One frequent contributor to Virtue Online is Mike McManus, whose best known efforts are at saving marriages. He was featured on the 7 March 2008 700 Club, and that segment is this week's (delayed) podcast.
Honor Moore: My Father, the Bishop, was gay. So what’s the big deal?
Honor Moore's article in the New Yorker about her father, the Rt. Rev. Paul Moore, Episcopal Bishop of New York, and the discovery that he was homosexual, has generated quite a buzz in Anglican/Episcopal blogs and websites (such as this and this.) But in reading the piece, it's hard for me to understand what the …
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Prince Harry Doesn’t Like England. Join the Club.
Prince Harry doesn't care much for the centrepiece of his realm: But Harry, third in line to the British crown, didn't seem overly happy with his homeland's press, who have given generous coverage in recent years to his partying escapades in the nightclubs of London and elsewhere. "I don't want to sit around in Windsor," …
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Ignatius, the Anglicans and the Bishops
Back in the fall, in response to my post St. Jerome's Idea of Bishops and Presbyters, Abu Daoud asked me the following: I am wondering how you square Jerome's idea with the much earlier statements by Ignatius of Antioch regarding the centrality of the bishop in the ministry of the church (ie, do nothing without …
A Relevant Feast: St. Matthias
Although the main celebration today is the Third Sunday in Lent, it's also the Feast of St. Matthias, the apostle chosen to replace Judas. The Collect for the feast is especially relevant in view of the current state of the Anglican Communion: Almighty God, who into the place of the traitor Judas didst choose thy …
The High Price of Rowan Williams’ Shar’ia Remarks
In all of the furor over Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams' remarks on Shar'ia law in the UK, one backwash many people in the West forget is the impact it will have on Christian-Muslim relations in places such as Nigeria. As David Virtue points out in his most recent newsletter: Most British pundits viewed Williams' …
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The Great Mistake (Almost) Everyone’s Overlooked
Daniel Finkelstein's post on the ten worst mistakes in British history is one of the most fascinating things I've seen on the Web in some time. But he (and, unless I've overlooked something, all but one of his respondents) have overlooked a big one: Vortigern's bright idea of bringing the Saxons over to defend post-Roman …
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If They Can Have Their Law, Why Can’t We?
Rowan Williams thinks that some in the UK should have their own legal system: Dr Rowan Williams told Radio 4's World at One that the UK has to "face up to the fact" that some of its citizens do not relate to the British legal system. Dr Williams argues that adopting parts of Islamic Sharia …
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Bible? What Bible?
The complaint from within the Church of England that it's hard to find a Bible in an Anglican church strikes me as odd, Henry VIII's decree of having one in every church notwithstanding. Since the complaint originated with Tim Cox, from Blackpool, one of England's more visited resorts, it's fitting to respond with a reminiscence …
To Leave is to Die a Little
Robert Easter's lamenting of the backwash of departing from the Episcopal Church has some merit: I'm not saying everyone needs to stay in "TEC," because many people who have been in it for any amount of time are probably too conditioned by the milieu to stand up against it or ask the hard questions. But …
Positive Infinity 