One Eternal Day

Of all the portrayals of the modern St. Nicholas  Santa Claus  —  this is my favorite. From the cover of St. Nicholas magazine, December, 1...

I've been interested in politics since I was in elementary school. I studied politics in college and graduate school. I taught high scho...

After a series of very expensive mistakes with my computer - all of which were due to my not knowing the consequences of choices I made - I ...

I have several good friends who are, or at least once were, Dispensationalists in their theological framework. I'm not and, consequently...

Many of us who were alive on November 22, 1963, had experiences similar to Patrick Kurps: No public event has shaken me so lastingly as the ...

Frederick Buechner: AFTER CENTURIES OF handling and mishandling, most religious words have become so shopworn nobody's much interested a...

From a 1971 W.H. Auden letter critical of liturgical reform : As for the Psalms, they are poems, and to 'get' poetry, it should,...

On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918, an armistice ended combat between the armed forces of the Allied Powers and Impe...

From "88 Years of Middle-Earth, 75 Years of Narnia" : During the hectic middle decades of the twentieth century, from the end of t...

Joseph Loconte on one of the reasons Tolkien and Lewis remain relevant beyond just entertainment: .... Tolkien and Lewis made a literary pa...

Randy Newman: You can stand alone or with somebody else Or stand with all of us, together If you can believe in something bigger than...

I always enjoy reading Kevin Williamson and usually agree with him. From today's "The Antisemitism Grift," and once again, I ...

Kevin DeYoung on a worthy aspiration : We need heroes from the past, as well as inspiration for the present. And the knight has proved to be...

As Halloween approaches, it is useful for the more excitable among us to be reminded that the Evil One has already been defeated. From ...

I have always enjoyed good illustrators who capture the characters or circumstances described in good books well. My favorite has long been ...

In the mail yesterday arrived a 4K Blu-ray of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express (1974) from Kino Lorber. Watched it last n...

From Barton Swaim's review of Charles Murray’s Taking Religion Seriously : .... A Christian friend, asked by Mr. Murray how he had come...

In "There Are No Silver Bullets for Illiteracy" the author explains what some states are doing right about teaching literacy. A c...

From Robert Louis Stevenson in "Talk and Talkers" : .... There is a certain attitude, combative at once and deferential, eager to ...

Reposted because I love it: Tell me, where is the road I can call my own That I left, that I lost So long ago? All these y...