One Eternal Day

The Time website recently published a list of 100 female writers most read on college campuses. Number 97 on the list was Evelyn Waugh. Fr...

From Thomas Cranmer's Great Litany : We sinners do beseech Thee to hear us, O Lord God; and that it may please Thee to rule and gove...

Among the luckiest children are those whose parents read to them. I have collected a few books that suggest good choices although, having...

I have discovered that the full text of C.S. Lewis's The Abolition of Man can be found online (also here as a pdf and for Kindle )....

Continuing with reflections on Christian funerals occasioned by the funeral of Antonin Scalia, Carl Trueman : .... The straightforward s...

In "Covering the funeral of Antonin Scalia, while ignoring what the Mass was really about," Terry Mattingly notices that most of...

A few days ago, on Facebook, I quoted from this letter Justice Scalia wrote to a pastor after attending the funeral of retired Justice Lew...

I have posted several times recently about parts of my library. I have accumulated a lot of books. In the last few years I've been givi...

The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

Diagnosed with a very serious cancer, the author of a book about a very popular but this-worldly theology considers "Death, the Prosp...

A website offers nine quotations from Antonin Scalia from among which: “God assumed from the beginning that the wise of the world would...

I enjoy historical fiction almost as much as I do mysteries and thrillers. Bernard Cornwell is one of the best authors for a good fast enjo...

One of those books that I found at just the right time in my life is Ben Patterson's Waiting: Finding Hope When God Seems Silent . The ...

I graduated from Milton College in 1968. Milton was one of the oldest colleges in Wisconsin, chartered in 1867 (Milton Academy dated back...

One of the hymns I discovered (i.e. it was new to me) was Firmly I Believe and Truly by Cardinal John Henry Newman. My best recollection...

For quite a few years now I have been one of the worship leaders for our small congregation, right now for a month every three months. That...

T.S. Eliot enjoyed Golden Age detective fiction and reviewed books in the genre for The Criterion . From The New Yorker where Paul Grimsta...

Via NRO, Paul Ryan at the National Prayer Breakfast : I have noticed a growing impatience with prayer in our culture. You see it in the pape...

Via Anecdotal Evidence , Joseph Epstein: One of the keenest pleasures of reading derives from being in the close company of someone more...

Another online discovery from the Library of Congress : The Æsop for Children, including: Æsop is important for cultural literacy. Amo...