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08/31/2026

https://www.virtueonline.org/post/on-muddying-the-anglican-waters-over-women-s-ordination

Dame Sarah Mullally's forte is thermometers not theologyCOMMENTARYBy David W. Virtue, DD I www.virtueonline.org I August 31, 2026Just when you thought the Global South might come to the rescue of the Anglican Communion over the ordination of women, it all suddenly collapses.Anglicans are brilliant a...

08/29/2026

https://www.virtueonline.org/post/on-human-sexuality-two-narratives-that-have-shaped-the-anglican-communion-can-never-equate

COMMENTARY By David W. Virtue, DD I www.virtueonline.org I August 28, 2026It is now apparent to the world’s roughly 85 million Anglicans that the Anglican Communion is irretrievably broken, and that short of repentance it will never be repaired. There is no glossing over it, no parsing it, no pret...

08/27/2026

https://www.virtueonline.org/post/he-said-he-said-two-bishops-clash-over-a-chapel-an-altar-and-holy-communion

COMMENTARY By David W. Virtue, DD | www.virtueonline.org | August 27, 2026 On multiple fronts, the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) finds itself embroiled in one ecclesiastical fight after another, with no apparent end in sight. Even as it heads toward the September 7 trial of its archbishop,...

08/25/2026

https://www.virtueonline.org/post/brazil-a-tale-of-two-churches

COMMENTARY By David W. Virtue, DD | www.virtueonline.org | August 25, 2026 They never met, and there was never any intention that they should. The country was Brazil. Spiritually and theologically, the two gatherings might as well have convened ten thousand miles apart. Two bodies of Anglican leader...

08/24/2026

https://www.virtueonline.org/post/on-his-knees-before-terror-rowan-williams-and-the-death-of-christian-nerve

Twenty-five years after the towers fell, the theologian who was there still cannot tell revenge from justice — or good from evil. By David W. Virtue, DD | www.virtueonline.org I August 24, 2026 On the morning of September 11, 2001, Rowan Williams was a hundred yards from the World Trade Center, in...

08/22/2026

https://www.virtueonline.org/post/acna-court-finds-bishop-derek-jones-guilty-on-all-four-charges

Sentencing deferred to the College of Bishops until the appeal period closes; civil litigation continues.By David W. Virtue, DD I www.virtueonline.org I August 22, 2026 The Anglican Church in North America's Court for the Trial of a Bishop has unanimously found Bishop Derek Jones guilty on all four....

08/21/2026

https://www.virtueonline.org/post/charleston-sc-the-altar-they-bled-to-escape

A South Carolina bishop shares a chancel with the church his diocese spent a decade — and half a billion dollars — to leaveBy David W. Virtue, DDwww.virtueonline.orgAugust 20, 2026 CHARLESTON, SC — On the grounds of Porter-Gaud School in Charleston, a new chapel bearing the old name of St. Tim...

08/13/2026

https://www.virtueonline.org/post/acna-the-least-of-these-disinvited

By David W. Virtue, DDwww.virtueonline.orgAugust 13, 2026 This month the Anglican Church in North America removed Archbishop Abraham Elavata an Indian Christian leader based in Patna, Bihar, from the program of its Matthew 25 conference, where he was to speak on the persecuted church in the East. Hi...

08/13/2026

By David W. Virtue, DDwww.virtueonline.orgAugust 13, 2026 This month the Anglican Church in North America removed Archbishop Abraham Elavata an Indian Christian leader based in Patna, Bihar, from the program of its Matthew 25 conference, where he was to speak on the persecuted church in the East. Hi...