One Eternal Day

From Patrick Kurp's "I Myself Perhaps May Proceed Also" on William Cowper: Here is Cowper on May 3, 1780, writing to his frie...

Patrick Kurp has come across an essay he saved, “What’s Wrong With the American Essay.”  First, a portion he quotes from it, and then some o...

Once upon a time, May Day had nothing to do with politics: We've been a-rambling all this night, And sometime of this day; And...

The New Criterion has published an excerpt from Theodore Dalrymple's soon-to-be-published book about Agatha Christie. I always enjoy re...

In the introduction to this essay , the editor notes that "Christian nationalists... [contend that] the antidote to declining religiosi...

Like many of my conservative friends who once felt comfortable in the GOP, I've felt homeless and alienated for the last decade. I endur...

This reminded me of the argument that optimists are often disappointed while pessimists may be happily surprised. From "Don't Worry...

I only possess a few of Chesterton's thirty-some books: Heretics and Orthodoxy, of course, his Autobiography , and The Man Who was Thu...

From "Malcolm Muggeridge’s Journey to Christian Belief" : Muggeridge was one of the top journalists of his time. A British newspap...

Alan Jacobs : In our church, during Lent we use the old language from the Book of Common Prayer , in which we confess ourselves to be “miser...

An Easter prayer: Brightness of God's glory and exact image of God's person, whom death could not conquer nor the tomb imprison, as ...

The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb by Hans Holbein the Younger Russell Moore: Good Friday is terrible, but it is also dramatic and full...

I taught in public high schools for almost forty years. I didn't have serious discipline problems in the classroom. When I introduced my...

From "The Philosophers and Churchmen Who Fell for Fascism." This is a lesson for any believer who comes to prioritize political c...

From "The World Needs to Recover True Lament. Christianity Can Teach It" In the psalms, lament is a structured form of prayer that...

I usually describe my theological position as "orthodox" rather than evangelical partly because of the political associations the ...

I often foolishly read comments that I know will annoy me. I almost always refrain from commenting myself. About online behavior : Like you,...

A recent article at Mere Orthodoxy describes the results of a "Pew Religious Landscape Survey" on American beliefs about evoluti...

This post from some time ago has recently reappeared in the "popular posts" section of this blog. I appreciate the reminder, espec...