Fr. Mark Perkins is the Chaplain and Assistant Headmaster at St. Dunstan's Academy. His writing has been featured at Touchstone, Public Discourse, Christianity Today, and First Things. He is a graduate of Hillsdale College and the Trinity School for Ministry and served for three years as Curate at St. Alban’s Anglican Cathedral in Oviedo, Florida.
Violence, Young Men, and the Culture War When St. Dunstan’s Academy considered naming our program for high school graduates after Moses’s longtime apprentice and eventual successor, Joshua, we had some reservations. The book of Joshua is one of the most controversial in the Bible, thanks to a brutal conquest narrative that one could accurately, if…
A few days ago I had the privilege of introducing the Anglican tradition to teachers at The Ecclesial School at St. Alban’s. The faculty are a mixed bunch — Anglicans, Eastern Orthodox, Roman Catholics, Lutherans, Presbyterians, and Baptists. Afterwards I had a wonderful conversation with a sincere and devout Baptist who wanted to understand more…
While River Devereux’s recent article “Anglicanism and Nicaea II” makes a good point here and there, it also embodies an unhistorical and cognitively dissonant approach to the Church’s first millennium. The so-called “classical Anglican” position on the Ecumenical Councils — accepting only the first four as authoritative — might be more plausible if it did…