One Eternal Day

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

Robert Hasler is a Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) pastor participating in a forum considering the future of his denomination and, more...

In an interesting essay reviewing a book about the role of "religion" in government, a few paragraphs explaining the original und...

Re-posted: Philip Jenkins on why we are certain March 1 was the day the patron saint of Wales died and why "death days" were s...

From Augustine, "Exposition on Psalm 148": The subject of our meditation in this present life should be the praises of God; for th...

I grew up attending worship in a sanctuary built during the Great Depression . It replaced a building that burned down one Sabbath morning i...

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...

Kevin DeYoung on a worthy aspiration : We need heroes from the past, as well as inspiration for the present. And the knight has proved to be...

As Halloween approaches, it is useful for the more excitable among us to be reminded that the Evil One has already been defeated. From ...

From "Athanasius against the world." Well worth reading (but it may be behind a paywall): Seventeen hundred years ago, in a.d. 3...

I find it annoying when local churches indulge in cute "branding." The first time I recall feeling that way was when a church that...

I haven't posted much here recently because I simply haven't come across things that interested me enough to go to the trouble. But ...

I've never read Boethius (but I have read T.S. Eliot ). Thomas Ward has read Boethius, and Rick Kennedy reviews his book in "The W...

From a review of Thomas More: A Life Over the last century, Thomas More has undergone three posthumous transmutations. In 1935 – exactly 40...

Meir Soloveichik on "America and the Exodus" : .... Ben Franklin made this proposal for a seal for the United States: “Moses stand...

In about 1970, a friend, then in the Army, an English major and later an English professor, sent me a letter that contained this on the gos...

Jake Meador, in an email to subscribers of  Mere Orthodoxy : .... It is not a question of knowing what is right. It is a question, rather, ...

Ralph Vaughan Williams, "Herefordshire Carol": This is the truth sent from above, The truth of God, the God of love; Th...

I put out my Christmas wreath this weekend. I've known Christians who choose not to celebrate Christmas. Kevin DeYoung explains why at l...

An ancient heresy returns again in support of political bigotry. From The Free Press : .... Like a boil on the backside of the body politic,...