One Eternal Day

My Great-Grandfather's brother: Levi W. Bond, Company B, 15th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry, US, killed September 3, 1864, Age 1...

G.K. Chesterton's birthday was today, May 29, in 1874. I was born on May 29 in 1946. GKC on birthdays: The first fact about the celebrat...

Winston Churchill, from his St. George’s Day speech in April, 1933: .... The worst difficulties from which we suffer do not come from witho...

Lots of articles about Dylan today, his 80 th birthday. From " Bob Dylan Refused to Be the Voice of a Generation ," quoting him: ...

On the Sunday when much of the Church celebrates Pentecost: GOD, who as at this time didst teach the hearts of Thy faithful people, by sendi...

Gandalf to Bilbo: Surely you don’t disbelieve the prophecies just because you helped them come about. You don’t really suppose do you that a...

From Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Sabbath : He who wants to enter the holiness of the day must first lay down the profanity of clattering com...

A blogger I read regularly quotes today from chapter 15 of the Screwtape Letters . If you aren't familiar with the book, it is one of C...

I think we would be better off if our political representatives were more like Edmund Burke in his "Speech to the Electors of Bristol...

From The Collects of Thomas Cranmer : Almighty and everlasting God, which art always more ready to hear than we to pray, and art wont to giv...

We've been a-rambling all this night, And sometime of this day; And now returning back again We bring a branch of Ma...

Netherlands Bach Society In 'Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme', performed by the Netherlands Bach Society for All of Bach, everything...

J.C. Ryle : The day is coming when there shall be a congregation that shall never break up, and a Sabbath that shall never end, a song of pr...

My denomination emails me a Bible passage and meditation every morning. This morning it was Lamentations 3:22-33. They use the English Stan...

Michael Dirda : .... Until the last third of the 20 th century, education broadly meant familiarity with the best that had been written or ...

It snowed lightly here today. Spring is, for the moment, postponed. Samuel Johnson in Rambler No. 5 : There is, indeed, something inexpressi...

In "Why the bigotry of CS Lewis’s Narnia books shouldn’t disqualify their magic"   Katherine Langrish argues for the continuing va...

The performance omits the fifth verse God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants His footsteps in the sea...

Patrick Kurp, who is younger than I am, on the advantages of age : On this date, April 16, in 1939, George Santayana wrote in a letter to hi...

From Michael Dirda's review of a new book about Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot: In the recent Washington Post poll to choose the...