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Britain's PM-in-Waiting and the Church of England Throw Israel Under the Bus
By David W. Virtue, DD I www.virtueonline.org I July 14, 2026 In the space of a single week, the man about to become Britain's prime minister and the Church of England's parliament both turned on the Jewish state. Andy Burnham, Labour's unopposed leader-in-waiting following Keir Starmer's resignation, apologized to the world for his party having stood too close to Israel and pledged to squeeze her harder. Days later, the General Synod, meeting in York, voted to "hear" a lib
SIN MANAGEMENT OR COVENANT ACCOUNTABILITY?
ACNA's New Title IV Canons Put a Province on Trial By David W. Virtue, DD www.virtueonline.org July 13, 2026 Are church canons little more than sin management? It is a fair question, and a cynical age has earned the right to ask it. Canon law, in the hands of a church that has forgotten its Lord, degenerates into something worse than bureaucracy. It becomes power management dressed in legal vestments. The Episcopal Church proved the point for two generations, wielding the
SIMPLER, HUMBLER, DODGIER
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 leave
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Britain's PM-in-Waiting and the Church of England Throw Israel Under the Bus
By David W. Virtue, DD I www.virtueonline.org I July 14, 2026 In the space of a single week, the man about to become Britain's prime minister and the Church of England's parliament both turned on the Jewish state. Andy Burnham, Labour's unopposed leader-in-waiting following Keir Starmer's resignation, apologized to the world for his party having stood too close to Israel and pledged to squeeze her harder. Days later, the General Synod, meeting in York, voted to "hear" a lib
SIN MANAGEMENT OR COVENANT ACCOUNTABILITY?
ACNA's New Title IV Canons Put a Province on Trial By David W. Virtue, DD www.virtueonline.org July 13, 2026 Are church canons little more than sin management? It is a fair question, and a cynical age has earned the right to ask it. Canon law, in the hands of a church that has forgotten its Lord, degenerates into something worse than bureaucracy. It becomes power management dressed in legal vestments. The Episcopal Church proved the point for two generations, wielding the
SIMPLER, HUMBLER, DODGIER
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 leave
News From Around the World
‘Kingdom Outposts’ Gifted to Anglicans
Jeffrey Walton I JUICY ECUMENISM I June 15, 2026 In 2024, the Church of the Good Shepherd received an extraordinary gift from the oldest Baptist congregation in Lynchburg, Virginia. The Anglican church first planted in 2011 that met across 15 years in homes and modest storefronts in the central Virginia city now worships under the tallest spire downtown, in what the Virginia Department of Historic Resources describes as “perhaps Virginia’s best representative of the High Vi
King Charles Discards Role as Defender of the Faith
ALBERT MOHLER I The Briefing I June 30, 2026 I want to get to an issue which is really big. It has a huge history behind it, but it also has huge, well, diagnostic dimensions about the present. I’m talking about the decision and now being announced in Great Britain about King Charles III recalibrating and redefining his role, which had been for centuries as Defender of the Faith and Supreme Head of the Church of England, his constitutional role. Now, this can be renegotiate
ACNA Approves Title IV Overhaul
By Arlie Coles I THE LIVING CHURCH I June 30, 2026 Comprehensive revisions to the Anglican Church in North America’s Title IV canons for clergy discipline were ratified by the church’s Provincial Assembly at a special virtual meeting on July 25, enacting the legislation passed unanimously by its Provincial Council a week prior. The reform radically restructures the denomination’s processes for intake, investigation, and adjudication of reports of clergy misbehavior, quintup
Church of England
UK: House of Bishops defeats PMM on same-sex relationships
The Alliance I July 13, 2026 Today, the General Synod debated a Private Member’s Motion which, if it had passed, would have undermined the doctrine of marriage as the church has received it. The amended motion stated that it is a legitimate theological perspective to believe that a committed, faithful, intimate same-sex relationship is entirely compatible with Christian discipleship and ministry. Whereas, only last year the House of Bishops affirmed that sexual intercours
CofE rebrands LLF with new same-sex marriage working groups
The Christian Institute I July 1, 2026 Church of England (CofE) bishops have now been appointed to lead groups to establish how clergy could legitimately enter same-sex ‘marriages’. Tricia Hillas, Bishop of Sodor and Man, will chair the Relationships, Sexuality and Gender Working Group, which will consider CofE rules and processes to establish quasi-wedding services for same-sex couples and legitimise clergy same-sex relationships. It will report back to the General Synod
She Pledged Palestinian Freedom From A West Bank Pulpit
She Has Never Made That Pledge For Nigeria's Massacred Christians By Jim Chimirie on X I June 23, 2026 On Sunday morning Dame Sarah Mullally, the 106th Archbishop of Canterbury, stood in a church in Birzeit in the occupied West Bank and told the congregation she would use her role to seek the peace you desire and the freedom you deserve. It was a specific, named, actionable commitment. A promise from the senior Christian voice in Britain to one community in one conflict. Se
Viewpoints by David Virtue
VIRTUEONLINE VIEWPOINTS
At every step of our Christian development and in every sphere of our Christian discipleship, pride is the greatest enemy and humility our greatest friend. — John Stott AI in some ways brings new challenges. For example, it's going to challenge the very notion of human agency. What is it that makes us human? It's the fact that we have agency. If AI takes away all the things that require human agency, then it will dehumanize us in a way we haven't witnessed before. — Carl True
VIRTUEONLINE VIEWPOINTS
"Schism is not the one who leaves, but the burden of the one who causes the schism." — Chuck Collins "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
VIRTUEONLINE VIEWPOINTS
"Churches without theological confidence often become churches without people. A Christianity without creeds eventually becomes a Christianity without a congregation." —Loren Richmond "A church unsure of what it believes about Jesus will eventually become unsure of why it exists at all." —J. Gresham Machen "It's easy—far too easy—to treat the gospel like something malleable, something we can tweak at the edges to make it more palatable, more 'reasonable,' more in step with th
Culture Wars
Christians in an age of mass manipulation – what can the church do? (Part 2: The use of language to exercise power and control)
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
Carl Trueman on the crisis of the West and why nationalism and cultural Christianity are not the answer
Carl Trueman speaks at the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship Conference 2026. (Photo: Parsons Media) Theologian Carl Trueman was at ARC 2026 to share his thoughts on why things have gone wrong in the West and what can be done to turn things around. He speaks to Christian Today about the challenges and why neither cultural Christianity nor nationalism are the answer. We heard a lot about the "deconstruction" of Western civilization during the conference and a lot of speak
From deconstruction to reconstruction: Can the West be saved?
Konstantin Kisin interviews Ayaan Hirsi Ali at the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship Conference 2026. (Photo: Andrew Parsons / Parsons Media) By Xia-Maria Mackay I Christian Today I June 23, 2026 Thousands of people have gathered from around the world in London this week, united by a common concern around existential threats to the West and a sense of urgency to reverse the course of decline. Many delegates at the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) conference
As Eye See It
Where America came from, where America is going
Three currents led to the nation we have today. Dave Ball | American Thinker | July 1, 2026 Like every great river, the American Republic owes its existence to its headwaters. Three mighty currents of moral, legal, and political thought flowed through the English colonies for nearly 170 years before converging in the Declaration of Independence. Biblical Christianity, English Common Law, and Enlightenment political philosophy each contributed essential ideas, but it was the
Statutes of Liberty
Gillis Harp on the Tyranny of Modern Freedom versus the Freedom of Jesus TOUCHSTONE MAGAZINE The 125th anniversary of Grove City College was marked by the publication of an institutional history entitled Freedom’s College. The title was appropriate given the college’s long-established defense of American political and economic freedoms. The title was also inspired by the famous Supreme Court case of the 1980s when the college defended her independence from federal interferenc
Formed for God’s Glory
Matthew Lee Anderson on reputation, catechesis, and the glory of God at the first Anglican Formation Network Conference Cooper Nye I A MERE CHRISTIAN I June 30, 2026 I'm pleased to share the first guest contribution to A Mere Christian on the Anglican Way. Cooper Nye, Trinity Anglican Seminary's Director of Executive & Academic Communications, attended this year's Anglican Formation Network Summer Conference and interviewed Dr. Matthew Lee Anderson after his opening lecture
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
The Unfalsifiable Church: Why Catholic Apologetics Resists Historical Scrutiny
By David Straw I www.virtueonline.org I July 14, 2026 This is a follow-up piece: Palace on a slope: Why coherence isn’t the same as truth https://www.virtueonline.org/post/a-palace-built-on-a-slope-why-coherence-is-not-the-same as-truth In A Palace Built on a Slope I described a closed theological system some Roman Catholic apologists have constructed. I called it the Mind Palace. It operates like Star Trek’s Kobayashi Maru. It creates a no-win scenario. No matter what evid
True Anglican Identity
By Chuck Collins I www.virtueonline.org I June 1, 2026 Anglicans can’t avoid the 16th century Reformation. It’s more than the elephant in the room; it’s the room! Ashley Null wrote this about the man who composed the Book of Common Prayer, the confession for the Church of England (The Articles of Religion), and compiled the Homilies library: “Thomas Cranmer devoted the full powers of his position as Primate of All England to inculcating the Protestant faith into every fibre
The Sin of Silence: When Knowing the Good Is Not Enough
(Image: The Good Samaritan Tending the Traveller's Wounds with Oil and Wine, from The Parable of the Good Samaritan, Heinrich Aldegrever) By Rev Dr. Ronald Moore March 24, 2026 There is a category of sin that receives far less attention than it deserves—not because it is rare, but because it is subtle. It does not shout. It does not scandalize. It does not always leave visible wreckage in its wake. Yet it is pervasive, corrosive, and deeply indicting. It is the sin of omissio
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