(Image: The Good Samaritan Tending the Traveller's Wounds with Oil and Wine, from The Parable of the Good Samaritan, Heinrich Aldegrever) By Rev Dr. Ronald Moore March 24, 2026 There is a category of sin that receives far less attention than it deserves—not because it is rare, but because it is subtle. It does not shout. It does not scandalize. It does not always leave visible wreckage in its wake. Yet it is pervasive, corrosive, and deeply indicting. It is the sin of omissio

SPECIAL TO VIRTUEONLINE By Rev. Dr. Ronald H. Moore www.virtueonline.org March 8 2026 Few passages of Scripture reveal the heart of Christ more fully than John 17. Spoken on the night before the Crucifixion, this prayer stands at the threshold of the Passion. It is not merely a moment of personal devotion; it is the prayer of the High Priest as He prepares to offer Himself. The ancient Church often called this chapter  the High Priestly Prayer , and the title is fitting. In i

By Ronald Moore THEOPOLIS INSTITUTE February 17, 2026   When the Apostle Paul wrote to the Romans that Gentile believers were “grafted in” to the olive tree of Israel (Romans 11), he was not announcing the birth of a new religion but the restoration of God’s ancient purpose. The covenant was not discarded but fulfilled; the tree was not uprooted but renewed. In Christ, the promises to Abraham reach their intended harvest: the nations brought in, Israel restored, creation reco

By David MacInnes https://www.facebook.com/david.macinnes.92 March 5, 2026 Given the recent news about more than a hundred service members filing complaints that a commander told them that war with Iran is part of “God’s divine plan,” that a sitting president is “anointed by Jesus” to ignite Armageddon, it is important to make it clear how unbiblical this claim is. This claim has more to do with the fiction series of “Left Behind” and dispensational theology than it does the

By Michael F. Bird Word from the Bird March2, 2026 Introduction The Jerusalem Statement emerged from the 2008 Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON) as a rallying cry for orthodox Anglicans who felt increasingly alienated from the direction of parts of the Anglican Communion, particularly regarding attitudes to biblical authority, apostolicity, and catholic unity. Born from frustration with what many saw as theological drift in Western provinces, this fourteen-point state

By Chuck Collins www.virtueonline.org February 18, 2026   Martin Luther died in his home town of Eisleben, Germany on February 18, 1546 at the age of sixty-two. It’s impossible to overstate the impact he had on the Christian church, including the Church of England.   His theology of the cross (theologia crucis) drove all the aspects of his life and thinking. Luther wrote that there are two stories: the glory story and the cross story. The glory road is our default setting as

Ecce homo by Antonio Ciseri 2 By Dave Doveton, Anglican Mainstream February 16, 2026 In my previous article[i] on the use of language to advance an argument or a cause, I discussed the use of what are termed ‘empty’ or ‘floating’ signifiers. This term is used to define words that do not have clear meanings or words that can have different meanings in different contexts and for different audiences[vii]. Empty signifiers are useful tools to rally support for a specific cause or

By the Rev. Dr. Ronald Moore THE SOUTHERN ANGLICAN February 11, 2026   The period between the Resurrection of Christ (traditionally dated around A.D. 30–33) and roughly A.D. 125 represents one of the most formative yet least institutionally documented eras in Christian history. This was the age of the Apostles and their immediate successors — a time before formal creeds were standardized, before canon lists were fixed, and before the later episcopal structures became fully de

By Chuck Collins www.virtueonline.org February 7, 2026   Why are there so many different churches? Mostly because there are so many different views of the Lord's Supper. The unwillingness of the Medieval Catholic Church to budge even an inch to the Protestants, and the unwillingness of the 16th century reformers to yield to one another, explains the important denominational differences. Are the elements of bread and wine automatically changed into the physical body and blood

The Rev. Dr. Ronald Moore Southern Anglican Substack Jan 26, 2026 One of the most difficult tasks entrusted to the Church is not preaching mercy, nor proclaiming hope, nor comforting the afflicted. It is the duty to judge. Not to condemn — for condemnation belongs to God alone — but to discern truth from error, faith from distortion, obedience from rebellion. Without this capacity, the Church ceases to be a teacher and becomes merely a commentator. She may still inspire, stil

By Chuck Collins www.virtueonline.org January 14, 2026   Today was decision day for the Roman Catholic Church. At the COUNCIL OF TRENT meeting on January 13, 1547 the church debated “justification” - answering the most basic human question: “Can mortal man be right before God; can a man be pure before his Maker?" (Job 4:17).   Trent met off-and-on for eighteen years to address the challenge of Protestantism and the obvious abuses in Medieval Catholicism. The Catholic Church e

By Rev. Dr. Ronald H. Moore www.virtueonline.org January 2, 2026 There is a moment in every collapsing order when the problem is no longer policy, leadership, or even ideology. The problem becomes something far more basic and far more dangerous:  self-deception . We have reached that moment. The crisis of our age is not merely that nations act unjustly, but that they insist on describing those actions as virtue. We no longer argue about whether something is right or wrong; we

The Fathers and the Faith: How the Early Church Interpreted John 14:6   The Rev. Dr. Ronald Moore Dec 17   “Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by Me.” — John 14:6 (NKJV) The words of Christ in John 14:6 form the heartbeat of Christian theology, but they are also the foundation of Christian spirituality. The early Fathers did not read this verse as a philosophical axiom to be dissected—they received it as revelation,

The Rev. Dr. Ronald Moore Dec 08, 2025   It is tempting to believe that the decline of the Church means the decline of Christianity. That is the mistake the Church of England’s recent statistics make—and the same illusion many American denominations are beginning to share. A reduction in attendance is not always evidence of a waning faith; sometimes, it signals that the Spirit has moved elsewhere.   According to the Bible Society’s new report The Quiet Revival, church attenda

The Rev. Dr. Ronald Moore www.virtueonline.org Dec 07, 2025   Tertullian’s immortal line—“The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church”—was not rhetorical flourish but sober theology. Writing in the late second century, amid the savage persecutions of the Roman Empire, the African apologist observed something that history would repeat again and again: every time the world tried to silence the Church, it made her louder. Every attempt to destroy the faith only deepened i

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