One Eternal Day

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

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

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

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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,...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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