Conservatism

I left the Episcopal Church once. I left because I was still a teenager, and like many young people, I was unstable in my faith,...

By Margaret Will Covenant published two articles on public figure Tucker Carlson in 2017 and 2019. Both examined his conservative Republican visibility in the left-leaning...

By Chip Prehn Sir Roger Scruton, who died too young last January, came late to fox-hunting but made up for this by becoming one of...

In the spirit of full disclosure, let me put my cards on the table. I grew up in a conservative, white, evangelical home in...

I am going to make my case for a Christianity that is not defensive and does not subject itself to perpetual revision in order to keep up with the demands of a culture that despises the Christian faith anyway.

From its beginning, conservatism has been against things and for things. It is not an inexplicable series of reactions.

Adjudicating discipline and orthodoxy in the divided churches is profoundly complicated, especially for the “inferior” and “weaker” member-communities of the body.

That Carlson remains a part of the Episcopal Church — and could even be its most famous member —  is illustrative in a few ways.

The earth is fundamentally a religious place — a place of belonging and of worship. It is a place of holy sacrifice, with its highest expression in the Christian sacraments, which “rehearse the solution that previous explorations of the sacred could not find, which is the self-sacrifice of God” (p. 20).

As a tribute to Sir Roger’s achievement, I offer here the first in a two-part tribute to some of his recent writings.