One Eternal Day

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

Sunday, January 25, 2026

"We hold these truths..."

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From Gordon S. Wood's "The Five Greatest Words in the Declaration" : In the Declaration of Independence , the 250 th annivers...
Saturday, January 24, 2026

Self-esteem

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A passing reference in a blog I read almost every day sent me looking for "Psychobabble that shields the seriously selfish," a 1...
Friday, January 23, 2026

A ripping good yarn

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From a review of Storyteller: The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson : Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–94) belongs at the head of a select company...
Wednesday, January 21, 2026

Josephus and Jesus

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I've been reading history for a very long time. I love this sort of thing. On an ancient Jewish historian and what he may have written a...
Monday, January 19, 2026

Transported

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I can remember being so engrossed in a book that I was unaware of my surroundings or of the passage of time. A book can transport you somewh...
Sunday, January 18, 2026

Blessed are the dead...

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When my father died, I asked the pastor to use scriptures that remind us of the hope we have. They are scriptures used for the funeral of a ...
Saturday, January 17, 2026

Finally and ultimately

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Re-posted. Modern Heresies is a book I found in the Milton College Library. I was an undergraduate, and my work-study job was shelving boo...
Friday, January 16, 2026

A day of civic obligation

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Once again, I find myself agreeing with this liberal former mayor of the city where I live. In "Let’s vote in person on Election Day,...
Wednesday, January 14, 2026

Rear Window

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Hitchcock is the director whose films I rewatch most often. I enjoy some of the early British movies, especially The Thirty-Nine Steps and ...
Monday, January 12, 2026

My alma mater

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Main Hall I graduated from Milton College, the college my father and grandfather attended. Milton was one of the oldest institutions of ...
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Sunday, January 11, 2026

Ayn Rand on C.S. Lewis

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Today I reviewed the posts on this site that I had tagged "Ayn Rand." Among them, I found  "Ayn Rand Really, Really Hated C....
Saturday, January 10, 2026

C.S. Lewis and T.S. Eliot

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At Prufrock this morning, there was a link to an article about the eventual friendship between T.S. Eliot and C.S. Lewis. Lewis detested El...
Tuesday, January 6, 2026

Civilized

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The mother of a very young son wants to raise him as a "civilized" human being : Unfortunately, “civilized” has become a dirty wor...

Magi

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"The star, which they saw in the east, went before them..." The term Epiphany is taken from the Greek word for “manifestation” a...
Saturday, January 3, 2026

New, free, eBooks

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Standard eBooks celebrates "Public Domain Day 2026" by making twenty books published in 1930 available free as eBooks. Among them...
Thursday, January 1, 2026

A prayer for the New Year

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It was Samuel Johnson's practice to mark each New Year by composing a personal prayer. This is the one for 1772: ALMIGHTY GOD , who h...
Wednesday, December 31, 2025

Political tribalism

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Patrick Kurp, quoting Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), just as sadly relevant today as in 1717: Men’s very natures are soured, and their passion...

A New Year hymn

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Found at  Conjubilant With Song : O God, whom neither time nor space Can limit, hold, or bind. Look down from heav'n, Thy dwelling pl...
Tuesday, December 30, 2025

Good health to you!

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Wassail, wassail, to our town, The cup is white, the ale is brown; The cup is made of the ashen tree, And so i...
Monday, December 29, 2025

The indispensable virtue

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Re-posted from a few years ago.  From "Quiet Hope: A New Year’s Resolution." : .... What Leon Kass calls the “higher cynicism” h...
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