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Common Arts That Matter

June 18th, 2025 | 15 min read

By Thomas Fickley and Fr. Mark Perkins

St. Dunstan’s Academy is the only high school in the Commonwealth of Virginia with a commercial building license. So long as that remains the case, the renewal of classical education in America will fall short of its aspirations, the sexual confusion endemic to our age will deepen and intensify, and acedia will remain firmly entrenched as our culture’s besetting sin. More precisely, without a radical transformation of our material and imaginative culture — the underlying conditions that make the notion of an educational institution literally building in its own buildings nearly unthinkable — modern and postmodern disembodiment will continue unabated.

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Thomas Fickley and Fr. Mark Perkins

Thomas Fickley is Founder and Headmaster of St. Dunstan’s Academy and a licensed commercial contractor in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Mark Perkins is Chaplain and Assistant Headmaster of St. Dunstan’s Academy and a priest in the Anglican Province of America.