COMMENTARY By David W. Virtue, DD | www.virtueonline.org | August 3, 2026 If you want to know what schism actually costs — not in theory, not in press releases, but in souls — don't read a canon or a court ruling. Look at the Episcopal Diocese of San Joaquin. San Joaquin was the first full diocese to walk out of the Episcopal Church, and it did so in two deliberate steps. In December 2006, its convention voted to strike from the diocesan constitution the language by which it acceded...

COMMENTARY By David W. Virtue, DD | www.virtueonline.org | July 21, 2026 Episcopalians across the country have been invited to commemorate 50 years of pansexual inclusion in The Episcopal Church. It promises to be a memorable event affirming "that homosexual persons are children of God who have a full and equal claim with all other persons upon the love, acceptance, and pastoral concern and care of the Church." The Office of Public Affairs issued an invitation to return to...

Lawsuits, small parishes, theological differences, divided leadership, women's ordination rankle the orthodox Anglican denomination. By David W. Virtue, DD I www.virtueonline.org I June 24, 2026 Gloating about being orthodox as opposed to revisionist might seem like a winning ticket. After all, the Anglican Church in North America was born from the Episcopal Church's embrace of pansexuality, and it has watched as that revisionist denomination has paid a steep price in lost membership,...