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...

I was recently reminded of Ben Patterson's Waiting: Finding Hope When God Seems Silent , a book that has been important to my understand...

In "Confessing Sin, Then and Now," an Anglican pastor dislikes some modern liturgical innovations. I think he's right. The ...

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...

Former Senator Ben Sasse is dying of cancer. Today at Mere Orthodox y, I found this quotation from an interview . Ben Sasse: ...[A] lot is b...

Robert Duvall has died.  He was a great actor and was in several of my favorite films. Some years ago, at the beginning of Lent, John Nolte ...

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 ...

Frederick Buechner: AFTER CENTURIES OF handling and mishandling, most religious words have become so shopworn nobody's much interested a...

Last weekend, I attended a memorial service for a Christian believer who was a pastor and a friend. I came across this today: from the The 1...

Robinson Crusoe is, of course, a classic work of fiction. Few, I suspect, think of it as a work of Christian fiction. The illustration is b...

From the final chapter of John R.W. Stott's Basic Christianity , "Being a Christian": We saw earlier that our sins had alienat...

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

An appreciation of Christianity is not enough. To be saved requires faith. From The Telegraph on "cultural Christianity": Being a...

A good Lenten hymn. The last two verses here were unfamiliar to me, but I like them. What wondrous love is this, O my soul, O my soul! What...

Samuel Johnson on New Year's Eve, 1749/50: ALMIGHTY GOD , by whose will I was created, and by whose Providence I have been sustained, by...

Joni Eareckson Tada reflecting on the hymn "When We All Get to Heaven": .... Shining in brilliant beauty, with no more pain or sor...

Advent began this past weekend. Walter Russell Mead reflected on the meaning of Advent in "The Coming" : .... If there is no...

From "And They Began to Be Merry" by Kevin Williamson: Jesus’ first miracle isn’t about transmutation of beverages—it is about so...

From a few years ago, a few thoughts about the significance of All Saints' Day: For over a thousand years, many Christians have celebrat...

October 31st is Reformation Day and the day following is All Saints' Day:  Reformation Day is the anniversary of Martin Luther's cha...