One Eternal Day

English vicars have noticed increasing numbers of young people in their congregations. The Church of England commissioned a report to discov...

Ben Domenech, in "She Loved God, Booze, And Cigarettes — And She Thought...," notes that today is the birthday of Dorothy L. Saye...

I only possess a few of Chesterton's thirty-some books: Heretics and Orthodoxy, of course, his Autobiography , a collection of Father ...

Seen on Twitter a while back: Daniel could, of course, have searched for and easily found a definition online. This is the passage from G...

From  "The Seven Most Popular G.K. Chesterton Quotes He Never Said" : “Fairy tales are more than true — not because they tell ...

I have reached what I once would have considered an advanced age. From Patrick Kurp's "The Ice Growing Thinner Below Our Feet"...

I am a believer in "honest ecumenism," that is, ecumenism that does not ignore or minimize the real doctrinal differences that do ...

I've posted before about an excellent source of free E-books: Standard Ebooks is a volunteer-driven project that produces new editions ...

I've been a frequent visitor to a website called Mere Orthodoxy for some time. Mere Orthodoxy is also a magazine. I subscribed recentl...

Dirda again, this from a 2012 essay titled "Armchair Adventures" : Why is it that I so seldom want to read what everyone else want...

Making an argument that G.K. Chesterton, C.S. Lewis, and J.R.R. Tolkien have also made: .... Fairy tales are beloved by children partly beca...

Reading an opinion column, I was pleased to find a summation of G.K. Chesterton's views about tradition: In his spiritual autobiography,...

I posted about  Standard Ebooks  on Facebook recently. I am really enjoying the site. It describes itself this way: Standard Ebooks is a vol...

G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy , Chapter 5 : Of all horrible religions the most horrible is the worship of the god within. Anyone who knows anyb...

The Wade Center is on the campus of Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois. Its purpose: "We emphasize the ongoing relevance of seven B...

Re-posted and slightly updated : I am a native of West Virginia and although I didn't live there for more than a few months after I was...

Paul Kingsnorth describes a journey: "After years of atheism, I went searching for the truth. I found Buddhism, then witchcraft, and ev...

I've posted about the Detection Club before . Yesterday I came across " Rules for Murder: The Detection Club and the Evolution of t...

G.K. Chesterton: We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbour. Hence he comes to us clad in all the carel...

I think it was one of my high school English teachers who suggested that I might enjoy John Buchan's thrillers. I'm sure the first I...