One Eternal Day

Every now and then the editors of First Things post about "What We've Been Reading." Mark Bauerlein's choice reminds me...

A good reminder of the importance of context: .... If we read Philippians 4:13 in isolation, apart from its context, it’s possible to s...

In "Grace, grace, and grace: how to battle Osteenism in our time" a non-Evangelical asserts truths we all need to remember: ....

Calvin and Hobbes, March 14, 1987: The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries when summer vacation arrived quartets of Seventh Day Baptist college students would travel from c...

A friend posted a link on Facebook to "Which Hymns Should We Forget About" : I get many comments accusing me of elevating, eve...

JRR Tolkien, WWI For James Holmes, the Professor of Strategy at the Naval War College, "the chief takeaway from Tolkien has always...

I've been enjoying Wolf Hall on PBS. It should not, however, be mistaken for history. Some writers of historical fiction go to consi...

From an essay by Dorothy L. Sayers titled "Why Work?" composed during World War II: I have already, on a previous occasion, spoke...

The Complete Calvin and Hobbes in paperback (four volumes, slipcased) is available from Amazon for $59.45. It is complete and the strips ...

Yuval Levin, in "The Church of the Left," argues that the First Amendment guarantee of religious liberty isn't so much the i...

Originally posted in 2009 : Trevin Wax, a Baptist, has been reporting on his attendance at a Catholic mass. Today, he reflects on what h...

At Mosaic Yuval Levin responds to Eric Cohen's attempt to articulate "a coherent Jewish conservatism for America and Israel....

From Michael Ward's "C.S. Lewis’s Wit": ...Lewis liked to relate the story of a hapless Bishop of Exeter who was giving pr...

From the editorial in the Wisconsin State Journal , April 17, 1865: “Whichever way it ends, I have the impression that I shan’t last l...

From The New York Times on April 11, 1865: .... "Glory to the Lord of Hosts, from whom all blessings are." If ever a people...

Yesterday Scott Johnson at Power Line noted the 150 th anniversary of Lee’s surrender to Grant at Appomattox and made a book recommendati...

The Sunday before last I posted "The face of Jesus?" about the Shroud of Turin. This past weekend National Review published an ...

The Guardian is dissatisfied with David Cameron's version of Christianity and, in the midst of its own partisan argument, makes an obs...

Stephen Rankin, University Chaplain at SMU, on "Christian" resurrection deniers : .... This time every year we get a slew of ma...