One Eternal Day

I've been listening to Dylan's new CD, Tempest , and liking it a lot. The reviewer at Christianity Today liked it, too . Today I...

Free today from Amazon as a Kindle book, Primal Credo by Derek Vreeland, a member of a tradition that does not regularly recite the Creed...

David Foster at Chicago Boyz was reminded of a quotation from Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) relevant to this regarding 9/11: I guess ...

During summer visits to grandparents in West Virginia, we often stayed with an uncle and aunt. The aunt, Aunt Mabel, was a reader and had...

Brian Croft has completed nine years as senior pastor in his church and has been reflecting on what he has learned in that time. One of his ...

My favorite hymn paraphrase of the 23rd Psalm: Isaac Watts' "My Shepherd Will Supply My Need." My shepherd will supply my ne...

If ye love Me, keep My commandments, And I will pray the Father, And He shall give you another Comforter, That He may 'bide with ...

In "Who Killed the Liberal Arts?" Joseph Epstein describes his own experience at the University of Chicago, how he came to value...

All six seasons of Foyle's War are available streamed from Netflix . Lars Walker has finally seen them and, with a few minor quibbles, h...

A blogger at Shadow To Light notices some ambiguity about the meaning of "atheist": It’s getting more and more difficult to di...

Matthew Schmitz offers his selection of "Fifty Essential Religious Songs" and asks "readers, what songs did I miss?" ...

Cardinal Dolan offers the benediction at the end of the final session of the Democratic convention: With a “firm reliance on the protect...

Waiting for me upon my return from a pleasant several day excursion was my copy of The Wonder Book of Fairy Tales , a facsimile of a 1917 c...

Walter Russell Mead offers seven observations with advice for those about to begin higher education. They all make sense to me. Three of hi...

My Great-Aunt Harriet had television some years before my parents gave in and bought one. I used to go over to her place and watch — she wa...

G.K. Chesterton explains how we "shut out the real world" by associating only with people like us: The man who lives in a smal...

From Power Line : Winding into a holiday weekend, it can’t be wrong to remember that Van Morrison — singer, songwriter and artist — celebrat...

Rod Dreher passes along some thoughts about "The Politics Of Frodo Baggins" : .... It is much easier to change the world arou...

Philip Jenkins expresses his annoyance at repeated journalistic ignorance about the formation of the new Testament canon: .... As I disc...

Scientific knowledge is extremely important and the discoveries of science have contributed immeasurably to our prosperity and physical wel...