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Nigel Biggar, Lord Biggar of Castle Douglas, C.B.E., is an Anglican priest, moral theologian, and member of the House of Lords. He is Emeritus Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology at the University of Oxford and Distinguished Scholar in Residence at Pusey House, Oxford. Created Baron Biggar of Castle Douglas in January 2025, he was introduced to the House of Lords later that month.

Lord Biggar read Modern History at the University of Oxford before undertaking graduate study in religious studies and Christian theology at the University of Chicago, where he completed his Ph.D. He served as Chaplain and Research Fellow at Oriel College, Oxford, and subsequently held professorships in theology and ethics at the University of Leeds and Trinity College Dublin. He later returned to Oxford as Regius Professor and founded the McDonald Centre for Theology, Ethics, and Public Life, holding the chair until his retirement in 2022.

His scholarship brings Christian moral theology to bear upon the judgment of public affairs. He has written especially on when war may be just, how imperial rule should be judged, what moral weight belongs to nations and rights, and whether euthanasia may ever be licit. His books include Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning, What's Wrong with Rights?, Between Kin and Cosmopolis: An Ethic of the Nation, In Defence of War, and Aiming to Kill: The Ethics of Suicide and Euthanasia.

Lord Biggar was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2021 for services to higher education. He chairs the board of trustees of the Free Speech Union and has served on the Pontifical Academy for Life and the Royal College of Physicians' Committee on Ethical Issues in Medicine. He has also lectured at senior military institutions in Britain, Germany, and the United States.

Patrick J. Deneen is Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame and a leading scholar of political theory and American political thought. His scholarship concerns the history of political thought, constitutionalism, and the liberal and conservative traditions.

He holds a B.A. in English literature and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Rutgers University. From 1995 to 1997, he served as Speechwriter and Special Advisor to the Director of the United States Information Agency. He subsequently taught at Princeton University and Georgetown University before joining the faculty of Notre Dame in 2012.

He is the author of Democratic Faith, Why Liberalism Failed, Regime Change: Toward a Postliberal Future, and American Odyssey: What an Ancient Story Reveals about Our Divided Souls, as well as numerous scholarly articles, essays, and reviews. His doctoral dissertation received the American Political Science Association's Leo Strauss Award for Best Dissertation in Political Theory in 1995, and his first book received an honorable mention for the APSA's Best First Book Award in 2000.

Professor Thomas Pink is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at King's College London. His scholarship ranges across ethics, free will, the metaphysics of power and causation, and political and legal philosophy. He also works on medieval and early modern thought, with particular attention to the natural-law tradition, Francisco Suárez, and Thomas Hobbes.

Professor Pink read history and philosophy at Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he completed a Ph.D. in philosophy on rational choice theory. He then worked with Kleinwort Benson as a merchant banker in London and the United States before returning to academic life as a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. After teaching at the University of Sheffield, he joined King's College London in 1996. He ceased teaching in 2022 but remains active in research, publication, and lecturing in Britain and abroad, including Harvard, Berkeley, and Notre Dame.

His books include The Psychology of Freedom, Free Will: A Very Short Introduction, and The Ethics of Action, Volume 1: Self-Determination. He edited Selections from the Political Works of Francisco Suárez and is preparing a scholarly edition of the debate between Thomas Hobbes and John Bramhall on liberty and necessity for the Clarendon Edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes.

Professor Pink's political work concerns natural law, legal authority, religious liberty, and the proper relations of Church and state. He argues for an account of law as communicative and directive, rather than merely coordinative, and has described the state as a “coercive teacher” ordered toward the common good. His writing on Catholic integralism defends the continuity of Dignitatis Humanae with earlier papal teaching and has included long-running public debates over whether law may properly direct and regulate belief.

He is a director of Politeia, the London-based think tank for economic, constitutional, and social policy. He is also a patron of the Latin Mass Society of England and Wales, which works to preserve and promote the Traditional Latin Mass and the liturgical, musical, and devotional inheritance associated with it.

The Right Reverend Dr. Martin Warner is Priest in Charge of St. Peter's, Folkestone, a traditional Anglo-Catholic parish in the Diocese of Canterbury under the episcopal care of the Bishop of Richborough. He was licensed to the parish on July 7, 2026, following his retirement as Bishop of Chichester, an office he had held since 2012.

Dr. Warner studied at St. Chad's College, Durham, and trained for ordination at St. Stephen's House, Oxford, before completing a Ph.D. at Durham with a thesis on the Virgin Mary. Ordained deacon in 1984 and priest in 1985, he served as Assistant Curate of St. Peter's, Plymouth, and Team Vicar of the Parish of the Resurrection, Leicester.

From 1993 to 2002, he was Priest Administrator of the Anglican Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham. He subsequently served as a residentiary canon of St. Paul's Cathedral, first as Canon Pastor and later as Canon Treasurer. Consecrated Bishop of Whitby in 2010, he was translated to Chichester in 2012.

Dr. Warner was introduced to the House of Lords as a Lord Spiritual on January 15, 2018, and served there until his episcopal retirement in 2026. He is a member of the Council of Bishops of The Society, an association of traditionalist Anglo-Catholics within the Church of England. He is a regular contributor to the Church Times and the author of five books.