By the Venerable Canon Dr. Kenneth D. Gillespie, OSC www.virtueonline.org November 12, 2025   On October 16, 2025, the Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON) issued a bold statement declaring "the future has arrived." In this declaration, GAFCON announced it had single handedly reordered the Anglican Communion, rejecting the traditional Instruments of Communion and establishing itself as the authentic expression of global Anglicanism. The statement claims to represent up

COMMENTARY   By David W. Virtue, DD www.virtueonline.org Nov. 5, 2025   The Most Rev. Dr. Samy Fawzy Shehata (Archbishop of the Episcopal/Anglican Province of Alexandria and Diocesan Bishop of Egypt) recently addressed the Sixth World Conference on Faith and Order, in which he called for ongoing work to “serve the unity for which Christ prayed”.   The conference which ran from 24-28 October, explored the theme: 'Where now for visible unity?' It met at the Logos Papal Center o

By Bryan Hollon Oct 24, 2025   What does a faithful church look like?   For those of us in the Anglican tradition, it means children and adult converts are being baptized and confirmed, faithful lay Christians are centered increasingly on Jesus Christ through Word and Sacrament – grounded in the biblically saturated liturgies of the Book of Common Prayer. It entails an appreciation for the apostolic faith guarded and transmitted over centuries and received through the English

A Protestant Reappraisal and Rebuttal of Purgatory’s Modern Revival   By J Neil Daniels Oct 24, 2025   I. The Strange Return of an Old Fire Not many doctrines have traveled such a curious path as purgatory. Once the bedrock of late medieval Catholic piety — an invisible realm crowded with suffering souls, masses, indulgences, and anxious relatives — it became, almost overnight, one of the great heresies of the Protestant Reformation. Martin Luther’s first hammer blows against

Reformation Anglicans see salvation is wholly of God from beginning to end     By Chuck Collins www.virtueonline.org October 21, 2025   Jacobus Arminius, Dutch pastor and theologian, died October 19, 1609. But Arminianism is alive and well in today’s church. This is especially true of American evangelicalism where Christians demand the freedom to pick and choose the elements of our personal creeds, and where we teach our children that they have unlimited potential if they wil

Rev. Dr. Ronald Moore www.virtueonline.org October 17, 2025                 There are passages of Scripture that condense vast theological truths into a few short lines, and Romans 10:14–17 is among them. In four tightly linked verses, St. Paul articulates the divine logic behind evangelism, the vocation of the Church, and the very means by which faith is born. He traces a chain of necessity — from proclamation to hearing, from hearing to belief, from belief to calling, and f

Rome Still Doesn’t Get it: Our Hope & Salvation depends on Christ’s Own Righteousness Imputed to us   By Chuck Collins...

The Rev. Dr. Ronald Moore Oct 7, 2025   When the Church of England recently enthroned a woman as Archbishop of Canterbury, the media...

By the Rev. Dr. Ronald Moore October 7, 2025   The Church in the West is dying not because God has grown weak, nor because the gospel has...

Anglo-Catholics appalling condescension towards Evangelicals and the Reformation tradition cited   By C. FitzSimons Allison...

The Rev. Dr. Ronald Moore Aug. 13 2025                         The Protestant Reformation stood not simply as a protest against Roman...

By Chuck Collins www.virtueonline.org July 24, 2025   The dogma of “papal infallibility" was officially adopted July 18, 1870 at the...

The alternative celebrates innovation without any sense as to where innovation starts and stops.   By Chuck Collins www.virtueonline.org...

By Chuck Collins www.virtueonline.org July 7, 2025     Anglicans understand that church is God’s idea and his special way of reaching his...

Anglicanism and the vices that have emerged over time. The author argues that a return to these foundational values may offer guidance...

By John Mac Ghlionn, Catholic Herald June 2025   (photo: Wikimedia Creative Commons) Rowan Williams wants to make Christianity safe for...

By Chuck Collins June 9, 2025   England’s Act of Uniformity of 1549 was the first time in the Church of England that liturgical...

By Arlie Coles THE LIVING CHURCH May 20, 2025    PUT FOTO HERE PLEASE Ray Sutton, as dean of Cranmer House, prays over-students during a...

A Primer on What They Are, Who Wrote Them, and Why They Matter   By Michael F. Bird May 5, 2025   Dr. Andrew Perrin explores key topics...

By Chuck Collins www.virtueonline.org April 25, 2025   “Church” isn’t an optional extra for Christians. Anglicans understand that church...