One Eternal Day

Freedom from Want, Norman Rockwell, 1943 Now thank we all our God, with heart and hands and voices, Who wondrous things has do...

G.K. Chesterton: It is not natural or obvious to let a man utter follies and abominations which you believe to be bad for mankind anymore...

Via Anecdotal Evidence , a letter from William Cowper to John Newton on this date in 1781: Discoverers of truth are generally sober, mod...

Thomas Kidd on the Gettysburg Address : Abraham Lincoln in 1863 November 19 is the anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Addr...

From Jonah Goldberg's " Fusionism Today ," prerequisites to freedom: .... There is another problem. Freedom itself—at leas...

When I walk I don't use electronics, or, usually alone, talk. It is time to think, listen, observe, pray. I enjoyed this : As an und...

In the current issue of National Review appears "The Long Shadow of the Great War: How J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis defied the spiri...

Via Alan Jacobs, from "A sermon for Remembrance Day," (the day Americans call Veterans' Day): .... Today we remember espe...

One of the consequences of the First World War was the Russian Revolution. The current issue of the Claremont Review of Books has reviews ...

Allen Guelzo on "The Great War's Price" : .... Given that almost 8 percent of the American population was (like my gre...

Alan Jacobs likes maps and really likes this book : Barring some unforeseen miracle of publishing occurring in the next few weeks, The W...

If you read detective fiction but are unfamiliar with G.K. Chesterton's Father Brown stories there is potential pleasure ahead. From ...

Peter Hitchens, who is not an atheist, reviews John Gray's Seven Types of Atheism . Gray is an atheist but seems to have a very clear-e...

If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds,  and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of...

From David French in "Christian Youth Should Hold Faith Tightly and Politics Loosely" : Each generation of young Christians ha...

Continuing with The Gospel in Dorothy L. Sayers: Selections from Her Novels, Plays, Letters, and Essays , I'm coming across some things...

In "Saying Goodbye for Good" Wesley Hill writes: In his book A Severe Mercy , a memoir of Christian conversion and student ...

In the mail today: The Gospel in Dorothy L. Sayers: Selections from Her Novels, Plays, Letters, and Essays . The material below is from the...

Today is Reformation Day and tomorrow is All Saints' Day.  Last year we celebrated both in our worship service. This was the introducti...

I've posted this several times in years past as Halloween has approached. I was reminded to do so once again today by reading someone el...