One Eternal Day

Annie Holmquist at Intellectual Takeout on avoiding stupidity. Dietrich Bonhoeffer: .... “Stupidity,” he said, “is a more dangerous ene...

A friend recommended this review of Burke, Lincoln and the Politics of Prudence . Prudence as a political virtue: .... For Edmund Burk...

In an essay about Susan Sontag Joseph Epstein introduces us to the "savant-idiot" (not idiot savant): An idiot savant, as is ...

W.H. Auden on the abandonment of the 1928 Book of Common Prayer by American Episcopalians (the 1928 Prayer Book was replaced in 1979, but...

"The Auden Poem Auden Hated" is a review of a book about "September 1, 1939," composed by Auden upon the outbreak of W...

This morning David French quoted from a several years old column by David Brooks : The résumé virtues are the skills you bring to the ma...

At GetReligion today the post includes three doctrinal questions the wrong answers to which would clearly place a person outside Christian...

Re-posted Awake, my soul, and with the sun Thy daily stage of duty run; Shake off dull sloth, and joyful rise,  To pay thy morning...

I taught about the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. And I taught about the genocide committed by the Nazis. But I didn...

In "Founding Deists and Other Unicorns" James Bruce reviews Did America Have a Christian Founding? by Mark David Hall. He begin...

Jonah Goldberg on dogs (he has two): .... Unlike all other “companion” animals—cats, horses, parrots, monkeys, hawks, Packers fans (I...

A hymn most appropriate for All Saints' Day sung to Ralph Vaughan Williams's SINE NOMINE ["without name"], perhaps r...

I am really enjoying The Dispatch and, for the time being, it is free. From David French today: I urge everyone to read Ross Douthat’...

Today is Reformation Day and tomorrow is All Saints' Day: This Reformation Day is the 502nd anniversary of the day Martin Luth...

Re-posted Tomorrow, October 31st, is Reformation Day. Kevin DeYoung reminds us of some of the most important reasons we are Protestants:...

Via The Imaginative Conservative , a painting I don't recall seeing before, “Northeaster” (1895) by Winslow Homer (1836-1910):

David French listened to Jesus Is King last weekend and reflects on "Kanye West and the Power of the New Believer": First, ne...

My annual reminder: As Halloween approaches it is useful for the more excitable among us to be reminded that the Evil One has already bee...

Farewell, farewell! but this I tell To thee, thou Wedding-Guest! He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. ...

Re-posted. Glory to Thee, my God, this night, For all the blessings of the light: Keep me, O keep me, King of kings, Beneath Thine ...