North American Anglican Journal has Deep Ties to Alt-Right that Threatens the ACNA (Part 2)

By David W. Virtue, DD

www.virtueonline.org

May 26, 2025

My story on the involvement of The North American Anglican (TNAA) journal with alt-right extremists triggered a response with new evidence of even deeper involvement of some TNAA writers that pose an existential threat to the Anglican Church in North America.

Mr. C Jay Engel's involvement with TNAA is just the tip of the iceberg for that particular online journal and Mr. Nigro, TNAA editor in Chief, a source told VOL.

VOL has learned that Lee Yue, a writer for TNAA is also a writer for several far-right online magazines. He once wrote a submission at TNAA for an ethnically separated episcopate, and was published at Antelope Hill Press (a neo-Nazi press) under a pseudonym.  His blog describes himself as a NazBol (National Bolshevik) and contains translations and musings on various Portuguese fascists under Salazar (https://epeuthutebetes.wordpress.com/tag/nazbol/).  Yue is - at best - ambivalent about Jews and African Americans, and has maintained on twitter/x that while it is not a sin to marry interracially, one has a duty to perpetuate one's race and that "temporal punishment" may occur for marrying interracially.

Brandon Meeks, formerly the poetry editor at TNAA, was recently exposed as a child sex criminal, and also falsifying his academic history.  https://ministrywatch.com/anglican-scholar-accused-of-falsifying-academic-credentials-hiding-criminal-past/. Further, Meeks began posting explicitly alt-right tweets in the last year or so before his exposure.

James Clark - the author of The Witness of Beauty and Other Essays, and the Book Review Editor at The North American Anglican whose writings have appeared in Cranmer Theological Journal, Journal of Classical Theology, and American Reformer, as well as other publications - gave a positive review to Stephen Wolfe's book on Christian Nationalism, never mentioning the ethnonationalism contained in Wolfe's advocacy; even when it was pointed out to him that a white supremacist is literally quoted on the very first page of the book.

Jesse Nigro himself is in the orbit of several key players within the far-right Christian Nationalist movement, including explicit kinists and antisemites. For the unenlightened, Kinism is a controversial ideology that emphasizes the importance of preserving racial and ethnic identities within society. It is a movement that began in the early 2000s in the United States in some Reformed theological circles and churches. Kinists assert that whites have a “God-given right” to preserve their own kind and live separately from other races in their own communities. The term 'Kinist' was coined in opposition to what members of the movement view as neo-Babelists, progressive Christians that advocate inter-racial marriage, globalism, and the New World Order.

Nigro hosted Darrell Dow and reviewed the kinist manual "Who is My Neighbor? - An Anthology of Natural Relations" on his podcast, and described it as sitting on his coffee table.  When the book's co-author, Thomas Achord, was discovered to be running a grotesquely racist alt twitter account, Nigro maintained that Achord was falsely accused and helped raise money after Achord was fired. When Achord finally admitted it was his account, Nigro simply deleted all references to the Achord affair. His "following" tab on X/Twitter is full of racists and antisemites. He's taken the down the link to contributors on the front page of NAA, but it's available on Google:   https://northamanglican.com/contributors/

The question must be asked, is Mr. Nigro and others using TNAA and his connections with Anglican Compass, Logos, etc. to mainstream alt-right ideas into the ACNA? If so he is partially successful. C Jay Engel was invited to give a talk at a REC church back in October (https://www.facebook.com/GraceAnglicanScranton/photos/on-saturday-october-12th-cjay-engel-from-chronicles-magazine-will-be-speaking-on/881167524040292/?_rdr). If it's just bad judgement, then Mr. Nigro is exercising bad judgement in only a single direction.

It is absolutely vital that the far- and alt-right is kept as far from ACNA as possible, the source told VOL.

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