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• Virtue Online2026-10-16✓ Read

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  “Let us watch against pride in every shape — pride of intellect, pride of wealth, pride of our own goodness. Nothing is so likely to keep a person out of heaven, and prevent them from seeing Christ, as pride. So long as we think we are something we shall never be saved.” — J.C. Ryle“God’s love is not a reward for repentance. Repentance is itself a response to God’s gracious initiative.” — Dr. Ronald Moore“If you should ask me what are the ways of God, I would tell you that the first is humility,

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• Virtue Online2026-10-15✓ Read

  The Dead Cat Bounce in Episcopal Pews

  The Episcopal News Service sees stabilization. The 2025 Parochial Report shows a church that has lost a third of itself in ten years.By David W. Virtue, DD www.virtueonline.org October 15, 2026 The Episcopal News Service is very good at what it does. Give it a decade of hemorrhage and it will give you back a headline about stabilization. Its account of the newly released 2025 Parochial Report tells us that attendance is “stabilizing,” that finances are steady, that younger attenders are excite

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• Virtue Online2026-10-14✓ Read

  Episcopal Church Holds Revival — Nobody Came

  A satirical essay By David W. Virtue, DD www.virtueonline.org October 14, 2026 The Rt. Rev. Wilbert Smitherspoon, Bishop of the Diocese of Lower Wokefield, has ordered his priests to hold a revival at the local arena, a 12,000-seat venue more accustomed to monster-truck rallies and the Shriners’ circus. “With all the woke causes we embrace, I thought it would be good to have a little change,” the bishop told VOL. “Not too much change, mind you. We’re Episcopalians.” The idea did not originate w

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• Virtue Online2026-10-14✓ Read

  ACNA admits bishops ignored years of abuse by fellow bishop

  By Anglican Watch A church court convicted Bishop Derek Jones of four canonical offenses and removed him from office; the denomination admits bishops knew of the misconduct but did not act.The Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) has made an extraordinary admission of institutional failure by acknowledging that bishops of its College of Bishops were aware of years of abusive behavior on the part of one of their colleagues but did not take any meaningful action.The admission came on September

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