Archbishop of York’s Farewell Address to Synod Is a Masterclass in Saying Nothing Beautifully By David W. Virtue, DD www.virtueonline.org July 11, 2026 The Archbishop of York rose in York on Friday to deliver his final presidential address of the quinquennium, and it must be said at the outset: the man is good at this. Stephen Cottrell has spent five years perfecting a rhetorical form all his own — the address that absorbs every criticism, confesses every failure, and leaves no one, least...

By Dave Doveton, Anglican Mainstream. (Image: PRC Propaganda Poster, Wiki Commons, Public Domain) By Dave Doveton, Anglican Mainstream. I July 11, 2026 “See to it that no-one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world and not according to Christ.” Colossians 2:8. Language is one of the marks of being human. It sets us apart from the rest of creation. It is what elevates us as image bearers of the Divine, to...

A Satirical Essay By David W. Virtue, DD I www.virtueonline.org I July 10, 2026 The Church of England announced this week that it will not meet its target of net-zero carbon emissions by 2030, and the faithful across England wept — all eleven of them. This is, of course, deeply unfair to the church. The Church of England is in fact well ahead of schedule on net zero. It is simply measuring the wrong thing. While the bean counters at Church House fret over boiler emissions and the carbon...