One Eternal Day

Not long ago a friend recommended Peter Brown's biography of Augustine of Hippo . Rather perversely, I tend to resist the recommendatio...

From Allen Guelzo's Gettysburg: The Last Invasion , in the evening, after the fighting had ended on the second terrible day of battle: ...

At the wonderfully named blog, The Anxious Bench , Philip Jenkins has been posting a fascinating series about the evolving content of the B...

I am reading Alan Jacobs' The "Book of Common Prayer": A Biography and have reached the point where Jacobs describes an unan...

Reviewing Sir John Eliot Gardiner's Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven , Daniel Johnson asks "Is Bach the Voice of God in Music?...

Russell Kirk's The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot was my introduction to Burkean conservatism and to political philosophy gene...

This morning Trevin Wax recommends Jack: A Life of C.S. Lewis , available as a Kindle edition for only $2.99. I've owned this biograp...

From an an interesting review of How on Earth Did Jesus Become a God? by Larry Hurtado. Did an understanding of Jesus' divinity evolv...

Aaron Earle believes that good children's books never lose their value: The books that you read as a child – those that touch you a...

Mollie Hemingway was dismayed when some of her neighbors objected to kids starting a lawn-mowing business because it would be unsafe. Her re...

Thus says the L ORD : “Stand by the roads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is; and walk in it, and find res...

I have not only profited by reading the work of Alan Jacobs , — from various essays to his biography of C.S. Lewis, The Narnian , and his h...

From Trevin Wax's interview of Michael Kelly , author of Boring : Trevin : Why do we need to be okay with a boring life? And why is...

Tomorrow marks the 150 th anniversary of the defeat of United Sates forces under Rosecrans at Chickamauga . A statue that stands on Madiso...

From a sermon by Bromleigh McCleneghan, reminding us why and by Whom we are valued: .... The Psalmist speaks to many of our hearts when...

When she was twelve Kathy Keller wrote several letters to C.S. Lewis and he answered them (he answered all correspondence!). This site qu...

From Allen Guelzo's Gettysburg: The Last Invasion : ...[T]hese were men who could forget almost at once that they were soldiers an...

G.K. Chesterton, reflecting on his experience as a juror : .... The trend of our epoch up to this time has been consistently towards spe...

Peter Leithart, in "A Hermeneutics of the Open Ear," on how earlier Christians... ...were as saturated in Scripture as we are...

A journal kept by a twenty-one-year-old Flannery O'Connor will be published in November as A Prayer Journal . Betsy Childs at First Thi...