One Eternal Day

Via The Imaginative Conservative , a quotation from a book I remember being assigned in one of my high school English classes: “I shal...

The current issue of my denomination's monthly magazine, The Sabbath Recorder , contains a number of articles for and against the celeb...

Via Justin Taylor, J.I. Packer explained, in 1985, why he reads mysteries : .... I started young, ingesting my first Agatha Christies ...

Father, we thank Thee who hast planted Thy holy Name within our hearts. Knowledge and faith and life immortal Jesus Thy Son to us...

Alan Jacobs reviews Andrew Delbanco’s The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution...

In his "The Robespierre Generation" Rod Dreher quotes from a David Brooks column in the New York Times , "Liberal Parents, ...

This review of the final volume of the works of J.R.R. Tolkien that have been edited by his son, Christopher Tolkien (twenty-five books), ...

From Anecdotal Evidence : Those with fervently held opinions tend to be convinced of their importance, though some of us understand that...

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 ...