One Eternal Day

From "Everything sad coming untrue" : “Gandalf! I thought you were dead! But then I thought I was dead myself. Is everything sad...

Rod Dreher reviews Confession , a film he convinces me I should see. Dreher calls it "a masterpiece": How does a man follow Alexan...

Tomorrow, November 11, was originally known as Armistice Day. Combat in World War I formally ended at 11:00 am on the morning of the elevent...

I seldom post here about partisan politics and have been somewhat reluctant to post about our recent election. But I will. I am politically ...

A while back I found this passage from a letter Samuel Johnson wrote upon discovering a childhood friend had died: I hope we may long contin...

November 5 th is celebrated in the UK as Guy Fawkes Day, the anniversary of a foiled attempt by Catholic plotters in 1605 to blow up King J...

I grew up in the period described here as "the golden age of the LP." My parents were on the faculty of a liberal arts college wit...

"We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. For ...

Today, October 31, is the anniversary of that day in 1517 when Luther nailed his 95 theses to the church door, now observed in many Protesta...

The King Under the Mountain: In Search of J. R. R. Tolkien "is not a biography of Tolkien.... It is, rather, 'a series of fan’s no...

Tomorrow, October 31 st , is Reformation Day, and the day following is All Saints' Day. Reformation Day is the anniversary of the day Ma...

As an annual reminder I re-post excerpts from "Concerning Halloween" by James B. Jordan: .... "Halloween" is simply ...

Reposted: Ben Dueholm, a Lutheran pastor, and a friend, attended a conference for Christian writers. One of those he heard speak was a tele...

Re-posted because of the current controversy about The Magician's Nephew film for Netflix. Should the Narnia books be read in the or...

I am enjoying a series of sunny days with highs in the upper 60s and low 70s. It seems to me to qualify as an "Indian Summer," so ...

Some reports indicate that Netflix's termination of a lot of employees has been at least partly due to reactions to their version of The...

C.S. Lewis in Surprised by Joy   wrote about "an unsatisfied desire which is itself more desirable than any other satisfaction." ...

Last week I spent a few days with my brother. When that happens we usually spend hours sorting through at least one of the bins of letters, ...

Samuel Johnson on genuine friendship : That friendship may be at once fond and lasting, there must not only be equal virtue on each part, bu...

CS Lewis at the RAF Chaplains’ School in Oxford in 1944  Bruce R Johnson in The Telegraph explains  "Why the Second World War was the ...