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August 28 2023 By dvirtue FRONTLINE MISSIONARIES TO MUSLIMS BUILD NEW PARADIGM IN MISSION STRATEGY (Part 1)

We've been in the Islamic World and clandestine missions for 12 years now. We were happily serving in Tanzania where I was Dean of a huge cathedral. But then the Lord opened our eyes to the unreached, people with no access to the gospel. Out of 10 missionaries, only ONE goes to the 3 billion unreached. That's 42% of the world's population. Do you see the disparity? And it's worse for missionaries who go to the Islamic World with 2 billion souls; we're only 4%.

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August 21 2023 By dvirtue Former Albany Episcopal Bishop Reflects on his Exodus from TEC into the ACNA Diocese of the Living Word

Once the guilty verdict came down from the Hearing Panel, I sensed the Lord saying, OK Bill, now you can leave. Prior to that, each time I prayed about leaving The Episcopal Church due to its continuing drift further and further away from Christ and the Truth of the Gospel, particularly in regard to marriage and human sexuality, I always sensed the Lord saying, "stay where you are and keep sharing the message I have given you to proclaim."

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August 18 2023 By dvirtue FROM EGYPT TO THE PROMISED LAND AND BACK TO EGYPT

He writes: "The ACNA and many in our parish were unaware ... that we needed to discuss, especially regarding the treatment of women, people of color, and sexual minorities. And, while within contemporary Anglican politics there's a tendency to fixate on matters of sexuality (important as they are), I want to resist this oversexualized reductionism. Our concerns include sexual minorities, but range far wider.

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August 18 2023 By dvirtue PAKISTAN: Anglican Bishop Decries Attacks on Churches

"The Christian families of Jaranwala spent the night in the fields and threshing floors in the shadow of fear to save their lives in their own country," the Rev. Saleem Khokhar told VOL.

VOL was told that Azad met with the Chief minister "concerning this terrible incident."

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August 17 2023 By dvirtue ACNA Bishop Stewart Ruch to face Church Trial for Violating Provincial Canons

A press release from the ACNA said this: "A Board of Inquiry empaneled to consider a Presentment filed in June of 2023, submitted by priests and lay persons predominantly from within the Diocese of the Upper Midwest, against Bishop Stewart Ruch III has determined that there are reasonable grounds to put the accused to trial. By canon such a determination from a Board of Inquiry shall be made public (Title IV, Canon 4, Section 6)."

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August 15 2023 By dvirtue NIGERIAN ARCHBISHOP AFFIRMS NORTH AMERICAN MISSION TO NIGERIANS

The North American Mission has "engage[d] the leadership of ACNA on some of issues of interest," he said, but one church property in Irvington, New Jersey, remains the subject of a civil lawsuit.

"We can only pray that God will intervene in these issues and give us peace. We have suffered disturbing negative media assault on our person and the Church of Nigeria but we see as part of the cost we may have to pay for the Lord."

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August 11 2023 By dvirtue THE END OF ALL THINGS?

A lot of this comes from the End Times theology of John Nelson Darby, a former Irish Anglican priest who went on to found the Plymouth Brethren movement whose dominant dispensational theology and exegesis was later exported to the U.S. becoming the rallying cry of Moody Bible Institute and Dallas Theological Seminary.

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August 08 2023 By dvirtue THREE PROMINENT BISHOPS' DEATHS HIGHLIGHT THE GREAT DIVIDE IN ANGLICANISM

In March 2021 he announced that he would be resigning from ministry in the Episcopal church due to unspecified disagreements with the direction the church was headed. At the time of his statement, Herzog was serving as priest-in-charge of St. Augustine Episcopal Church in Ilion, New York. Former Albany Bishop William Love announced that he would be joining the Anglican Diocese of the Living Word, a diocese within the Anglican Church of North America, as an Assistant Bishop.

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August 03 2023 By dvirtue Welby's Climate Change Questioned by Leading British Columnist

Many believed he did it to divert attention from the hot button issue of homosexuality and resolution 1:10 that hangs like a Damoclean sword over the whole communion, dividing many of the bishops, resulting in a number refusing to take Holy Communion with more stating they were now out of communion with the ABC, with several calling for his resignation.

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August 01 2023 By dvirtue The Ecclesiastical Fantasy World of the Rev. Cole Hartin

Mr. Hartin offered up five theses which we will examine at length.

1. Both TEC and ACNA are diminished churches because of the schism.

No one's hands are clean and no one has the higher ground -- at least on the ecclesial level. That the founding churches of the ACNA felt pressed to separate from TEC is a failure of both bodies. Both lacked the will and imagination to bear witness to Christ together.

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