What It Would Look Like for the U.S. Church to Be Twelve-Stepped By Jerry Kramer I www.virtueonline.org I June 1, 2026 Step One Love Shows Up Recovery does not begin with a program. It begins with an admission. Before an addict can be helped, he has to say the one sentence he has spent years avoiding: I have a problem, and I cannot fix it myself. The American church has a problem — rapid decline and deep unhealthiness — and it has spent forty years refusing to say so. What fo

By Bryan Hollon May 28, 2026 For sixteen years, I taught theology at a university in Ohio and was privileged to work with many sharp, disciplined, and ambitious students. Occasionally, I’d recognize someone with a genuine instinct for theology: a student who already knew Scripture well, could trace an argument, and understood why theological error is harmful. When that happened, I’d try to move the conversation beyond grades and careers and towards vocation. I once asked

By Dr Campbell Campbell-Jack THE CONSERVATIVE WOMAN May 25, 2026 WATCHING or reading the news in recent days unavoidably fills one with at least a sense of gloom, more likely one of foreboding. It is in the interest of the vast multi-billion pound news media we allow into our homes to create this sense of unease: the worse the headline, the more likelihood that we will come back to check up on the next update – and the next. But there is a growing sense that this time they mi

Mouneer Anis, Barbara Gauthier, and Gerald McDermott The NORTH AMERICAN ANGLICAN i May 22, 2026 Global Anglicans have been congratulating themselves ever since their 2023 Ash Wednesday Statement declaring they would no longer recognize the leadership of the Archbishop of Canterbury because of the Church of England’s decision to bless same-sex couples. Their recent Abuja Affirmation gives its leaders a high-five for obeying the Bible’s “plain and canonical sense, respectful of

Special to Virtueonline By David Straw I www.virtueonline.org I May 18, 2026 Listen long enough in Anglican circles and you start hearing the same story. Conservatism means resistance. Tradition means injustice. The quiet suggestion is usually left hanging there. If you care about historic theology and biblical authority, you are probably on the wrong side of history. Real history is messier than that. And much more interesting. Some of the earliest and strongest opponents of

A Concerned Anglican I www.virtueonline.org I May 14, 2026 A Virtueonline Exclusive George Conger’s response to Jay Thomas in Anglican Ink is being presented as theological analysis. https://anglican.ink/2026/05/12/analysis-the-abuja-contradiction-that-isnt/ It is not. It is institutional apologetics, a defense of GAFCON and the Anglican Church in North America dressed in the vocabulary of Anglican ecclesiology. Before engaging the argument on its merits, it is worth pausin

A Forced Retraction, a Forced Recusal, and an Institution Running Out of Room By A Concerned Anglican I www.virtueonline.org I May 13, 2026 Special Report: A VOL Exclusive On May 8, 2026, the Right Reverend Phil Ashey, architect of the canons of the Anglican Church in North America, current Bishop Ordinary of the Diocese of Western Anglicans, and self‑declared canonical volunteer to Archbishop Stephen Wood, issued a letter to the ACNA College of Bishops withdrawing or a

By Elizabeth Woning, Op-ed contributor THE CHRISTIAN POST May 09, 2026 This week’s news of Sam Allberry’s fall sparked a question among our team at CHANGED: How might things be different today had the Stonewall activist movement of the 70s failed to pressure the American Psychiatric Association (APA) to reform its position on same-sex sexuality? That might seem like an odd tangent when discussing the moral failures of a favored Christian leader, but it is an important one for

On Bishop Phil Ashey’s May 4 Video Concerning Archbishop Stephen Wood’s Trial By A Concerned Anglican www.virtueonline.org May 9, 2026 On the eve of Archbishop Stephen Wood’s ecclesiastical trial, the Right Reverend Phil Ashey, styled by The Living Church as one of the original architects of the Anglican Church in North America’s canons, has released a v

By James Parker www.virtueonline.org May 8, 2026 NEWS: In light of recent revelations regarding Sam Allberry. British-born pastor, author and apologist, who was “disqualified from gospel ministry" following information about a past relationship with another man, VOL believes that stories of healed homosexuals need to be told. These are men and women who have renounced their past homosexual lives, and now believe that God has restored them to full heterosexuality. Their storie

COMMENTARY By Crier in the Wilderness www.virtueonline.org April 28, 2026 If you’re a Baby Boomer and a socially-conservative Christian, and you don’t understand young men nowadays, I’m writing for you. I also have something to ask of you at the end of this essay. It recently came to my attention that some of you don’t understand why a large number of young men have become shut-ins, often addicts, without career or romantic prospects. The term used for this now is “NEET

By Bishop Francis Omondi, Garissa, Kenya April 26, 2026 I began my episcopal ministry at a time when the Anglican Communion was entering significant upheaval. The early signs of strain were already evident; yet the pace and force of recent developments have surpassed what many anticipated. We now face a future we did not fully shape, but one we must nonetheless navigate with care and discernment. Recent developments—particularly the emergence of a GAFCON-led “Global Anglican

(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