WELCOME TO THE NEW VISION BLOG!

Welcome to New Vision - a new blog for Anglicans and others seeking an alternative voice for and/or from people of traditionalist conscience.

Since 2002, the New Vision website (see links) has sought to provide a forum for those who are committed to honouring and upholding the theological orthodoxy expressed in the foundational formularies of the Anglican Church of Canada. It has also published news and aired the views of those determined to remain within the established structures of the church, despite recent departures from orthodox Anglican tradition.

This blog will offer a more personal slant on such questions, beginning with the the Anglican Church of Canada's General Synod of June 19-25 in Winnipeg where I will be a delegate from the Diocese of New Westminster. It is not designed to be a “single-issue” blog. But the debate over human sexuality has had such a dramatic impact on the Anglican Communion worldwide that it is bound to be front and centre. My hope and prayer is that other issues will eventually take proper priority - here as elsewhere.

New Vision's guiding biblical mandate is that expressed by Jesus in Matthew 5:13-16. Far from leaving the Anglican Church of Canada, or any other part of the Anglican Communion at this time, I believe that God is asking many conservatives to be “salt and light” where God has placed us and to pursue what John Stott has called “the way of witness and of protest,” which is ultimately the way of the cross.

I invite you to join in this vision of working for a biblically reformed and renewed Anglican Church. May God grant us all a church in which, to quote Article XIX of the “39 Articles,” “the pure Word of God is preached, and the Sacraments be duly ministered according to Christ’s ordinance in all those things that of necessity are requisite to the same” (BCP, p. 706).


John Oakes (New Vision Blogger)