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June 03 2023 By dvirtue FIDELITY MONTH

If you are a public official and your office recognizes special days, months, etc., please officially recognize Fidelity Month. If you are a legislator, please do whatever you can according to the customs and traditions of your legislative assembly to raise the profile of Fidelity Month.

If you are a clergyman, please make sure your church or parish or synagogue or mosque or other congregation does something for Fidelity Month.

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June 02 2023 By dvirtue THREE POPES?

Sixteenth century Protestants did not find the primacy-of-Peter anywhere in the Bible. Neither did they recognize a centralized authority that mixed biblical and extra-biblical teachings (magisterium) that would dictate what Christians are to believe.

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June 01 2023 By dvirtue A response to Lord Carey on assisted suicide

The problem with this is that it is a far less compassionate position than it appears. It is built on a shaky assumption: that we could safely pass an assisted suicide law that would allow a small number of people the option of being helped to kill themselves in certain, strictly regulated circumstances.

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May 31 2023 By dvirtue THE CONTINUED RESET OF THE ANGLICAN COMMUNION

That is simply false.

There is a way forward. It is the Global South Fellowship of Anglicans Covenantal Structure, also known as the Cairo Covenant: section 1, which is a confessional statement; section 2, relational commitments; and section 3, the conciliar structures that will hold the Communion together. This has been out since 2019.

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May 29 2023 By dvirtue SIR FRANCIS DRAKE: REFORMED ANGLICAN

Sir Francis Drake is an unfortunate victim of historical revision. His statue in his Devonshire home town is threatened with removal and destruction. The great navigator is demoted to the rank of vicious and despised avaricious pirate. He has been recast as the fiery dragon of cruel and roughshod treatment of Caribbean blacks whom he ruthlessly employed in some of his daring exploits as an adventurer.

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May 23 2023 By dvirtue Kigali' trumpet's uncertain sound

One grouping, the Global Anglican Futures Conference (GAFCON) [1] is calling for a new communion. If so, who will do it and how will it be done? Another group, the Global South Fellowship of Anglican Churches (GFSA) is saying they will remain as a 'holy remnant' to reform it.

And, far more importantly, what is the theological basis of this action and, if a new communion is to be formed, of a new communion?

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May 17 2023 By dvirtue 'Divine Appointments' in Rwanda

Following the conference, I traveled across Rwanda for a full week, visiting those engaged in ministries of reconciliation, care for the disabled, and to observe teaching about spiritual gifts.

Intercessory Prayer

This second week in Rwanda was purposefully unplanned, leaving room for what my friend Jenny Noyes of the New Wineskins Missionary Network terms "divine appointments," meeting with other persons that God has specifically and unmistakably arranged.

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May 12 2023 By dvirtue "I am praying still for a change of heart..." -- Church of England

Many might wish to paint these men as being on 'different sides'; a 'leaver' and a 'remainer' in a divisive debate. But what happened next paints a much truer picture of the way faithful Anglicans in the UK relate to one another.

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May 10 2023 By dvirtue The reordering of the Anglican Communion and the correlation with contemporary events in the geopolitical world order

Colonial Anglican churches throughout the British Empire were gradually freed from dependence on the Church of England and the Crown. This process of disestablishment started in 1868 with the Church of the West Indies. Following this the See of Canterbury relinquished legal primacy over other bishops in 1874. The next step occurred with the institution of the first Lambeth Conference in 1867 by Archbishop Longley.

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May 09 2023 By dvirtue Gresham Machen and Roman Catholicism as a "perversion" of Christianity

Liberalism as another religion

The theological landscape around Machen is characterized by the pervasive infiltration of Liberalism in the Church. This is not a minor issue.

To put it bluntly, the problem is that Liberalism is not Christianity at all. According to Machen, Liberalism is "a religion which is so entirely different from Christianity as to belong in a distinct category" (6).

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