One Eternal Day

From Patrick Kurp's "I Myself Perhaps May Proceed Also" on William Cowper: Here is Cowper on May 3, 1780, writing to his frie...

Though the fig tree should not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines, The produce of the olive fail and the fields yield no food, the flock be...

A fairly long post quoting from a substantially longer, and worthwhile,  article: Dana Gioia on "Christianity and Poetry" : It is...

William Cowper, who often suffered depression, wrote Sometimes a Light Surprises in 1779: Sometimes a light surprises the Christian whil...

From Hymns by William Cowper, 1779: 29. Exhortation to Prayer. What various hindrances we meet In coming to a mercy seat! Yet who...

The performance omits the fifth verse God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants His footsteps in the sea...

An important reminder in contentious times: William Cowper, who often suffered depression, wrote Sometimes a Light Surprises in 1779: ...

Barton Swaim in the Wall Street Journal : .... Almost the only people who still sing together are the religious. The Christian traditi...

From Anecdotal Evidence this morning: It takes a singular individual, one who is unfashionably non-aligned, to acknowledge his dependen...

Today Jonathan Aigner offers "9 Hymns for Those Struggling with Anxiety and Depression." He writes: I’m not going to tell you...

Via Anecdotal Evidence , a letter from William Cowper to John Newton on this date in 1781: Discoverers of truth are generally sober, mod...

William Cowper, who often suffered depression, wrote Sometimes a Light Surprises in 1779: Sometimes a light surprises the Christian whil...

The performance above omits the fifth verse below. God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants His footste...

From a newly discovered letter from William Wilberforce to a 14 year old girl : .... A Traveller on an open Common in such a Storm of Ha...

Patrick Kurp who blogs at Anecdotal Evidence suggests, with John Betjeman, that some things are best read in a particular environment: ...

This morning I am leading a worship service comprised entirely of scriptures and hymns chosen for their relevance to the theme "We wor...

Kevin White at Mere Orthodoxy on William Cowper's God Moves in a Mysterious Way , one of the finest hymn lyrics: Cowper .... Wil...

The words of several of my favorite hymns were by William Cowper. Barton Swaim thinks it regrettable that Cowper isn't taken more seri...

Re-posted Kathryn Greene-McCreight, who suffers from depression, in Christianity Today , "Light When All is Dark": Lord Jesu...

From Hymns by William Cowper, 1779: 29. Exhortation to Prayer. What various hindrances we meet In coming to a mercy seat! Yet who...