One Eternal Day

When Tolkien's memorial is placed in the Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey next year, it will be near that of C.S. Lewis. "[H]...

Those of us who value The Narnia Chronicles have already read enough to be dubious about Netflix's upcoming 2027 version of The Magicia...

Patrick Kurp quoted a portion of a  Samuel Johnson essay on his blog this morning. He linked to it , and I followed the link. Johnson himse...

I've been reading and enjoying The Narnia Chronicles for a very long time. They are great children's books and, like all good child...

Several countries, among them Belgium, the Netherlands, Canada, and now also some of the more "progressive" American states, have ...

As I followed links looking for something I eventually didn't find, I happened upon "Why I Am a Baptist" by Albert Mohler . Mo...

When "omnipotent moral busybodies" control power: Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may ...

I'm old enough to remember November 22, 1963. September 11, 2001 was equally horrible, and a lot more people died. I read that 40% of th...

On Labor Day, I return to Gene Edward Veith's post about "vocation" (the link to his blog post no longer works): .... The wo...

Last night a friend and I re-watched A Man for All Seasons  (1966). It's a great film with important lessons, whether or not its portray...

Many of us who have long identified as evangelicals now avoid the label because it has become understood as a political, i.e., Trumpian, rat...

Some years ago I bought and read T. Harry Williams' biography, Huey Long (1969). It's a long, thorough, and very readable book abou...

Anyone who has visited my apartment would suspect that I am something of an Anglophile. They would be right. On the walls, they would find p...

From "Feeling Good Is Not the Point of Worship" : When does worship become more about the worshipers than the one being worshiped?...

Carlos Carvalho is President of the University of Austin , a very young institution admitting its first class in 2024. It is tuition-free, ...

I am making slow but regular progress through The Chronicles of Narnia and have just begun reading The Voyage of the Dawn Treader . Eustace ...

Challies , quoting from Brett McCracken's The Wisdom of Sleep : As we lie down to sleep, we give our mental anxieties and physical exhau...

From several years ago, excerpts from "Is It Time to Quit ‘Quiet Time’?" (likely behind a paywall). The problem isn't actuall...

I've been going through a filing cabinet and being reminded of things I haven't thought about for some time. In 1993, I served as Pr...

Yesterday I quoted from Paul Johnson's Modern Times . Johnson was an historian, a graduate of Oxford, a student of C.S. Lewis , and a C...