One Eternal Day

Andrew Ferguson on an awful person: .... Quinn is proof of the observation attributed to G.K. Chesterton: When a person ceases to belie...

John Mark Reynolds: on All Hallows' .... When Halloween arrives, I am happy. Thanksgiving, the best of secular holidays, and Chris...

Via RedState , Bach Cantata BWV 180, "Adorn yourself, O dear soul, leave the dark pit of sin...." The text.

I taught high school history and social studies classes for thirty-five years. For almost all of those years I taught required 9 th grade U...

Our Reformation Day/All Saints' Day worship service this morning seems to have been well received. I noted to all present that many of ...

Our worship tomorrow, albeit a few days early, will focus on both Reformation Day and All Saints' Day.  This Reformation Day...

The newsletter of the Seventh Day Baptist Council on History arrived today announcing soon to be available online resources: In his O...

Rod Dreher recommends a new book from which he excerpts: Realism means being in touch with the real world, with real things. Often I ...

Lenore Skenazy, who got in trouble for letting her "nine-year-old take the subway alone," contends that "If you don’t let ch...

On the anniversary of an extremely foolish event during the Battle of Balaclava, October 25, 1854, during the Crimean War. ...

I posted once before about the book that introduced me to a favorite fictional character: During summer visits to grandparents in West...

Camille Paglia on the devolution of American public education: It’s really started at the level of public school education. I’ve been t...

Philip Jenkins writes that he "recently discovered a new word that will be really useful for me in writing about Christian history....

From a fine essay in The New Criterion about Solzhenitsyn’s work: .... In one memorable scene, Solzhenitsyn describes how a believing ...

From "Is It Really God Speaking to You?" : “I’ve prayed about this and I really feel like God told me that it would be okay....

From a review of a new collection of Antonin Scalia's speeches: .... Readers will learn about a formative event that occurred as Sca...

On the 100 th anniversary of the first Communist revolution, ignorance of some of the greatest evils of modern times: .... Half of young p...

Reading some more from Michael Dirda's essays for The American Scholar , I came across an account of his visit to a second-hand booksto...

Michael Dirda has reviewed books for The Washington Post , The American Scholar , The New York Review of Books , and many others. He likes b...