One Eternal Day

This was quoted in a tweet that didn't indicate the precise source. Walter Lippman wrote it in 1937 but it seems just as relevant right...

A few weeks ago Alan Jacobs wrote an appreciation of historian C.V. Wedgwood, "...few historians today, even those rare birds who eve...

From CrimeReads today, "Solving Impossible Crimes." A murder is committed in a room that is locked from the inside, or sealed...

David French who was a youth pastor in a Kentucky church for a few months in 1998 writes about "Joshua Harris and Evangelical Purity C...

In "What Were Robespierre’s Pronouns?" Peggy Noonan argues that there are parallels between the French revolutionaries and ...

It's been a while since I read John Macnab but I remember it as a pleasure. I own it in an omnibus volume with Huntingtower and Three...

Via Anxious Bench where Chris Gehrz wrote about the origin and meaning of these mealtime prayers: Come, Lord Jesus, be our guest A...

"Here Is Love, Vast as the Ocean," is identified many places as the "love song" of the great 1904 Welsh Revival . The m...

Movies and history : .... Almost all of the “conventional wisdom” concerning the Scopes trial is false. Contrary to the impression cre...

John Stott in Why I Am a Christian , commenting on Matthew 11:25-27: .... Is it possible for human beings to come to know God, for creat...

From the instructions "Regarding Christian Death and Burial" in The Book of Common Prayer 2019 : The burial of a Christian is ...

Thus saith the L ORD , Stand ye in the ways,  and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shal...

The entry at Anecdotal Evidence this morning included a quotation from Barton Swaim's 2010 review of a collection of Samuel Johnson...

Michael Dirda in The Washington Post : "Johnston McCulley dreamed up Zorro 100 years ago" : 1940 film version ...[O]n Aug....

My copy of The Book of Common Prayer 2019 arrived in the mail this morning. I value this sort of thing primarily for the prayers although ...

One of the most important books that informed my understanding of conservatism was The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since ...

C.S. Lewis on faith: Now Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once a...

In 1926 on the day after his birthday and the one-hundred-and-fiftieth birthday of the United States Calvin Coolidge delivered a speech in ...

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