Twice per year the St. Andre Bessette Schola community gathers for an evening of discussion about some topic relevant to the rearing of our children in today’s world.
For our latest installment, please join us for a conversation with Fr. Mark Perkins about the joys and challenges of forming the young men in our culture.
Drinks and hors d'oeuvres will be served.
Fr. Mark Perkins moved back to central Virginia in 2023 with his wife and four children to help launch St. Dunstan’s Academy. Fr. Perkins is a graduate of Hillsdale College (BA, 2009) and Trinity Anglican Seminary (MAR, 2019).
Prior to entering ministry full-time, he taught for nine years at The Covenant School in Charlottesville, Virginia, where he also coached basketball and soccer. He was awarded the Rotary Club’s Mentor Award after his first semester of teaching. In 2019, Bishop Walter Grundorf ordained Fr. Perkins to the priesthood on the Feast of St. Wenceslas (September 28). Before he became Chaplain and Assistant Headmaster at St. Dunstan’s, he served for three years as Curate at St. Alban’s Anglican Cathedral in Oviedo, Florida.
Fr. Perkins played rugby at Hillsdale College and then in a men’s league after college and looks forward to introducing the boys to the sport. His love for the human scale of traditional village life and for regenerative farming emerged during a couple months working on a biodynamic organic farm in rural Upper Franconia, Germany after college. His writing on education, theology, and history has been published in First Things, Christianity Today, Touchstone Magazine, and Public Discourse. He was a plenary speaker at the 2025 Ciceronian Society conference, and his talk at the 2025 CiRCE Institute’s National Conference was a Friday Feature for Mars Hill Audio Journal. He also serves as Executive Editor for Earth & Altar (earthaltar.org) and as the Anglican Province of America’s representative on Continuing Forward.