One Eternal Day

Thomas Nagle, philosopher, atheist, socialist, has unforgivably doubted the probability that neo-Darwinian materialism can explain everythi...

Michael Dirda likes C.S. Lewis: A Life , by Alister McGrath  (and so do I): ...[H]e bases his new life on a recently completed multivolu...

Re-posted from 2008 : Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep; And if I should die before I wake, I pray Thee Lo...

How should evangelical Protestants feel about the new pope? I found these relevant comments in the last couple of days. The first is from a...

Frank L. Packard was an early 20th century writer of thrillers. I discovered several of his Jimmie Dale books on the shelves of an uncle w...

Kevin DeYoung on what revival looks like: The year is roughly 640 B.C. Judah is in bad shape. After some good years with King Hezekiah,...

David Masciotra asks "Where's the Faith in Fiction?" and answers: .... The case for faith in fiction is to be made by thos...

Suzannah recommends that you read Orthodoxy by GK Chesterton .... “If you’re studying apologetics,” I said, “you should really read Ort...

When we pray "We have offended against Thy holy laws. We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; And we have done th...

N.T. Wright is annoyed by journalistic accusations of Christian hypocricy. What exactly are the alternatives to failing to live up to high ...

From Anthony Sacramone, "This Is You, on the Wrong Side of History" : .... Empire builders and revolutionaries, reformers and ...

From an interesting review by Tom Gilson of The Bible Among the Myths (2009) by John Oswalt: Somehow we've been led to believe tha...

Michael Rosen, reviewing Science Left Behind , notes that there are a lot of "anti-science" folks out there other than the usual ...

Jonathan Ryan [who has no Rob Bell books in his library] has been asked to review Bell's new book. Ryan thinks other evangelicals get a...

Last Friday I watched A Man for All Seasons with a friend who had never seen it. On Facebook he reminds me of one of my favorite pieces o...

Suzannah, at her great site, reviews a P.G. Wodehouse book she hadn't read before (neither have I) about her favorite Wodehouse charac...

Thomas Kidd favorably reviews Alister McGrath's C.S. Lewis - A Life : Alister McGrath's C.S. Lewis: A Life comes with endors...

Sean Curnyn has just discovered one of the greatest of great hymns: .... It is a song from Wales. The lyric is by a great 18th century ...

Alister McGrath, who has just published C.S. Lewis - A Life: Eccentric Genius, Reluctant Prophet  (which I have just begun reading), lists a...

I am a native of West Virginia and although I didn't live there for more than a few months after I was born I did return every summer wh...