This past week something truly unprecedented occurred in Anglican history. There are now two provinces of the Anglican communion that overlap territorially: The Episcopal Church of the United States of America (ECUSA) and the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA). For those of you interested in the Anglican Way, you have probably followed these developments [...]

Tags: ACNA, Anglicanism, the Episcopal Church

From a fantastic piece on Burke’s intellectual fatherhood of conservatism: Third-and this subtends and modifies the two principles above-Burke is not really a Whig in a particular sense.  Unlike so many of his contemporaries and antecedents (one thinks of John Locke), Burke sincerely and consequentially holds that belief in the Christian God precedes and informs [...]

Tags: Conservatism, Edmund Burke, Eschatology, Nota Bene, Philosophy

Roger Scruton has an excellent piece in StandPoint Magazine on the virtues of wine. One of my favorite excerpts: And here we should again return to the religious meaning of wine. At the risk of drastically oversimplifying, I suggest that there are two quite distinct strands that compose the religious consciousness, and that our understanding [...]

Tags: Nota Bene, Religion, Roger Scruton, Wine

In my opinion–and this comes from looking at modernity from a theological perspective, a political philosophical perspective, a political science perspective, and (now, learning) from an international relations perspective–modernity is a mindset that touches everything from science, to politics, and religion, and “big social institutions” to relationships, and it can be summed up in two words.  [...]

Tags: Conservatism, Modernity, Nostalgia, Romanticism