One Eternal Day

An essay I read this afternoon quoted from Dorothy L. Sayers and set me looking for the source. I found it in Creed or Chaos (1949). From...

From a lengthy and very interesting interview with Jordan Peterson : COWEN: J.R.R. Tolkien — do his works interest you? PETERSON: Yes,...

From The Golden Grove, or, A Manuall of Daily Prayers and Letanies (1655) by Jeremy Taylor, "A Prayer for a holy and happy Death...

From The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living (1650) by Jeremy Taylor : A Prayer to be said in any affliction, in a sad and disconsolate...

Philip Jenkins v. a myth : If you shine powerful flashlights into the more benighted corners of university humanities departments, you c...

From a review of Nostalgia: Going Home in a Homeless World : ...“[N]ostalgia” emerged into English from an ancient Greek word for “hom...

On the anniversary of his birth a passage from Washington's Farewell Address in 1796 : It is important...that the habits of thinki...

A poem by Sir Walter Raleigh, his last, composed the night before he was beheaded: Even such is Time, that takes in trust Our youth, our ...

Every one of us cares deeply for someone—a friend, a relative (or, as Lewis points out, yourself)—who behaves in a way or believes somethin...

Carl Trueman at First Things on the incompatibility of Christianity with the spirit of our age: .... The abiding—perhaps dominant—myth ...

Thucydides was one of the books assigned for my international relations theory class in graduate school. This essay, "A Possession for...

I recall reading The Life and Diary of David Brainerd at some point years ago and being rather intimidated by his example of commitment. T...

The final verses of Kipling's "The Gods of the Copybook Headings" (1919): As it will be in the future, it was at the ...

Alias Uncle Hugo (1952) is one of the lesser Tommy Hambledon stories by " Manning Coles ," nevertheless thoroughly enjoyable. It...

William Cowper, who often suffered depression, wrote Sometimes a Light Surprises in 1779: Sometimes a light surprises the Christian whil...

Originally posted some years ago but increasingly relevant: Why should men love the Church? Why should they love her laws? She tells them...

On the anniversary of Lincoln's birth, from "Abraham Lincoln's Cooper Union Address" (February, 1860). Lincoln is respon...

In "Southern Baptists and the Scandal of Church Sexual Abuse" Russell Moore responds to an investigation revealing such abuse an...

C.S. Lewis on the irksomeness of prayer: Now the disquieting thing is not simply that we skimp and begrudge the duty of prayer. The re...