Saint Stephen’s Anglican Church

From this week’s Newsletter.

Every age has a pet theory—or even pet theories—about education. In the mid–18th century, for example, the great sage Dr. Samuel Johnson formulated a theory of education that survived for the best part of two centuries.

According to Dr. Johnson, boys absorbed knowledge at precisely the same rate at which . . . → Read More: A case of exploding inkwells

Herewith the Rector’s commentary from the latest edition of the Newsletter.

Sometimes the things we do with the best of intentions turn out to have appalling consequences. One of the most devastating examples of this is the way in which America and much of the rest of the Western World have embraced the theory . . . → Read More: No ethics at all—and all in the name of ethics

Herewith the Rector’s commentary from the latest edition of the Newsletter.

Shakespeare fans might be forgiven for thinking Staunton, Virginia, to be an unlikely location for one of America’s best Shakespearean repertory companies. But pay a visit to Staunton’s Blackfriars Playhouse and judge for yourselves.

Actually, Staunton’s not such an odd location for a . . . → Read More: The Bard gets the measure of our latter–day puritans