Articles by Jesse Nigro
Jesse Nigro is Editor-in-Chief at The North American Anglican and lives in Omaha, Nebraska with his wife and children, where he teaches philosophy at a classical High School. He earned his BA in philosophy from Creighton University and MA in theology from Concordia University in Irvine. Jesse has been an editor and operator at The North American Anglican since 2012.
Welcome!
Welcome to The North American Anglican online! Although appearing now in a new medium, this journal still stands for classical Anglican theology. With a commitment to the Holy Bible, the 39 Articles, and the classic editions of the Book of Common Prayer, we share a common foundation with the greatest minds and souls our tradition has…
Editor’s Note Regarding “The Case for Christian Nationalism”
The North American Anglican has never condoned nor does it promote racial hatred or racial bigotry in any of its forms, nor does anyone on the editorial board. For this reason, when Thomas Achord admitted to authoring an anonymous Twitter account containing racist content, we immediately withdrew our reviews of his work. Mr. Achord did…
Secular Stories Part 4: Aristotle or Nietzsche?
This article is part of the series “Secular Stories.” Click below to read other installments: SECULAR STORIES: AN INTRODUCTION SECULAR STORIES PART 1: MACINTYRE’S ‘SUGGESTION’ AND EMOTIVISM SECULAR STORIES PART 2: THE FAILED ENLIGHTENMENT PROJECT SECULAR STORIES PART 3: THE PROBLEM WITH SOCIAL SCIENCES At the beginning of this series, I proposed that the first…
Secular Stories Part 3: The Problem with Social Sciences
This article is part of the series “Secular Stories.” Click below to read other installments: SECULAR STORIES: AN INTRODUCTION SECULAR STORIES PART 1: MACINTYRE’S ‘SUGGESTION’ AND EMOTIVISM SECULAR STORIES PART 2: THE FAILED ENLIGHTENMENT PROJECT At the beginning of this series, I proposed that the first step toward understanding this “secular” age would be exploring…
Secular Stories Part 2: The Failed Enlightenment Project
This article is part of the series “Secular Stories.” Click below to read other installments: SECULAR STORIES: AN INTRODUCTION SECULAR STORIES PART 1: MACINTYRE’S ‘SUGGESTION’ AND EMOTIVISM We started this series with a discussion and acknowledgment of the problem of increasing “secularity” for Christians living in the modern West. The society and culture that the…
Secular Stories Part 1: MacIntyre’s ‘Suggestion’ and Emotivism
This article is part of the series “Secular Stories,” click below to read other installments: SECULAR STORIES: AN INTRODUCTION SECULAR STORIES PART 2: THE FAILED ENLIGHTENMENT PROJECT A few weeks ago I proposed to guide our readers, Virgil like, through an examination of several “secular stories,” with the hope that we might arrive at a…
Secular Stories: An Introduction
This article is part of the series “Secular Stories,” click below to read other installments: SECULAR STORIES PART 1: MACINTYRE’S ‘SUGGESTION’ AND EMOTIVISM SECULAR STORIES PART 2: THE FAILED ENLIGHTENMENT PROJECT When I’m frustrated or at an impasse with a fellow Christian, I find it’s not necessarily differences in the doctrinal details of our faith…
The ‘Not-Secular’ Option: A Miserable Offender Responds
Stepping Into the Fray Over the past week, I read an article printed in this journal that I believed to be in need of some gentle correction. Before I had finished my own response, however, I noticed that another writer I admire had beat me to it, only to find myself more frustrated with this…
Review – Prolegomena: A Defense of the Scholastic Method by Jordan Cooper
Prolegomena: A Defense of the Scholastic Method. By Jordan Cooper. A Contemporary Protestant Scholastic Theology. The Weidner Institute: A Division of Just and Sinner, 2020. 358 pp. $21.60 (paperback) Whether you realize it or not, a heated debate has been taking place in Protestant circles these past few decades, over the usefulness or even compatibility…