One Eternal Day

There will be light or no blogging for a while as I am preoccupied with other concerns. When I return I may explain. In the meantime, over...

John J. Miller asked his online readers to help find information about a court case argued by Abraham Lincoln in 1854. They came through . F...

Perhaps particularly annoyed by Hawking's declaration early in his new book that "'philosophy is dead' because it 'has ...

Joe Carter, writing about a recent rather discouraging poll, concludes "Americans are Religiously Illiterate" : Did you know that...

Keeping it in the proper perspective. Nancy Guthrie : .... What prompts me to write is a statement Beck made on August 30 in an appearance o...

From Conjubilant With Song: Safely Reach My Home : .... A simple, four stanza text by Isaac Watts, first published in 1707, which a...

As someone who is himself rather shy, and as a member of a very small congregation where any visitor will inevitably feel self-conscious, I ...

Peter Berger, thinking about his experiences with the Amish, explains "How to Keep a Closed Community Closed," with relevance to...

The key to reading well is to read a lot. But the fact is that boys in particular are reading less and less. In "How to Raise Boys Tha...

City of Man: Religion and Politics in a New Era , by Michael Gerson and Peter Wehner, is about to be published. Knowing that it is the fir...

For me election night is like the Super Bowl and the election season leading up to it  interests me the way the NFL interests others. Politi...

On this day in 1937 J.R.R Tolkien’s The Hobbit was published. The "new Hobbit," The Lord of the Rings , didn't see publicati...

Fred Sanders describes himself as "a deeply satisfied free church evangelical Protestant" and wasn't particularly interested i...

James E. Person Jr. appreciates "Father Brown at 100" in the current issue of National Review : .... This rumpled, clumsy de...

Benedict XVI in the United Kingdom, on our witness as Christians in the world as taught by John Henry Newman. In this there is no differen...

Via Cranach , a useful clarification of a myth often repeated: Luther did not use bar songs but rather his own creations and the musical ...

The Chronicles of Prydain weren't available when I was a child, but I read them as a young adult and thoroughly enjoyed them. John J. M...

David P. Murray reviews two books about the Ten Commandments , both of which he highly recommends. One is by the president of Wheaton Colleg...

I don't usually approve of burning books, or flags, or any other symbols of deeply held, fundamental beliefs, although it has become bas...

Bob Spencer, dissatisfied with the church he had been part of, has been looking for something more satisfying and trying out some of those i...