One Eternal Day

The Commonwealth nations have agreed to change the rules for succession to the British throne. No longer will the throne pass to the elde...

Ralph Vaughan Williams is my favorite among 20th century composers. While looking for something else, I came across this YouTube presentati...

Via The Cinch Review

I've been re-watching the BBC productions of the Hercule Poriot stories starring David Suchet in the title role. Today I came to ...

The Internet Monk re-posts a "Halloween Rant" by the late Michael Spencer. I didn't grow up in a fundamentalist church like ...

Reflections on a recent film elicit from Joseph Susanka these observations: We often find ourselves thinking of justice and mercy as two s...

Halloween has for years now been a major event where I live — but not in the way I remember it was when I was a kid. Then there was trick...

"In Which I Read Vintage Novels" continues "Vintage Movie Week" with a review of one of my favorite Hitchcock films ...

G.K. Chesterton: The first use of good literature is that it prevents a man from being merely modern. To be merely modern is to condemn o...

From a reflection on William Cowper's great hymn "Sometimes a Light Surprises" I've excerpted this portion about the fin...

A New York Times article reports that the state of Rhode Island is in dire financial shape, cutting back on spending, and in danger of re...

"The Frugal Traveler" who blogs at The New York Times spent a few days in my city recently and rather enjoyed himself. From ...

Why are so many modern buildings ugly and inappropriate for their surroundings? I'm no architect but the explanation offered by Michael...

Denny Burk found this lecture by Peter Williams, "The Gospels as Eyewitness Accounts," "absolutely riveting": Peter Wi...

From a great essay by Stephen Marche in the NY Times yesterday: .... First they came for the Kennedy scholars, and I did not speak ou...

On the occasion of his eightieth birthday Christianity Today reprints a 1990 interview with Thomas C. Oden, United Methodist theologian,...

Suzannah, who reads "vintage novels" and recommends good ones at her site , is beginning a week of recommending vintage movies. H...

Kathleen Arnn compares the original Boy Scout Handbook to the current one in "Scouts' Honor." Today's isn't bad but ...

Joe Carter was annoyed by an op-ed that appeared in the New York Times yesterday: Evangelicals who take an interest in the life of the mi...

Via Justin Taylor , Peter Kreeft on the book and the movie The Voyage of the Dawn Treader . Kreeft gave the movie B+ but thought it left out...