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About "New Vision" |
Welcome to the "New Vision" website! New Vision is for Anglicans who want to hear "an alternative voice" for and/or from people of "traditionalist conscience." Since 2002 New Vision 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. But it will also air the views of those who are determined to remain within the established structures of the church, despite recent departures from biblical truth and from orthodox Anglican tradition. New Vision is not designed to be a "single-issue" website. However, the debate over human sexuality has had such a dramatic impact on the Anglican Communion worldwide, that it has been front and center from the outset. Our hope and prayer is that other issues will eventually resume their proper priority - here as elsewhere. In the meantime, New Vision provides: *news of key events and commentary for deeper reflection *access to some of the key sources of the Anglican theological heritage *a platform for voices of reason and renewal within our church. 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, we believe that God is asking us, with others, to stay and to be "salt and light" where God has placed us. So we are ready 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 and to grasp the ever new, but timeless 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 Editor) Editorial Bio | |
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(This page is maintained by Rev. Dr. John Oakes and Kirsten Oakes .) |
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