One Eternal Day

Re-posted because it is "very wicked indeed" to deprive the young of historical perspective. From the very end of Evelyn Waugh...

Via Anecdotal Evidence : MY days among the Dead are past; Around me I behold, Where'er these casual eyes are cast, The migh...

Washington's letter to the Hebrew Congregation in Newport, Rhode Island (1790): Gentlemen: While I receive with much satisfacti...

From R.C. Sproul's response when asked “What’s the big idea of the Christian life?”: I said, “The big idea of the Christian life is...

The necessary prerequisite for liberty is self-control: Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to p...

On the 11 th hour of the 11 th day of the 11 th month in 1918 an armistice took effect between the armed forces of the Allied Powers and...

The Times of London reports that another film iteration of The Lord of the Rings may come to cable: In 1969 JRR Tolkien sold the fi...

Dorothy L. Sayers: The Church's approach to an intelligent carpenter is usually confined to exhorting him not to be drunk and disord...

The music in the version above is Ralph Vaughan Williams's. The words both above and below were by Horatio Bonar (1808-1889). Tim Ch...

Via Anecdotal Evidence , Roger Scruton on Samuel Johnson: Johnson’s eccentric habits...made his defence of orthodoxy all the more impres...

Lars Walker has discovered a mystery author he believes he is going to like: Sally Wright .... I am delighted to report that author W...

I don't pray nearly enough or, when I do pray, nearly well enough. From the introduction to Ben Patterson's God's Prayer Book: T...

Wikipedia notes "Protestants generally regard all true Christian believers as saints and if they observe All Saints Day at all they us...

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 ...