced. What is not well known is that The West Wing was a spin off from ideas which Sorkin first developed when he wrote the script for a movie called The American President which came out in 1995.   This fi

(Image: “The Christian Martyrs’ Last Prayer” (1883) by Jean‑Léon Gérôme) By Rev. Dr. Ronald H. Moore www.virtueonline.org March 18, 2026 There comes a moment in every civilization when the tension between the world and the Church becomes impossible to ignore. For long periods the two coex

By Bishop Felix Orji March 17, 2026 Lent- St Patrick’s Day. “The Global Anglican Communion is neither a breakaway Communion nor an alternative Communion. The Jerusalem Statement clearly says that "We cherish our Anglican heritage and the Anglican Communion and have no intention of departing from it". What has occurred instead is a shift of the stewardship of the Anglican Communion from the Canterbury Instruments to the Global Anglican Communion. We are returning the Anglican

By Gavin Ashenden. March 13, 2026 Halfway Down the Nave I have just seen a photograph that stopped me in my tracks and wounded my heart. It shows Muslims sitting on the floor inside Bristol Cathedral, eating their Ramadan Iftar meal. For most people this will look like a gesture of hospitality — a moment of interfaith goodwill. For me it is something else entirely. At the entrance to this cathedral the call to prayer was sounded. You may not know what the prayer consists of?

https://mbarrattdavie.wordpress.com/ March 11, 2026   On Sunday I was asked by a member of my parish church if I could explain what was happening in the Anglican Communion. She had heard a report on the BBC about the declaration issued by GAFCON after its recent meeting in Abuja and asked what the division between GAFCON and other Anglicans was about.   The answer is that the division is about two different visions of the future of global Anglicanism.   The Nairobi-Cairo Prop

(Image: The Sun's Rays Streaming Through Stained Glass Windows of a Cathedral) By The Rev. Dr. Ronald Moore The Southern ANGLICAN Mar 04, 2026 There has been a subtle but unmistakable shift in our culture. Once, our public spaces were warm — wood, color, texture, earth tones. Even secular architecture carried a sense of rootedness. Restaurants were vibrant. Homes were paneled in natural wood. Cars came in blues, greens, reds, and deep autumn shades. Christmas lights glowed in

By Mary Ann Mueller VOL Special Correspondent www.virtueonline.org February 26, 2026   It does not matter if a person is born in Washington State or Washington, DC or Washington, England; Christchurch, Virginia or Christchurch, New Zealand; Moscow, Russia or Moscow, Idaho; Johannesburg, South Africa or Johannesburg, California; Paris, Wisconsin or Paris, France; THE Bethlehem or Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; Nogales, Arizona or Nogales, Mexico; Sault Ste. Marie, Canada or Sault St

Dr. Alice C. Linsley Biblical Anthropology blogspot February 17, 2026 As a Christian anthropologist, I read the Bible to understand how the biblical Hebrew reasoned. Their reasoning is not well represented by the term "complementarian" because that term suggests that there is no hierarchy in their reasoning. That is a false assumption. Orthodoxy requires binary reasoning. That is how the Bible presents the male-female relationship. To understand binary reasoning, we must cons

By Peter Johnston ANGLICAN COMPASS February 3, 2026   For more than 400 years, the Anglican tradition has played a central role in the development of the United States of America. The intellectual culture of recent decades has obscured this historical truth, both on account of revisionist historians who see America as a secular nation and also by the failure of Anglicans to tell our own story. But as lifelong Anglican George Washington wrote in 1794, “truth will ultimately pr

Reflections on Immigration and Unrest By Bryan Hollon https://bryanhollon.substack.com/ January 31, 2026 Paul Gustave Dore. Illustration to the Bible: The angel shows the apostle John the new Jerusalem Gustave Dore, The New Jerusalem, 1865 A faculty colleague recently expressed concern to me that Trinity students are caught between conflicting views on immigration. In their churches, they hear one message, but social media and frien

A satirical Essay By Concerned Anglican January 31, 2026 [CLASSIFIED - FOR INTERNAL USE ONLY] Meeting Date: January 2026 Location: Undisclosed Location (Definitely Not a Bunker) Present: Various Bishops Whose Names Have Been Redacted to Protect the Guilty Presiding: The Right Reverend Julian Dobbs, Dean of the Province and Definitely Not Under Federal Investigation Also Present: Bishop Jay Cayangyang, Who Is Having a Complicated Year [Recording begins mid-conversation] DOBB

By The Rev. Dr. Ronald Moore https://substack.com/@southernanglican January 21, 2026       On 20 January 2026, the Primates of the Global South Fellowship of Anglican Churches (GSFA) issued a communiqué from Victoria, Mahé, Seychelles, under the unmistakable title: “Reformation is Underway.” David Virtue has helpfully published the full text at VirtueOnline, where it deserves careful and sober reading by every orthodox Anglican.¹ This communiqué is not another protest documen

The Rev. Dr. Ronald Moore www.virtueonline.org Jan 1, 2026 Some men are not born monsters. They become dangerous because no one ever taught them how to bear their wounds. The modern world produces these men in increasing numbers — fatherless, rootless, angry, lonely, and hungry for purpose. They are not villains in the beginning. They are boys who were never discipled, men who were never pastored, souls who were never told that their worth does not hang upon their own greatne

By Wolfhart Pannenberg Good News Magazine   Can love ever be sinful? The entire tradition of Christian doctrine teaches that there is such a thing as inverted, perverted love. Human beings are created for love, as creatures of the God who is Love. And yet that divine appointment is corrupted whenever people turn away from God or love other things more than God.   Jesus said, "Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me..." (Matt. 10:37, NRSV). Love for God

By Gerald R. McDermott https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/ December 8, 2025   It would be perverse to charge all fulfillment theology with antisemitism. Many reject Christian Zionism for the plausible (but unfounded) reasons described in Mattson’s piece, and many are clearly philo-Semitic. But it might not be a bad idea for some of them to ask what W. D. Davies and other theologians started asking in the 1970s: “How did Christian Europe come to hate Jews?”   I will never forg