Anglican Community Project

. . .from Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, author and activist in the 'new monasticism' movement: Christian Community w/Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove from The Work Of The People on Vimeo .

Over at the Touchstone blog, Anthony Esolen writes about the history of the Church in preserving our cultural past. He writes: When I was in Sweden with my daughter this summer, we saw some churches with plaster ceilings that were entirely white.  But now and then we'd see a shadow beneath the white, and that made me wonder if there hadn't been paintings underneath, whitewashed over.  My guess was correct.  In the Enlightenment, that period of self-satisfied bigotry, the constriction of the arts, and the consigning of centuries of human learning to the flames, the smart people of the day commissioned the destruction of works of folk art that were learned, intricate, and quite beautiful.  It is hardly an isolated instance of the phenomenon of culture-destroying among deistic or antiecclesiastical elites.  Francis Bacon consigned Aristotle to irrelevance, but it is much to be doubted whether he actually read such Renaissance Thomists as Suarez and Banez, much less Thomas himsel