One Eternal Day

Just received in the mail from InterVarsity Press, The 1662 Book of Common Prayer: International Edition . I came to order it after reading ...

From a review of poet Dana Gioia's recently published memoir: .... Today the word “piety” is used to describe hollow and sentimental sh...

Browsing through previous posts on this blog I came across this and I like it very much. .... I have never yet met a parent who complain...

Samuel Johnson, August 15, 1773, in Edinburgh, on the wisdom of committing oneself to a political party: I CAN see that a man may do right t...

Last night I watched once again my favorite film adaptation of Treasure Island (1990). There have been quite a few . I've seen many of ...

From a Jay Nordlinger post today: In recent years, people have liked to describe themselves, and others, as “post-liberals.” I find this te...

From "Book Four" of Mere Christianity : .... I remember once when I had been giving a talk to the RA.F., an old, hard-bitten offic...

Peggy Noonan on "Why We Care About the Royal Family Feud" : .... Why should an American care about any of this? I suppose we shoul...

One of the essays collected in Dorothy L. Sayers' Creed or Chaos (1949) is "The Other Six Deadly Sins" (an address delivered...

I haven't been physically in a congregational gathered worship service since about this time last year. I yearn to be, but best not in t...

Fom Tim Keller's "Growing My Faith in the Face of Death" (all of which is very much worth reading): I have spent a good part ...

In "The Muddled Message of 'Hillbilly Elegy'" Hannah Long argues that it would have been a better film if it had more hum...

I just signed up with FAIR: The Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism based both on their expressed principles and the credibility to m...

Patrick Kurp writes about Lincoln's strengths as a writer beginning by quoting from his first inaugural address , delivered one hundred...

From this essay in The Wall Street Journal last Friday: .... Reflecting nostalgically on the past is a common and healthy experience that ...

Rabbi Meir Y. Soloveichik in "The Jew Who Ran Away" on one of my favorite films: .... The two runners we see in Chariots [of Fire...

Thomas Chatterton Williams in The Wall Street Journal : .... If we care about solving the racial dilemma once and for all, we should first ...

From "How to have better arguments online" : .... If humans were purely rational entities, we would listen politely to an opposin...

A "Prayer for Those in Trouble": WE remember before Thee, O Lord, our brethren who are tried with sickness: entreating Thee to in...

Remember, O man: Thou art dust, and to dust thou shalt return. Genesis 3:19   Believers who use the Christian Calendar to guide religi...