One Eternal Day

From Old Book Illustrations : "Attack on a Galleon," Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates (1903)

Through the night of doubt and sorrow     Onward goes the pilgrim band, Singing songs of expectation, Marching to the Promised La...

Today Jonathan Aigner offers "9 Hymns for Those Struggling with Anxiety and Depression." He writes: I’m not going to tell you...

Most of the new-to-me hymn texts/tunes that I have posted on this site I found while leafing through A Hymn Companion (1985) by Frank Colqu...

God, that madest earth and heaven,        Darkness and light, Who the day for toil hast given, For rest the night: May Thine an...

From Old Book Illustrations : Charles Dana Gibson, 1902 Gibson Girl Portrait – Old Book Illustrations

After some prompting by Facebook friends I finally got around to looking at the "Old Book Illustrations" site. There are thousan...

Browsing my bookshelves this afternoon I came to Whittaker Chambers' Witness . It was his autobiography concentrating particularly on h...

On the anniversary of his birth, from an Independence Day speech Lincoln delivered on July 10, 1858: .... We are now a mighty nation,...

A hymn written in 1864: "At the time the hymn was written the war had reached a turning-point. Following the bloody Battle of the Wild...

Alan Jacobs this morning : A small group of Baylor University Scholars and I are reading the New Testament, in a slightly peculiar fashi...

On one of the Facebook pages I visit daily there appeared a quotation attributed to C.S. Lewis: “There is someone I love, even though I...

From "No flash in the pan by John Steele Gordon" about my favorite series of historical novels: .... This year is the fifti...

From "'No Divine Revelation, Feminine Intuition or Mumbo Jumbo': Dorothy L Sayers and the Detection Club" : In 1933,...

And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon; and the same man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of I...

Michael Dirda on re-reading (which he doesn't do very much): ...[S]ome folks discover the secret to thwarting the meretricious al...

I've been quoting Alan Jacobs quite a lot recently. It occurred to me that it has not been just "recently" so I did a search ...

Alan Jacobs : .... In response to the Pharisees who claim that it is through Beelzebub that Jesus casts out demons, he lashes them : “Yo...

Alan Jacobs links to "an annotated anthology I was invited to edit — and then disinvited," consequently unfinished, but what he ...