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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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David W. Virtue
Revival is Uneven // The Vanishing Church // TEC's Priority Failures // Mullally's Muddled Mission // Iran's Massive Church Growth // SS Blessings Banned in CofE
Without the Holy Spirit, Christian discipleship would be inconceivable, even impossible. There can be no life without the life-giver, no understanding without the Spirit of truth, no fellowship without the unity of the Spirit, no Christlikeness of character apart from His fruit, and no effective witness without His power. As a body without breath is a corpse, so the church without the Spirit is dead. – John Stott Resistance to law enforcement is reframed as compassion. The mu
Muslims turn to Christ through Dreams
Iran’s leading underground church planter tells of a remarkable turn to Christ from Islam by his people. 3,600 churches formed. A WORLD EXCLUSIVE The following is an interview with Reza (not his real name), a Christian leader in Iran’s underground church. He is a convert from Islam; one of millions. Tens of thousands of Iranian Muslims who have come to faith in Christ; more accurately, Christ has come to them in dreams, leading them out of the bondage of Islam into the li
The End of the Anglican Church in North America?
COMMENTARY By David W. Virtue, DD www.virtueonline.org January 9, 2026 An astute observer of the travails of the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) offered this assessment: "The gravest error now afflicting the ACNA is not misconduct, nor even scandal, but a fundamental category mistake: the confusion of institutional defensibility with ecclesial fitness. Whether allegations are true or false is, at this stage, almost irrelevant. The Church does not require bishops who a
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Muslims turn to Christ through Dreams
Iran’s leading underground church planter tells of a remarkable turn to Christ from Islam by his people. 3,600 churches formed. A WORLD EXCLUSIVE The following is an interview with Reza (not his real name), a Christian leader in Iran’s underground church. He is a convert from Islam; one of millions. Tens of thousands of Iranian Muslims who have come to faith in Christ; more accurately, Christ has come to them in dreams, leading them out of the bondage of Islam into the li
The End of the Anglican Church in North America?
COMMENTARY By David W. Virtue, DD www.virtueonline.org January 9, 2026 An astute observer of the travails of the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) offered this assessment: "The gravest error now afflicting the ACNA is not misconduct, nor even scandal, but a fundamental category mistake: the confusion of institutional defensibility with ecclesial fitness. Whether allegations are true or false is, at this stage, almost irrelevant. The Church does not require bishops who a
Rwanda Bishop Remains Incarcerated on Corruption Charges
Archbishop Mbanda Corrects Anglican Ink Report on Trial Outcome By David W. Virtue, DD www.virtueonline.org January 8, 2026 The Archbishop of Rwanda, the Most Rev. Laurent Mbanda, has clarified that a bishop previously reported as acquitted of corruption charges remains incarcerated and is serving a three-and-a-half-year sentence. The archbishop's statement corrects a report by Anglican Ink claiming that the Rt. Rev. Samuel Mugiraneza Mugisha had been found not guilty of corr
News From Around the World
The Anglican Network’s Quiet Expansion in Europe. Anglican Network in Europe (ANiE) passes milestone of 100 churches; now reaching 116 local congregations.
By Bishop Josep Rossello January 21, 2026 While much of the religious news in the UK and Europe focuses on institutional decline—even as we hear encouraging reports of a "Quiet Revival" across the Western World—another story is unfolding under the radar. A quiet expansion is taking place across the continent. The Anglican Network in Europe (ANiE) has recently passed the milestone of 100 churches, now reaching a total of 116 local congregations. What began in 2013 as a sma
Primates of Global South Fellowship of Anglican Churches Issue Communique: Reformation is Underway
January 20, 2026 1. We, Primates of the Global South, met in Victoria, Mahe, the Seychelles, from 14-17 January 2026 for our first in person meeting since the inauguration of the GSFA’s Covenant Structure at our First Assembly (9th Trumpet) in Egypt in June 2024. As we met to pray, worship and take counsel together, the Seychelles national motto ‘Finis coronat opus’ (the end crowns the work) reminded us of the biblical truth that we should be steadfast in those things which
A Crisis of Integrity and Broken Promises
JAFC Press Release January 16, 2026 The author is a senior officer of the Jurisdiction of the Armed Forces and Chaplaincy who participated in the Executive Committee's deliberations regarding disaffiliation from the Anglican Church in North America. This article documents the JAFC's concerns and explains why the Executive Committee concluded that continuing to seek partnership with the ACNA was untenable. The September 2025 decision by the Jurisdiction of the Armed Forces and
Church of England
Former Archbishop of Canterbury: Putin is a heretic – he has no holy mission in Ukraine
By Rowan Williams https://www.independent.co.uk/ January 19, 2026 The former Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, has accused Vladimir Putin of “heresy” after the Russian President claimed his invasion of Ukraine was a “holy mission”. During a speech to mark Orthodox Christmas earlier this month, Putin called his soldiers “warriors” who were acting “as if at the Lord’s behest” and “defending the fatherland”. Mr Williams, who served as the Archbishop of Canterbury from 20
The time bombs in the new Archbishop of Canterbury's in-tray for 2026
BBC December 25, 2025 The church of Holy Trinity is a solid red-brick presence at the top of Guildford's medieval High Street. There has been a place of worship on the site since at least the 14th Century, and today's Georgian building includes the tomb of an archbishop of Canterbury from the reign of the Stuarts. The pre-Christmas scene here could not be more traditional - children from the local Church of England school putting on a Nativity show of song, dance and drama.
Archbishop-elect Sarah Mullally Must Resign for Safeguarding Failures
December 15, 2025 A petition on Change.org argues that Sarah Mullally should resign for safeguarding failures. It has been posted by the Rev. Fr. Paul Williamson. Williamson argues that as Bishop of London, she kept a file of false sexual allegations about the Rev. Alan Griffin for two years, which later resulted in his taking his own life. Coroner Mary Hassell confirmed this, and Mullally did not investigate to discover the truth of these allegations. She then broke the law
Viewpoints by David Virtue
Revival is Uneven // The Vanishing Church // TEC's Priority Failures // Mullally's Muddled Mission // Iran's Massive Church Growth // SS Blessings Banned in CofE
Without the Holy Spirit, Christian discipleship would be inconceivable, even impossible. There can be no life without the life-giver, no understanding without the Spirit of truth, no fellowship without the unity of the Spirit, no Christlikeness of character apart from His fruit, and no effective witness without His power. As a body without breath is a corpse, so the church without the Spirit is dead. – John Stott Resistance to law enforcement is reframed as compassion. The mu
2025: A Year to Forget//Is GAFCON and GSFA the future of the Anglican Communion? //TEC Faces Decline and Canon Application Failures//
CofE Faces Evangelical Failures and Backlash to Woman Archbishop Appointment//ACNA leadership failures//Continuing Church Mergers By David W. Virtue, DD www.virtueonline.org December 30, 2025 Dear Brothers and Sisters, 2025 was not a year to remember or repeat. The steady drumbeat of “reset” and “realignment” continued with a fractured communion. The West and North moved further away from the gospel, even as the Global South embraced the faith with greater intensity.
ACNA Archbishop to Face Trial on Three Charges//TEC has Plateaued//New ABC Embroiled in Safeguarding Issue//Scottish Woman Bishop Accused of Bullying Again//ACNA Faces Criticism over Leadership//
TAS gets $10 Million & VTS Gets $5 million from Lilly//ACNA Dean Resigns//DOMA Bishop Faces Inquiry//Pannenberg: NO to Gay Marriage QUOTES OF THE DAY The authority by which the Christian leader leads is not power but love, not force but example, not coercion but reasoned persuasion. Leaders have power, but power is safe only in the hands of those who humble themselves to serve. --- John R.W. Stott Half of Episcopal churches have an Average Sunday Attendance under 50. On the
Culture Wars
AI Can’t Write a Bible. Here’s Why.
Biblical Man Jan 21, 2026 Yuval Noah Harari stood on a World Economic Forum stage and said something that made the crowd smile and nod. “AI can write a new Bible.” He wasn’t joking. He said AI could create “religions that are actually correct.” The globalist crowd loved it. The tech bros clapped. The spiritually dead cheered. And I sat there thinking: This man has never once had Scripture read him back. Let me tell you something. I used to open my Bible like a textbook. Looki
Sin and sickness now and then
By Peter Mullen THE CONSERVATIVE WOMAN January 4, 2026 IT’S EASY to get into trouble these days – all I have to do is speak the blinking obvious in words that not even an idiot could fail to understand, and I find myself outcast as ‘far right’. The public, egged on by the conscienceless mass media, is voraciously prurient about the publication of the Epstein files. The procuring of children to satisfy perverted sexual appetites is so despicable that it is overlooked only when
8 Global Trends That Will Transform the Future Church
By Joseph Mattera THE STREAM November 22, 2025 As we cross the threshold of a rapidly shifting global landscape, the Church must prepare itself for tectonic changes that will redefine its mission, methods, and missiology. We are living in a kairos moment—a window of divine opportunity—where crises and breakthroughs collide, giving birth to movements that will reshape how the body of Christ engages culture, makes disciples, and stewards the kingdom. The following are ei
As Eye See It
Reformation Is Underway. The Global South’s Foundational Act and the Rise of the Remnant Church
By The Rev. Dr. Ronald Moore https://substack.com/@southernanglican January 21, 2026 On 20 January 2026, the Primates of the Global South Fellowship of Anglican Churches (GSFA) issued a communiqué from Victoria, Mahé, Seychelles, under the unmistakable title: “Reformation is Underway.” David Virtue has helpfully published the full text at VirtueOnline, where it deserves careful and sober reading by every orthodox Anglican.¹ This communiqué is not another protest documen
Why Broken Men Become Dangerous When Biblical Christianity Disappears. Part of the Remnant Church series
The Rev. Dr. Ronald Moore www.virtueonline.org Jan 1, 2026 Some men are not born monsters. They become dangerous because no one ever taught them how to bear their wounds. The modern world produces these men in increasing numbers — fatherless, rootless, angry, lonely, and hungry for purpose. They are not villains in the beginning. They are boys who were never discipled, men who were never pastored, souls who were never told that their worth does not hang upon their own greatne
Should we Support Gay Marriage? NO
By Wolfhart Pannenberg Good News Magazine Can love ever be sinful? The entire tradition of Christian doctrine teaches that there is such a thing as inverted, perverted love. Human beings are created for love, as creatures of the God who is Love. And yet that divine appointment is corrupted whenever people turn away from God or love other things more than God. Jesus said, "Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me..." (Matt. 10:37, NRSV). Love for God
Devotionals
PARADISE LOST
by David G. Duggan © www.virtueonline.org December 28, 2025 In my 35 plus years of being a landlord I’ve never had to evict someone–until now. After more than a year of non-payment, and eight months of legal proceedings, the sheriff finally escorted this tenant, and her young child from the apartment they had shared for three years. Welcome to C[r]ook County, IL. Undeterred and defiant, this tenant somehow made her way back to the apartment, dismantling a lock and ripping off
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....
Theology, History and Science
Will that be Trent or the Reformation on Justification?
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
Stop Lying to Ourselves
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 Door That Is a Person (Part II)
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,
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