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RACISM: John Perkins vs. The Episcopal Church
By David W. Virtue, DD www.virtueonline.org March 18, 2026 John Perkins, a Black evangelical and prominent civil rights activist, died recently at the age of 95. A legendary figure, he spent his life emphasizing the need for racial reconciliation within the white church while sharply criticizing Christianity's lo
When the World Pushes Too Far. The Christian Response to Cultural Overreach.
(Image: “The Christian Martyrs’ Last Prayer” (1883) by Jean‑Léon Gérôme) By Rev. Dr. Ronald H. Moore www.virtueonline.org March 18, 2026 There comes a moment in every civilization when the tension between the world and the Church becomes impossible to ignore. For long periods the two coex
Reflections on the GAFCON (G26) Meeting in Abuja, Nigeria
By Bishop Felix Orji March 17, 2026 Lent- St Patrick’s Day. “The Global Anglican Communion is neither a breakaway Communion nor an alternative Communion. The Jerusalem Statement clearly says that "We cherish our Anglican heritage and the Anglican Communion and have no intention of departing from it". What has occurred instead is a shift of the stewardship of the Anglican Communion from the Canterbury Instruments to the Global Anglican Communion. We are returning the Anglican
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RACISM: John Perkins vs. The Episcopal Church
By David W. Virtue, DD www.virtueonline.org March 18, 2026 John Perkins, a Black evangelical and prominent civil rights activist, died recently at the age of 95. A legendary figure, he spent his life emphasizing the need for racial reconciliation within the white church while sharply criticizing Christianity's lo
North African Anglican Bishop: The Jerusalem Declaration Is Our Confession
By David W. Virtue, DD www.virtueonline.org March 12, 2026 The Rt. Rev. Ashley Null, Anglican Bishop of North Africa and a leading Cranmer scholar, addressed more than 400 conferees at GAFCON (G26) in Abuja, arguing that assent to the Jerusalem Declaration is a return to the ancient truths Anglicans have always held. At the heart of that return, he contended, lies the foundational Reformation principle of the pervasive nature of human sinfulness—and with it, the hope of the g
Episcopal Leaders Push Back on Rumors of Fatal Decline
COMMENTARY By David W. Virtue, DD www.virtueonline.org March 11, 2026 When I first saw the headline, I thought it was satire. But Episcopal Presiding Bishop Sean Rowe really said it — to more than 850 Episcopal Church leaders gathered in Charlotte to discuss the future of the denomination and what it still has to offer. Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Sean Rowe has declared that the belief that the mainline Protestant denomination is dying amid considerable attendance decli
News From Around the World
Iranian regime ‘in its death throes’, says bishop who left after revolution
By Abbie Llewelyn newsbreak.com March 13, 2026 The Iranian regime is “in its death throes”, an Anglican bishop who left the country after the revolution has said. The Rt Rev Guli Francis-Dehqani warned the regime “shouldn’t be underestimated” and that it is doing everything it can to survive another day. Speaking to the Press Association, the Bishop of Chelmsford said she “weeps what for could be coming” and that she is not currently able to contact anyone she knows in Iran.
Trinity Anglican Seminary: The Dean’s Vision for Anglican Renewal
Trophimus Center at Trinity Anglican Seminary By Jesse Nigro ANGLICAN COMPASS March 13, 2026 Trinity Anglican Seminary occupies a unique place in the life of the Anglican Church in North America. For nearly five decades, it has stood at the crossroads of renewal, reform, and formation within North American Anglicanism. Today, under the leadership of Dean and President Dr. Bryan Hollon
The Quiet Anglican Migration: Why Serious Christianity Is Growing Even As Denominations Decline
By The Rev. Dr. Ronald H. Moore www.virtueonline.org March 11, 2026 Recent commentary has highlighted the continued decline of the Episcopal Church and other historic Protestant denominations. The numbers are real and the institutional challenges are undeniable. Yet focusing only on decline risks missing another development quietly unfolding beneath the surface of Western Christianity — a slow migration of believers toward deeper, more serious expressions of the historic fait
Church of England
EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Unholy row as Justin Welby seeks to rejoin gentlemen only club
By Richard Eden, Diary Editor THE DAILY MAIL 14 March 2026 For more than 30 years he devoted himself to preaching the gospel and praying for peace and goodwill on earth. But, in the aftermath of his resignation as Archbishop of Canterbury in difficult circumstances last year, Justin Welby was always likely to find life a little less serene – although he might not have expected that one of his first, and fiercest, battles would be at the £1,700-a-year Travellers Club. That
New Church of England Bishop of Ipswich welcomes LGBTQI+ couples
By Bishop Joanne Grenfell East Anglian Daily Times February 21, 2026 Church is for everyone: God has made us to live in communities, and their foundation must be love. I believe that gay people should have the same opportunities as straight people to have their faithful, loving, and stable relationships blessed in church, and to know that the Church wants to support and celebrate the God-given love that is contained within their relationship. I value the ministry of LGBTQI+ c
If the Church of England were serious about revival, this is what they would be doing
OPINION by Bijan Omrani THE TELEGRAPH February 19, 2026 As it is, the Church simply isn’t doing enough - James Manning/PA Wire This past year, there has been a lessening of the multi-generational gloom that has hung over British churches since the 1960s. The conviction that Christianity would soon be swept away by secular modernity has been recently overturned by the “Quiet Revival”: the idea that many, particularly the young, are beginning to find faith and even retu
Viewpoints by David Virtue
GAFCON the Day After | Who Attended? | North African Bishop: "Jerusalem Declaration Is Our Confession" | IASCUFO vs. the Global Anglican Communion | TEC Scandals | Atherstone on Mullally |
ANiE Seeks Provincial Status with GAFCON QUOTES OF THE DAY "Here's how to determine God's will for your life: Go wherever your gifts will be exploited the most." — John Stott "Be very sure of this — people never reject the Bible because they cannot understand it. They understand it only too well. They understand that it condemns their own behavior, that it witnesses against their own sins, and summons them to judgment." — J. C. Ryle "The Church's one foundation is Jesus Chris
GAFCON Resets Communion // No Rival Leader to APB Mullally // Conciliar vs. Confessionalism // Canon Resigns over LLF Prayers // What is wrong with CofE? //
End Times Speculation Unleashes “Prophecy” Nutters //Gen Z least Religious in US History QUOTES OF THE DAY: "The early Church converted the Roman world without altar calls, stage lighting, or seeker-sensitive liturgies. She did it by forming disciples, baptizing converts, and worshiping God with seriousness and awe." — Rev. Dr. Donald H. Moore "The souls who don't know Christ need us to be clear in articulating the faith and faithful in presenting it with our words and our de
Educated Americans are Highest Church Attenders // Revival: Is it Really Happening? // 500 GAFCON Anglicans to Meet in Abuja // Canadian Primate Goes to Jerusalem
Cancellation of ACNA Conference on Women Causes Uproar // ACNA Bishop Julian Dobbs Sues JAFC Bishop Derek Jones for Defamation // Bishop FitzSimons Allison Turns 99 QUOTES THAT ENLIGHTEN "The Gospel should never become old to us. If the life, death, burial, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus Christ is true, it changes everything. It changes time. It changes history. It changes our eternity." — Tim Tebow Grok predicts that within the next ten years, Artificial Intelligence w
Culture Wars
The International Foundation for Therapeutic and Counselling Choice Welcomes ‘Not Guilty’ Court decision in first criminal trial of so-called ‘Gay Conversion Practices’
Issued by the International Foundation for Therapeutic and Counselling Choice (IFTCC) March 4, 2026 The International Foundation for Therapeutic and Counselling Choice (IFTCC) welcomes the ‘Not Guilty’ decision of a Malta court in what is believed to be the first criminal trial of so-called ‘Gay Conversion Practices’ The case featured Matthew Grech, 36, a Maltese Christian, a co-worker in Core Issues Trust (of which the IFTCC is a project) and co-director of X-Out-Loud.
Surprising Revival: Gen Z Men & Highly Educated Lead Return to Religion
By Joel Kotkin & Bheki Mahlobo , RealClearInvestigationsFebruary 17, 2026 The decline of religion remains a fundamental reality in most Western countries, particularly in Europe, where over 50% of those under age 40 do not identify with any faith. Even in more religious America, some estimate that as many as 100,000 churches will close in the near future. Meanwhile, the ranks of “Nones,” those outside religious communities, have grown so large that their numbers rival th
Former homosexual: Same-sex ‘marriage’ has been a disaster for children. We must overturn it
Helpless children have been Obergefell’s silent victims for years. But now, conservatives are coming together with a new campaign to push the Supreme Court to reverse the decision. The United States Supreme Court in Washington D.C. By Doug Mainwaring LIFESITENEWS Jan 28, 2026 (LifeSiteNews) — On June 26, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court took a sledgehammer to the bedrock of Western civilization when it instituted homosexual “marriage” across the land. Through its Obergefe
As Eye See It
When the World Pushes Too Far. The Christian Response to Cultural Overreach.
(Image: “The Christian Martyrs’ Last Prayer” (1883) by Jean‑Léon Gérôme) By Rev. Dr. Ronald H. Moore www.virtueonline.org March 18, 2026 There comes a moment in every civilization when the tension between the world and the Church becomes impossible to ignore. For long periods the two coex
Reflections on the GAFCON (G26) Meeting in Abuja, Nigeria
By Bishop Felix Orji March 17, 2026 Lent- St Patrick’s Day. “The Global Anglican Communion is neither a breakaway Communion nor an alternative Communion. The Jerusalem Statement clearly says that "We cherish our Anglican heritage and the Anglican Communion and have no intention of departing from it". What has occurred instead is a shift of the stewardship of the Anglican Communion from the Canterbury Instruments to the Global Anglican Communion. We are returning the Anglican
A Cathedral, a Conversion, and a photograph that has broken my heart. The surrender of Bristol Cathedral to Islam.
By Gavin Ashenden. March 13, 2026 Halfway Down the Nave I have just seen a photograph that stopped me in my tracks and wounded my heart. It shows Muslims sitting on the floor inside Bristol Cathedral, eating their Ramadan Iftar meal. For most people this will look like a gesture of hospitality — a moment of interfaith goodwill. For me it is something else entirely. At the entrance to this cathedral the call to prayer was sounded. You may not know what the prayer consists of?
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
Sanctified in Truth: The Unity Christ Prayed For. An Exegetical Reflection on John 17
SPECIAL TO VIRTUEONLINE By Rev. Dr. Ronald H. Moore www.virtueonline.org March 8 2026 Few passages of Scripture reveal the heart of Christ more fully than John 17. Spoken on the night before the Crucifixion, this prayer stands at the threshold of the Passion. It is not merely a moment of personal devotion; it is the prayer of the High Priest as He prepares to offer Himself. The ancient Church often called this chapter the High Priestly Prayer , and the title is fitting. In i
Grafted, Not Hyphenated: Why “Judeo-Christian Civilization” Obscures the Fulfillment of Israel
By Ronald Moore THEOPOLIS INSTITUTE February 17, 2026 When the Apostle Paul wrote to the Romans that Gentile believers were “grafted in” to the olive tree of Israel (Romans 11), he was not announcing the birth of a new religion but the restoration of God’s ancient purpose. The covenant was not discarded but fulfilled; the tree was not uprooted but renewed. In Christ, the promises to Abraham reach their intended harvest: the nations brought in, Israel restored, creation reco
There is no “battle of Armageddon” in the book of Revelation, says theologian
By David MacInnes https://www.facebook.com/david.macinnes.92 March 5, 2026 Given the recent news about more than a hundred service members filing complaints that a commander told them that war with Iran is part of “God’s divine plan,” that a sitting president is “anointed by Jesus” to ignite Armageddon, it is important to make it clear how unbiblical this claim is. This claim has more to do with the fiction series of “Left Behind” and dispensational theology than it does the
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