One Eternal Day

"O’er all those wide extended plains / Shines one eternal day;
     "There God the Son forever reigns / And scatters night away."

Wednesday, October 29, 2025

"The Giant"

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I have always enjoyed good illustrators who capture the characters or circumstances described in good books well. My favorite has long been ...
Sunday, October 26, 2025

Poirot and twelve suspects

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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...
Saturday, October 18, 2025

From agnosticism to belief

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From Barton Swaim's review of Charles Murray’s Taking Religion Seriously : .... A Christian friend, asked by Mr. Murray how he had come...
Thursday, October 16, 2025

It isn't just phonics

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In "There Are No Silver Bullets for Illiteracy" the author explains what some states are doing right about teaching literacy. A c...
Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Amicable adversaries

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From Robert Louis Stevenson in "Talk and Talkers" : .... There is a certain attitude, combative at once and deferential, eager to ...
Tuesday, October 14, 2025

Where you belong

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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...
Sunday, October 12, 2025

"Chesterton's fence"

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Seen on Twitter a while back: Daniel could, of course, have searched for and easily found a definition online. This is the passage from G...
Saturday, October 11, 2025

"Begotten, not made, consubstantial with the Father.”

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From "Athanasius against the world." Well worth reading (but it may be behind a paywall): Seventeen hundred years ago, in a.d. 3...
Friday, October 10, 2025

The hope of a Christian

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Last weekend, I attended a memorial service for a Christian believer who was a pastor and a friend. I came across this today: from the The 1...
Wednesday, October 1, 2025

Deliverance

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Robinson Crusoe is, of course, a classic work of fiction. Few, I suspect, think of it as a work of Christian fiction. The illustration is b...
Sunday, September 28, 2025

The intrinsic value of a human being

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A humane society requires an understanding that precedes politics : .... Classics in the history of Western thought place a strong emphasis ...
Saturday, September 27, 2025

Sons of the Father

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From the final chapter of John R.W. Stott's Basic Christianity , "Being a Christian": We saw earlier that our sins had alienat...
Thursday, September 25, 2025

Identifying the enemy

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"How do we fight nothing?" Nihilism’s root is nihil , Latin for “nothing.” No meaning. Empty; soulless. What we see is all there i...
Tuesday, September 23, 2025

Where I live

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I've lived on Madison's isthmus since 1982. I had been "surplused" from LaFollette High School because I was the junior me...
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Sunday, September 21, 2025

Autumn

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Beginning in 1907 and annually from the 1930s to the '90s, the Sunday Chicago Tribune would publish these on the front page at some poi...
Wednesday, September 17, 2025

"Further up and further in"

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I've been reading C.S. Lewis and books and articles about him for a very long time, but I knew little about what Jews think about him. I...
Monday, September 15, 2025

Ugly thoughts

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This seems correct. When I first engaged in social media, I was often guilty of making instant comment that I regretted almost immediately (...
Sunday, September 14, 2025

The Bird and Baby

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The world's richest man has purchased the Oxford pub where the Inklings once met. From The Telegraph : The most unlikely part of Ellison...
Saturday, September 13, 2025

"But"

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Jonah Goldberg : ...[Y]ou often hear a lot of “buts” after an event like this. When Brian Thompson, the UnitedHealthcare CEO, was murdered, ...
Friday, September 12, 2025

Politics

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George Will : Today, on both sides of the barricades, politics is practiced with a snarl. It makes people cranky, permeates everything, and ...
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