By David W. Virtue, DD | www.virtueonline.org | September 17, 2026 By any measure, the new Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev. Dame Sarah Mullally, is the most naïve Christian figure in the world today — unless you count the Patriarch of Moscow, who has blessed Russia’s legions to retake Ukraine. Her utterances on Islam and her recent pilgrimage to Israel and the West Bank reveal a depth of ignorance unmatched in contemporary Anglican history. Boko Haram and Fulan

By David W. Virtue, DD | www.virtueonline.org | September 15, 2026 Well, what is the true state of the Church of England? Ask the men who run it and you will hear about a "Quiet Revival," a warm tide of returning young men and rising Easter numbers. Ask the widow who still turns up on a wet Sunday in a village that has lost its priest, is losing its rectory, and will soon lose its building, and you will hear something else entirely. A source deep inside the church, and

ACNA's Court for the Trial of a Bishop heard 38 witnesses over five days in Charleston. Bishop Julian Dobbs urges the province to wait in prayer, not speculation. By David W. Virtue, DD www.VirtueOnline.org September 14, 2026 CHARLESTON, SC — The ecclesiastical trial of Archbishop Stephen D. Wood, the inhibited head of the Anglican Church in North America, ended on September 11 after five days of testimony in Charleston, South Carolina. But the province he once led now faces

A Pastor’s Reckoning with the Mainline Church The harrowing story of one orthodox priest’s twenty-year ordeal at the hands of revisionist bishops — the dark ecclesiastical back-alleys they inhabit, and how they nearly destroyed the life and ministry of a faithful man. Exile and Return: A Pastor’s Reckoning with the Mainline Church, by Jacob W. Dell. Good Hill Books, 157 pp. (in pre-order) Reviewed by David W. Virtue, DD www.virtueonline.org September 14, 2026 The Rev. Jac

ACNA Archbishop must answer allegations that include sexual immorality, bullying and plagiarism By David W. Virtue, DD www.virtueonline.org September 9, 2026 CHARLESTON, SC — At long last Archbishop Steve Wood goes to trial for allegations that could derail his future hopes and aspirations and lead to a future of ignominy and shame. Exonerated, he will go back to leading a denomination struggling over the ordination of women and distrust by a growing number of laity disillu

The West, the Churches, and the Faith Betrayed Muggeridge saw it. Solzhenitsyn named it. Melanie Phillips is living it. Os Guinness traced it to the root. And the churches, God help us, have joined the demolition crew. COMMENTARY By David W. Virtue, DD www.virtueonline.org September 9, 2026 Civilizations, we are told, fall to barbarians at the gate. The truer and more terrible story is that they open the gate themselves, hand the barbarian the torch, and applaud the blaze

The hollowed-out Episcopal Church has demonstrated for all to see that the less you believe, the faster you dissipate. COMMENTARY By David Virtue, DD | www.virtueonline.org | September 8, 2026 The Episcopal Church and the United Methodist Church are in a race to the bottom. The only question is who will get there first? The Episcopal Church has just installed its first transgender cathedral dean in the Diocese of Wisconsin — a diocese that was three dioceses and is now one, f

COMMENTARY By David W. Virtue, DD www.VirtueOnline.org September 1, 2026 The Global Anglican Council — the conciliar body GAFCON raised up as an alternative to the Anglican Consultative Council, the Instruments of Communion, and the Archbishop of Canterbury — announced this week that the headquarters of the reordered Global Anglican Communion will be established in Abuja, Nigeria. No Sign of Repentance This should surprise no orthodox Anglican, whether of the West or th

Dame Sarah Mullally's forte is thermometers not theology The good ship Anglican Communion, going down by the head — women’s ordination the last thing above water. COMMENTARY By David W. Virtue, DD I www.virtueonline.org I August 31, 2026 Just when you thought the Global South might come to the rescue of the Anglican Communion over the ordination of women, it all suddenly collapses. Anglicans are brilliant at muddying the waters. The Hegelian-driven Archbishop Rowan Williams,

COMMENTARY By David W. Virtue, DD I www.virtueonline.org I August 28, 2026 It is now apparent to the world’s roughly 85 million Anglicans that the Anglican Communion is irretrievably broken, and that short of repentance it will never be repaired. There is no glossing over it, no parsing it, no pretending otherwise, no hope that if we talk long enough and lovingly enough about unity, we will somehow arrive at a different conclusion. We will not. The Fault Line and the Po

COMMENTARY By David W. Virtue, DD | www.virtueonline.org | August 27, 2026 On multiple fronts, the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) finds itself embroiled in one ecclesiastical fight after another, with no apparent end in sight. Even as it heads toward the September 7 trial of its archbishop, Steve Wood, in Charleston — on charges of sexual harassment, bullying of staff, and plagiarism — another fire has broken out in the usually bucolic Low Country of South

COMMENTARY By David W. Virtue, DD | www.virtueonline.org | August 25, 2026 They never met, and there was never any intention that they should. The country was Brazil. Spiritually and theologically, the two gatherings might as well have convened ten thousand miles apart. Two bodies of Anglican leaders — with different gods, different gospels, and different destinations — passed each other like ships in the night. Sunni and Shia without the bullets and the guns, a commun

Twenty-five years after the towers fell, the theologian who was there still cannot tell revenge from justice — or good from evil. By David W. Virtue, DD | www.virtueonline.org I August 24, 2026 On the morning of September 11, 2001, Rowan Williams was a hundred yards from the World Trade Center, in a studio at Trinity Wall Street, preparing to record a program on the spiritual life. Then the towers came down and the dust rolled in under the doors. To his credit — and one s

Sentencing deferred to the College of Bishops until the appeal period closes; civil litigation continues. By David W. Virtue, DD I www.virtueonline.org I August 22, 2026 The Anglican Church in North America's Court for the Trial of a Bishop has unanimously found Bishop Derek Jones guilty on all four canonical charges brought against him, formally condemning the founder of a breakaway chaplaincy body while leaving his punishment for a later day. The court released its opinio

A South Carolina bishop shares a chancel with the church his diocese spent a decade — and half a billion dollars — to leave By David W. Virtue, DD www.virtueonline.org August 20, 2026 CHARLESTON, SC — On the grounds of Porter-Gaud School in Charleston, a new chapel bearing the old name of St. Timothy's was set apart last week by two bishops who, by their own churches' reckoning, are not supposed to be able to stand together at the same altar. The Rt. Rev. Ruth Woodliff-

By David W. Virtue, DD www.virtueonline.org August 19, 2026 Seven primates of the Anglican Communion met recently in São Paulo, Brazil, and pledged to labor together on the great global questions of the age. They issued a statement. They affirmed dignity. They deplored colonialism, secularism, polarization, migration, corruption, and climate change. What they did not do — what they dared not do — was look out the window at their own emptying pews. They were the Most Rev.

Ryan Burge has written the most honest ledger of American religious decline in a generation. His remedy is the disease that produced it. By David W. Virtue, DD I www.virtueonline.org I August 16, 2026 Nine people in a room. That is how Ryan Burge opens The Vanishing Church, and it is where any honest reckoning with the man must begin. He counted them himself, from the front of his own dying Baptist congregation in Mount Vernon, Illinois, at the close of 2023. Seventeen year

By David W. Virtue, DD www.virtueonline.org August 13, 2026 This month the Anglican Church in North America removed Archbishop Abraham Elavata an Indian Christian leader based in Patna, Bihar, from the program of its Matthew 25 conference, where he was to speak on the persecuted church in the East. His offense was not heresy, nor scandal, nor any failing of his own. He had attended a worship conference for Kenyan congregations in the Northwest — a gathering sponsored by Arc

A church cannot summon the world to Christ while it summons its own to court COMMENTARY By David W. Virtue, DD | www.virtueonline.org | August 12, 2026 Attorneys for Archbishop Derek Jones and his Jurisdiction of the Armed Forces and Chaplaincy filed a motion on August 6 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama, Southern Division, to dismiss the defamation complaint brought against him by Bishop Julian Dobbs, the acting archbishop of the Anglican Chu

The Church of England will spend £100 million to atone for a sin its own ledgers may not record By David W. Virtue, DD | www.virtueonline.org | August 12, 2026 Give the Church of England its due. When it resolved to repent, it did so with the full apparatus of the modern conscience — forensic accountants, an oversight group, an archbishop's tears, and a hundred million pounds laid on the altar of history. The instinct behind Project Spire is not, in itself, contemptible. A