One Eternal Day

Hunter Baker explains "The Secret of Appreciating Church" , and it isn't discovering the most entertaining venue, or the most ...

G.K. Chesterton: "There is a very real sense in which the Christian is worse than the heathen, the Spaniard worse than the Red Indian,...

The lilacs are in bloom in Madison. Inevitably I am reminded of the poem part of which we memorized in grade school: Walt Whitman's ...

The return of one of my favorite television series is celebrated by S.T. Karnick . Foyle's War is a perfect example of an historically ...

Melanie Phillips, writing in the UK's Standpoint , finds that the causes animating the Left demonstrate many of the less attractive char...

Theodore Dalrymple : .... Does silence really have no moral qualities, no intellectual advantages, no significance for the deepening of cha...

At Christianity Today , John Ortberg suggests five books about faith and doubt. One of them I read quite some time ago. This is what he says...

From Eric Metaxa's biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, this in a letter to his brother-in-law: If it is I who determine where God is to ...

Justin Taylor posts a recent "tweet": If Jesus answered all your prayers from the last 30 days, would anything change in THE Wor...

I just received my copy of The Loser Letters , and have read the first several chapters. I'm liking it. P.J. O'Rourke's blurb ma...

I have acquired a new edition of the 1559 Book of Common Prayer , my earlier copy having been damaged. It is identified as "The Elizabe...

I spent an enjoyable ninety minutes last evening watching a newly acquired DVD from Warner Archive, Above Suspicion [1943] based, fairly f...

In the world of my parents, and still in the society in which I grew up, reticence was a virtue. Recently, more than once, I have found it n...

Paul Mirengoff liked The Loser Letters . I think I might, too. Mirengoff: The Loser Letters consists of letters written by A.F. (A Former...

I am not a fan of South Park precisely because it is so offensive. I would prefer a society with a certain reluctance about giving offense ...

From the 1559, or Elizabethan, Book of Common Prayer : ALMIGHTY God, which showeth to all men that be in error the light of Thy truth, to...

From Basic Christianity by John R.W. Stott: Are you a Christian? A real and committed Christian? Your answer depends on another question - ...

St. Augustine wrote “Love God and do as you please” because as you grow in love for God what pleases Him will become what pleases you. A po...

Joseph Loconte reviewed a new biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy , in yesterday's Wall Street J...

Experimenting with a new camera. This is the Wisconsin capitol building on a beautiful spring day.