One Eternal Day

Hail Caesar!  (2016) was one of the less commercially successful Coen brothers films, perhaps because it demanded too much audience familiar...

Alan Jacobs follows the sport. I don't, but then I don't pay much attention to sports at all (apart from the Packers). The arrival o...

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...

From a 1971 W.H. Auden letter critical of liturgical reform : As for the Psalms, they are poems, and to 'get' poetry, it should,...

There are a couple of books I am eagerly anticipating, although publication dates are uncertain. One is Alan Jacobs' biography of Doroth...

W.H. Auden observed that many mystery fans "have no interest in other “genre” stories—romances, Westerns, science fiction, fantasy....

Alan Jacobs is writing a biography of Dorothy L. Sayers. Today he considers a distinction she makes between stories of crime and stories of...

Alan Jacobs discovered The Wind in the Willows as an adult. Me, too. Today, on his blog, he republishes an essay that originally appeared ...

Re-posted because I agree even more strongly today than I did then. From Alan Jacobs on "A Long Defeat, A Final Victory" : ......

I enjoyed reading Alan Jacobs'  "A Letter From Karl Barth." The letter was to Dorothy L. Sayers. On 7 September 1939, a week ...

Ayaan Hirsi Ali's account of her recent conversion to Christianity has been criticized by many non-believers but also by some Christian...

I really like Alan Jacobs and today I've found another reason . Because this describes me, too: Pretty much all my life I have been figh...

Alan Jacobs on book banning in America: danah boyd: “Over the last two years, I’ve been intentionally purchasing and reading books that are...

From Alan Jacobs today, an excerpt from one of his books that he has titled "my testimony": .... The sermon eluded my attention, ...

Alan Jacobs has deactivated his X (formerly Twitter) account for reasons I find persuasive . I just did too. Nick Catoggio writing at The Di...

Alan Jacobs is reading Augustine's The City of God , blogging as he reads . He has reached the end of Book XVIII, from which: ...[W]e ha...

Alan Jacobs responding to criticism by someone who thinks he doesn't know "what time it is": .... But I think I do know. It’s...

Responding to critics who find conservatism futile, Alan Jacobs : .... And can we really “no longer conserve”? To conserve is surely to inh...

Alan Jacobs, who reads a lot and seems to remember it all, quotes from an 1897 speech by William James . I was unfamiliar with the speech bu...

Alan Jacobs referred today to this interesting post by a Church of England vicar: The Book of Common Prayer is enjoying a revival in the C...