christian tradition developing out of the practices, liturgy and identity of the Church of England
Here’s something that isn’t discussed much. The Anglican Church was the state church of the English Crown. North Carolina colonists who were religious dissenters (members of any religious sect not…
When you consider the coming of the American Revolution to the colony of North Carolina 250 years ago, you might be tempted to take for granted the remarkable circumstances that…
What is happening in Europe, and where is it headed? JLF Senior Fellow Garland Tucker writes a thoughtful and thought-provoking piece for national review.com. It begins: During my recent vacation…
Today in 1860 at Oxford Univeristy Museum, Anglican Bishop Samuel Wilberforce debated biologist T.H. Huxley concerning Charles Darwin’s evolutionary theory. Here is a link to a description of the Poole…
Is it just me being weird or is it in fact weird that the Meck Dec hoopla steadfastly avoids the religious angle to Mecklenburg’s history? The Scots-Irish Presbyterian colonists had…
We’re firm believers in the classical education theory; I can recommend Douglas Wilson’s book based on Sayers’ essay, Rediscovering the Lost Tools of Learning, though at the time he was…
Bob Krumm has an excellent post showing how the gatekeeper function of the traditional media is defunct. No longer does an event need validation by the mainstream media to become…
John Locke?s treatise On Civil Government will undoubtably be on my list of the most significant books I?ve read this year. Locke?s work is heavily footnoted with the influence of…
Never let it be said that the Catholic Church has not been open-minded about its choice of pontiffs. According to this NC columnist, the church has already been led by…
Paul, this connects with the Shaftesbury presentation yesterday based on the work of Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell, who expanded on the seminal work of Michael Faraday and developed his…