One Eternal Day

My father enjoyed reading J.B. Phillips' The New Testament in Modern English (1958) and it does read well. In 1967 Phillips' Ring ...

Words by Isaac Watts, music arranged by Vaughan Williams There is a land of pure delight, Where saints immort...

Every form of denominational polity is imperfect. But the current scandals affecting American Catholicism and the obvious failure of the hi...

Yesterday was an anniversary of the birth of John D. MacDonald in 1916. I haven't read him recently but there was a time when I sought ...

Just acquired: Michael J. Kruger, Christianity at the Crossroads: How the Second Century Shaped the Future of the Church . The description ...

I've been browsing through Affirmations of God and Man (1967), a collection of quotations where I have often found, or rediscovered,...

From an essay by T.S. Eliot in 1930 : The Universal Church is today, it seems to me, more definitely set against the World than at any...

One of the better-known quotations from C.S. Lewis' Surprised by Joy : In reading Chesterton, as in reading Macdonald, I did not kno...

From "Why Christians Should Read Detective Fiction" : .... In his long essay “The Guilty Vicarage,” W.H. Auden, a self-conf...

From Kevin Williamson's review of The Death of Stalin .... Man is a bag of appetites and urges, not all of which are conducive to hi...

Re-posted from 2009 because it is really good advice: Bob at Wilderness Fandango offers "Bob's One Big Awesomely Important Tip...

Patrick Kurp's middle son entered the U.S. Naval Academy this summer. Kurp writes that "along with around-the-clock drill and oth...

I've been reading a selection of quotations from Blaise Pascal's Pensées . On his faith: Thus I stretch out my arms to my Savi...

I missed this particular controversy. I agree with his apology. A great Welsh hymn tune with words by Charles Wesley: Jesu...

If you've been perplexed by the outrage about "cultural appropriation" this essay, "The Evils of Cultural Appropriation,...

Carl Trueman responding to a proposal  to once again revise The Book of Common Prayer : ...[The Prayer Book's] content reflects a ...

Most of my favorite illustrators were working around the turn of the Twentieth Century which seems to have been a golden era for the illust...

To be released on November 11, 2018 — the 100 th anniversary of the truce that ended the First World War: I'm looking forward to thi...

Edmund Burke in his Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol : …. The extreme of liberty (which is its abstract perfection, but its real faul...

We sang one of my favorite hymns this morning in worship, Isaac Watts' paraphrase of the 23rd Psalm: "My Shepherd Will Supply My N...