One Eternal Day

Via Steven Hayward in "Our Present Discontents, Then and Now," quoting Edmund Burke from Reflections on the Revolution in France...

God and the Church: John Donne (1572-1631) Our first step then in this first part, is, the sociablenesse , the cornmunicablenesse of ...

From the introduction to Ben Patterson's Waiting : I hate to wait. My image of hell is an eternity of standing in line, waiting in...

A Tackle (1909) J.C. Leyendecker (March 23, 1874 – July 25, 1951) was a German-American illustrator. He is considered to be one of t...

One of my favorite Norman Rockwell illustrations: "Saying Grace," from the cover of the Saturday Evening Post , November 24, 1951...

Alan Jacobs, wrote a few years ago "Against Stupidity," which begins: I have been thinking a lot about stupidity lately, larg...

Paul Kengor, author of God and Ronald Reagan: A Spiritual Life , writes here about a recently discovered letter from Reagan to his father-...

Thomas Traherne, Centuries of Meditations , #92: It is an inestimable joy that I was raised out of nothing to see and enjoy this gloriou...

From Bradley Birzer's "Ray Bradbury Was the Coolest Non-Conformist on the Planet" : .... “Life is short, misery sure, mo...

Today CrimeReads posts an appreciation of Eric Ambler , the "Father of the Modern Thriller." .... Ambler’s heroes, especially ...

YE say we sleep; But nay, we wake; Life was that strange and chequered dream Only for waking’s sake.                            ...

From Commentary, "Among the Disbelievers" : It’s tedious to encounter a “new atheist” intoning arguments against faith that ...

"Rip Van Winkle" by Washington Irving: Whoever has made a voyage up the Hudson must remember the Kaatskill mountains. They...

I haven't read The Free Fishers (1934) for some time but I have it and will read it again. It is one of Buchan's historical novels...

Via Anecdotal Evidence , Robert Louis Stevenson on the value of works of fiction: They repeat, they rearrange, they clarify the lessons ...

One of my favorite G.K. Chesterton quotations: In the matter of reforming things, as distinct from deforming them, there is one plain...

"Is Safetyism Destroying a Generation?" asks a reviewer of Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff’s new book, The Coddling of the Ame...

CrimeReads provides "A Mystery Lover's Guide to Pirate Novels" noting that pirates were, of course, criminals. Treasure Isla...

One of the hymns we sang this morning: If thou but suffer God to guide thee And hope in Him through all thy ways, He’ll give t...

Veronica Baugh has been reading The Screwtape Letters : The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis is quite possibly one of the scariest boo...