One Eternal Day

Samuel Johnson on the New Year 1774: ALMIGHTY GOD, merciful Father, who hatest nothing that Thou hast made, but wouldest that all should...

As we approach a New Year: EVER-LIVING God, by whose mercy we have come to the gateway of another year; Grant that we may enter it with ...

Based on Raymond Chandler's Farewell, My Lovely , the film version was renamed Murder, My Sweet (1944) because Dick Powell had hithert...

The Annotated Big Sleep is one of my Christmas books (a gift to myself). I've just started to read it. From the Amazon description (al...

We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father, God from God, Light from Light, true God fro...

Of the Father’s love begotten, ere the worlds began to be, He is Alpha and Omega, He the source, the ending He, Of the things that are...

"It seems, then", said Tirian..."that the Stable seen from within and the Stable seen from without are two different pla...

Joseph Bottum : You remember the scene of the schoolchildren—field-mice schoolchildren, naturally—caroling in "Dulce Domum," t...

Why is God landing in this enemy-occupied world in disguise and starting a sort of secret society to undermine the devil? Why is He not ...

But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to...

This new animated film is a joint BBC/Netflix production and is coming to Netflix on December 23: Netflix

Absolutely right: The Enchanted Hour: The Miraculous Power of Reading Aloud in the Age of Distraction . From the Amazon description: A...

Listening to this once again, right now: Via Mockingbird : from the Smithsonian in 2009 : George Frideric Handel's Messiah was o...

I need to see this. Peter Jackson's newest effort is a documentary: How it was done: "How Peter Jackson Made WWI Footage See...

The King shall come when morning dawns, And light triumphant breaks; When beauty gilds the eastern hills, And life to joy awakes. ...

Reading that C.S. Lewis had reviewed 1984 and searching for that I found that George Orwell had reviewed C.S. Lewis' That Hideous Stre...

Sing, O daughter of Zion; shout, O Israel; be glad and rejoice with all the heart, O daughter of Jerusalem. The L ORD hath taken away t...

Anyone who has followed this blog at all knows that my favorite light reading consists of mysteries and suspense. That started early and at...