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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
LIVING THROUGH SIX ARCHBISHOPS OF CANTERBURY
COMMENTARY By David Virtue, DD www.virtueonline.org October 8, 2025 I have interviewed, listened too, written about and lived through...
ACNA & JAFC BISHOPS CLASH OVER INHIBITION OF BISHOP DEREK JONES
Bishop Derek Jones By David W. Virtue, DD www.virtueonline.org October 5, 2025 It’s getting downright nasty and legal. ACNA bishops...
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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
LIVING THROUGH SIX ARCHBISHOPS OF CANTERBURY
COMMENTARY By David Virtue, DD www.virtueonline.org October 8, 2025 I have interviewed, listened too, written about and lived through...
ACNA & JAFC BISHOPS CLASH OVER INHIBITION OF BISHOP DEREK JONES
Bishop Derek Jones By David W. Virtue, DD www.virtueonline.org October 5, 2025 It’s getting downright nasty and legal. ACNA bishops...
News From Around the World
We, the Uncommon in Communion: A Lay Woman’s Lament
Perspectives from a lay leader directly impacted by recent developments between ACNA and SJAFC . By Danielle Shillingstad Adams www.virtueonline.org October 15, 2025 Three years ago, my husband and I walked into a stranger’s house with 3 kids, a piano, and a crockpot full of ziti to help out with a Sunday service targeted towards students at a local college and military families in the Virginia Beach area. Six weeks later, we left our local Anglican church, a place where
JURISDICTION OF THE ARMED FORCES AND CHAPLAINCY® FILES SUIT AGAINST THE ACNA
PRESS RELEASE Oct. 10, 2025 The Jurisdiction of the Armed Forces and Chaplaincy ("JAFC") filed a lawsuit on Oct. 6 against the Anglican Church in North America ("ACNA") for injunctive relief and damages, alleging that the ACNA violated federal and state trademark and unfair competition laws in an effort to effectively achieve a hostile takeover of the JAFC. During an emergency hearing on Oct. 8, a federal judge of the U.S. District Court for South Carolina noted that the AC
THE EVANGELICAL FELLOWSHIP IN THE ANGLICAN COMMUNION statement on the appointment of the Archbishop of Canterbury
THE EVANGELICAL FELLOWSHIP IN THE ANGLICAN COMMUNION statement on the appointment of the Archbishop of Canterbury Charting a way forward...
Church of England
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...
Betrayal of their flock: A Bishop’s rebuke to Anglican hierarchy who denounce Christians marching with Tommy Robinson
By Bishop Ceirion H Dewar THE CONSERVATIVE WOMAN September 22, 2025 I WAS there. I stood at the front of the recent Unite the Kingdom...
Viewpoints by David Virtue
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...
Lesbian Archbishop Inflames Global South // TEC on Managing Decline // New Hampshire Diocese Plummets // St. Thomas Fifth Avenue in Homosexual Scandal // Southwest Seminary Dean Fired //
Anglican Mission in South East Asia Formed // Peru gets New Bishop Without the Holy Spirit, Christian discipleship would be...
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
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
Why are Christians hung up about Sarah Mullally?
An explanation for those outside the church By Peter Leach Artillery THE CRITIC 11 October, 2025 Sarah Mullally is to be the 106th Archbishop of Canterbury, which has upset a number of Christians, especially in the Anglican community here and abroad, and particularly in Africa. Though if you aren’t a Christian, you may be confused as to why many are unhappy with the appointment. Most of the negative commentary is either written for a church audience, and hence does not ex
Sarah Mullally and Reforming the Anglican Communion
By Mouneer Anis October 8, 2025 The Church of England has announced the appointment of Sarah Mullally as the 106th Archbishop of...
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
Second Vatican Council changed the face of Catholicism forever but failed to unite Christians
Rome Still Doesn’t Get it: Our Hope & Salvation depends on Christ’s Own Righteousness Imputed to us By Chuck Collins...
Broken Lines: How Women’s Ordination Shatters Apostolic Succession
The Rev. Dr. Ronald Moore Oct 7, 2025 When the Church of England recently enthroned a woman as Archbishop of Canterbury, the media...
God Is a Verb — Stop Making Your Faith Into a Noun
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...
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