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David W. Virtue, D.D., established VIRTUEONLINE, an Episcopal/Anglican Online News Service dedicated to serving orthodox Anglicans around the globe. The service has successfully reached nearly 4 million readers across 204 countries.
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Three Crises Engulf Anglican Church in North America
COMMENTARY By David W. Virtue, DD www.virtueonline.org October 23, 2025 Three simultaneous crises have engulfed the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA), threatening the future of the breakaway orthodox denomination with an unprecedented convergence of scandals involving its highest-ranking leaders. Archbishop Wood Faces Sexual Misconduct Allegations ACNA Archbishop Steve Wood has been credibly accused of sexual misconduct and abuse of power, according to a Washingto
Episcopal Presiding Bishop Blasts Israel, Urges US Government to End Weapons Sales to Democratic Nation Surrounded by Enemies
No mention of Hamas in remarks to executive council COMMENTARY By David W. Virtue, DD www.virtueonline.org October 22, 2025 Episcopal Presiding Bishop Sean Rowe sharply criticized Israel in remarks to his church's executive council, describing the situation in Gaza as a "moral travesty" and calling for an end to U.S. weapons sales to Israel. Rowe blamed Israeli forces for human rights abuses, violence, and the destruction of Gaza. Notably absent from his remarks was any menti
GAFCON Declares Formation of Global Anglican Communion// GAFCON Separates from Traditional Communion Structure // GSFA Withholds Endorsement // Mullally Appointment Sparks International Response //
"God intends us to penetrate the world. Christian salt has no business to remain snugly in elegant little ecclesiastical salt cellars; our place is to be rubbed into the secular community, as salt is rubbed into meat, to stop it going bad." – John Stott Dear Brothers and Sisters, www.virtueonline.org October 17, 2025 Historic Shift: GAFCON Announces Separation The long-anticipated moment arrived Thursday morning. At 5am, my inbox contained a headline that will reshape An
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Three Crises Engulf Anglican Church in North America
COMMENTARY By David W. Virtue, DD www.virtueonline.org October 23, 2025 Three simultaneous crises have engulfed the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA), threatening the future of the breakaway orthodox denomination with an unprecedented convergence of scandals involving its highest-ranking leaders. Archbishop Wood Faces Sexual Misconduct Allegations ACNA Archbishop Steve Wood has been credibly accused of sexual misconduct and abuse of power, according to a Washingto
Episcopal Presiding Bishop Blasts Israel, Urges US Government to End Weapons Sales to Democratic Nation Surrounded by Enemies
No mention of Hamas in remarks to executive council COMMENTARY By David W. Virtue, DD www.virtueonline.org October 22, 2025 Episcopal Presiding Bishop Sean Rowe sharply criticized Israel in remarks to his church's executive council, describing the situation in Gaza as a "moral travesty" and calling for an end to U.S. weapons sales to Israel. Rowe blamed Israeli forces for human rights abuses, violence, and the destruction of Gaza. Notably absent from his remarks was any menti
GAFCON DECLARES FORMAL SEPARATION FROM THE ANGLICAN COMMUNION
Anglican communion will be reformed and reordered. We are now the Global Anglican Communion, says GAFCON chairman Archbishop Laurent Mbanda By David W. Virtue, DD www.virtueonline.org October 16, 2025 The future has arrived, declared GAFCON chairman Archbishop Laurent Mbanda. “Today, GAFCON is leading the Global Anglican Communion. As has been the case from the very beginning, we have not left the Anglican Communion; we are the Anglican Communion,” he declared. “Our Gaf
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Gafcon declaration on ‘Global Anglican Communion’ took shape in Sydney Primates held meeting with movement’s ‘founding fathers’
Peter Hayward By Muriel Porter The AGE 20 October 2025 YouTube The Rt Revd Peter Hayward, commissary for the Archbishop of Sydney THE statement from Gafcon that it had “reset” the Anglican Communion was developed at a meeting in Sydney last week, it has been revealed. In an interview posted on the website of the conservative Sydney organisation the Anglican Church League, the Archbishop of Rwanda , Dr Laurent Mbanda, who chairs the Gafcon Primates Council, said that seve
From Bastards to Brothers: Rome's Doublespeak on Anglican Holy Orders. Why Leo XIV pretends that Anglican orders are genuine when Leo XIII called them fake
By Canon Dr Jules Gomes MERE MATCHLIGHT Oct 24, 2025 Would you pretend something is authentic when you know it is counterfeit? As a lad studying the violin under the virtuoso Melbourne Halloween, I was chastened for failing to distinguish between a fake and a real Stradivarius. Antonio Stradivari was an Italian luthier renowned for crafting the world’s finest violins. His most expensive violin sold for $20million in 2022. I grew up thinking that my father owned a Stradi
U.S. ANGLICAN CHURCH ARCHBISHOP ACCUSED OF SEXUAL MISCONDUCT, ABUSE OF POWER
An attempted kiss, cash payments and other allegations roil the Anglican Church in North America WASHINGTON POST EXCLUSIVE By Ian Shapira The Washington Post October 23,2025 (Ian Shapira interviewed the priests and former employees who wrote affidavits in the presentment against the archbishop of the Anglican Church in North America. He and Reshma Kirpalani traveled to South Carolina, where Kirpalani took videos and photos for this story.) The Anglican Church in No
Church of England
CofE clergy vow to offer same-sex blessing services despite bishops’ decision
Religion Media Centre October 20, 2025 A number of clergy in the Church of England are resisting a decision by the House of Bishops which put the brakes on moves to allow stand-alone services for same-sex blessings and to allow clergy to be in same-sex marriages. Canon Simon Butler, an influential vicar in “Inclusive Evangelicals”, says the Canons of the Church of England do, in fact, permit stand-alone services. He has officiated at two in his church, Holy Trinity & St M
JD Vance calls Canterbury Cathedral exhibit 'ugly'
Joshua Askew South East BBC NEWS October 11, 2025 US Vice-President JD Vance has criticised a new installation by marginalised...
The lanyard class Archbishop
Sarah Mullally is the pure distilled essence of everything wrong with the Church of England By George Owers Artillery Row THE CRITIC 3...
Viewpoints by David Virtue
GAFCON Declares Formation of Global Anglican Communion// GAFCON Separates from Traditional Communion Structure // GSFA Withholds Endorsement // Mullally Appointment Sparks International Response //
"God intends us to penetrate the world. Christian salt has no business to remain snugly in elegant little ecclesiastical salt cellars; our place is to be rubbed into the secular community, as salt is rubbed into meat, to stop it going bad." – John Stott Dear Brothers and Sisters, www.virtueonline.org October 17, 2025 Historic Shift: GAFCON Announces Separation The long-anticipated moment arrived Thursday morning. At 5am, my inbox contained a headline that will reshape An
First Woman Bishop is New 106th Archbishop of Canterbury///CofE has Israel Problem///ACNA in Fight Over Firing of JAFC Bishop///Queer Woman Dean to lead NY Cathedral///
Bishop Howard Case Dropped by PB. He resigns TEC///Anglican Church of Southern Africa Supports Palestine, Blasts Israel The concept of...
SPECIAL VIEWPOINTS EDITION
Dear Brothers and Sisters, www.virtueonline.org September 19, 2025 For nearly forty years, the Anglican communion has roiled over...
Culture Wars
‘Roe v. Wade’ Eroded the Church’s Historic Pro-Life Consensus
Abortion and America's Churches: A Religious History of "Roe v. Wade" (Faith, Governance, and Civil Society in American History) By Daniel K. Williams (Author) 384 pages $33.54 BOOK REVIEW By Gillis J. Harp Christianity Today October 9, 2025 It was already unraveling by 1973. Repairing it today won’t be easy. After the Supreme Court’s polarizing Roe v. Wade decision in 1973, the liberal Protestant organ, The Christian Century, sometimes expressed deep ethical concerns
The Culture of Mass Delusions. Mental health and the consequences of denying reality.
(Image: Matt Kirk/Unsplash) By Dave Doveton, Anglican Mainstream September 17, 2025 Thirty years ago, if you had told another person that...
Iran’s Secret Revolution: 2,000 a Day Turning to Christ in the Heart of Islam’s Harshest Regime
By Amine Ayoub THE STREAM July, 2025 While the world’s attention remains locked on nuclear threats, anti-Israel rhetoric, and...
As Eye See It
The Cloud and the Chalice: Recovering the Embodied Church in the Digital Age
SPECIAL TO VIRTUEONLINE By Rev. Dr. Ronald H. Moore www.virtueonline.org October 25, 2025 In the modern world, much of what we call “connection” takes place nowhere at all. The great paradox of our digital age is that the more we speak of being connected, the more we live disembodied lives. Our words rise into the cloud, our faces appear as light on a screen, and our sense of community is sustained by notifications and bandwidth rather than presence and touch. Yet the Chr
The Test of a Church: How the ACNA Handles Its Own Judgment Will Define Its Future
The Rev. Dr. Ronald Moore https://southernanglican.substack.com/ Oct 23, 2025 In the wake of recent allegations against Archbishop Stephen Wood, the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) finds itself standing before a mirror. This is not a moment for triumphalism or defensiveness, nor for speculation about guilt or innocence. It is, rather, a moment for introspection—a proving ground for the very principles that gave the ACNA its existence. Every reforming movement eventu
WHY GOD CAME BACK. Faith supports education, family, and growth.
A woman praying at a service held in the Liberty Tree Mall in Massachusetts. Credit: Getty By Joel Kotkin UNHERD.COM 16 Oct, 2025 Nearly 60 years ago, Time magazine, then an important publication, posed a discomfiting question on its cover: “Is God Dead?” Yet today, a spiritual hunger grips America, with roughly two-thirds of religiously unaffiliated Americans still believing in God or a universal spirit, according to Pew . Overall, young people are drawing closer to a
Devotionals
Stand Fast in Freedom: Galatians 5:1 and the Modern Yokes of Bondage
By the Rev. Dr. Ronald Moore www.virtueonline.org August 20, 2025 "Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us...
Sola Gratia: The Unmerited Favor That Rescued the World
Grace is not a suggestion, a boost, or a cooperative handshake—it is the sovereign act of God upon undeserving sinners. The Rev. Dr....
Soli Deo Gloria: Glory to God Alone
By the Rev. Dr. Ronald Moore www.virtueonline.org August 12, 2025 There is a Latin phrase that thundered through the Reformation like a...
Theology, History and Science
The Church is Not Broken Words for a Difficult Week
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
Fire Without Flame
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
ARMINIANISM IS NOT ANGLICAN
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
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