One Eternal Day

Take him, earth, for cherishing, to thy tender breast receive him. Body of a man I bring thee, noble even in its ruin. Not th...

My General Conference theme was "A Firm Foundation." I once had a poster quoting T.S. Eliot, somewhat out of context, about ...

Alan Jacobs has decided to (paraphrasing) stay off Twitter, cut back on the news sites in his RSS feed, and delete bookmarks to newspapers...

And more yet from Dorothy L. Sayers: Moreover, whether we are dealing with simile or metaphor, it has to be remembered that every imag...

More from Sayers: This tension between joy and the opposite of joy is, once again, something that is viewed with a certain distrust by a...

Dorothy L. Sayers: ...there seems to be a kind of conspiracy, especially among middle-aged writers of vaguely liberal tendency, to forge...

The first Inaugural prayer was offered for FDR. This is from 1937. It was delivered by ZeBarney Phillips who was an Episcopal clergyman and...

I discover that today is National Winnie-the-Pooh Day. It is the anniversary of the birth of A.A. Milne in 1882. Milne, of course, is the a...

Betty Smartt Carter has been reading the memoirs of a Victorian lady: .... By the time Hughes completed her writings, her parents and...

Entirely by coincidence — or at least unplanned by us — both the final hymn I chose for the worship service this past Sabbath (“ Rejoice, Re...

If you know much about C.S. Lewis you know that one of his favorite authors was George MacDonald , the author of Phantastes and At the Bac...

Whittaker Chambers : Yet there is one experience which most sincere ex-Communists share, whether or not they go only part way to the e...

From Edwin Yoder's review of a new book about the history of Bible translations: .... In what C. S. Lewis called "the liturgical ...

From "What America’s Founders Really Thought About the Bible" : Benjamin Rush .... The renewal in 1805 of a 30-year friend...

Theodore Dalrymple, who is not, I believe, himself religious, comments on a recognizable inclination : .... The reason (I surmise) that ...

From "A Chat with Mark Lilla" : HUMANITIES: The reactionary belief that something beautiful has been lost to us can be as comp...

Matthew Walther celebrates "A.A. Milne's Beloved Bear at His 90th Anniversary" : .... I am on record somewhere saying th...

A class at the very Evangelical Wheaton College considers what Catholicism teaches about Mary : ...[T]he Virgin of Wheaton that slowly...

I've posted this or a variation of it several times before on New Year's Eves: Should auld acquaintance be forgot, and never b...