The Episcotape Letters by David W. Virtue
The increasing implosion of the Episcopal Church with its headlong departure from the “faith once delivered” in order to accommodate itself to a secular culture is a heartbreaking experience for one who has loved and served in his Church (in some official capacity since childhood) for some 77 years.
The church's leadership in its doctrinal blindness explains the staggering loss of half of its membership on demographic lines - that the loss of membership is due to society being secular and not a time to be supporting churches.
Such pathology cries out for correction and there is no better way to do so than by humor and satire. There are few as knowledgeable and talented to do so as David Virtue. Using C. S. Lewis’ Screwtape Letters as a model he exposes in accurate and telling ways the foibles and self-destruct machinations of the Episcopal Church’s apostasy.
David Virtue has over the years been a tenacious witness and an incomparably courageous reporter. We owe him profound gratitude and thank God for him.
The Rt. Rev. Dr. C. FitzSimons Allison (SC ret.)
The church's leadership in its doctrinal blindness explains the staggering loss of half of its membership on demographic lines - that the loss of membership is due to society being secular and not a time to be supporting churches.
Such pathology cries out for correction and there is no better way to do so than by humor and satire. There are few as knowledgeable and talented to do so as David Virtue. Using C. S. Lewis’ Screwtape Letters as a model he exposes in accurate and telling ways the foibles and self-destruct machinations of the Episcopal Church’s apostasy.
David Virtue has over the years been a tenacious witness and an incomparably courageous reporter. We owe him profound gratitude and thank God for him.
The Rt. Rev. Dr. C. FitzSimons Allison (SC ret.)
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I have known David for fifty years to be a courageous and perceptive Christian journalist whose work has informed the Anglican world of the painful realities of the inroads of the secular culture into the institutional church. His clever satirical writing chronicles the decline of biblical orthodoxy in the Episcopal Church, the surrender to the zeitgeist, the persecution of the faithful clergy, the apostasy and vindictiveness of the hierarchy and the birth of new Anglican congregations and jurisdictions. His contributions will serve as an important historical source and contemporary witness in the future.
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