One Eternal Day

Another way to consider the macabre decorations that appear on neighborhood lawns this time of year: .... Long before suburbanites started ...

October 31st is Reformation Day and the day following is All Saints' Day:  Reformation Day is the anniversary of the day Martin Luther i...

Ministry of Fear (1944) is one of those films I re-watch with pleasure. It was directed by Fritz Lang , loosely based on the novel by Graha...

From Michael J. Kruger on "How Not To Become a Celebrity Pastor" : .... Most pastors don’t think they are in danger of becoming a ...

I taught required U.S. History classes every one of my thirty-six years as a public school teacher. My first teaching job was in the 1968-69...

I've been getting CSL:The Bulletin of the New York C.S. Lewis Society since I was in graduate school. Invariably there is something int...

The Library of America has combined three Bruce Catton books in its The Army of the Potomac Trilogy . From Harold Holzer's "Echoes ...

President Abraham Lincoln on March 30, 1863 : [W]hereas it is the duty of nations as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overru...

Tolkien acknowledged that The Lord of the Rings would not have been completed without C.S. Lewis's encouragement. Lewis loved LOTR and...

Bryan Garner offers "A Dozen Ways to Boost a Child’s Education: Part 1" : .... Like almost all other parents, I was committed to d...

From Jonah Goldberg's newsletter at The Dispatch , "Hold Your Horses" : In the early days of World War II, Britain struggled t...

Andrew Wilson : A few years ago I noticed how many of my favourite authors were writing during or immediately after World War II. .... ...

Our congregation once used the Seventh Day Baptist Statement of Belief , along with scripture and hymns appropriate to each affirmation, in ...

This morning I read about The Daring Book for Girls (2007). About fifteen years ago I bought The Dangerous Book for Boys . I thoroughly enj...

Patrick Kurp's son, a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps, has been reading G.K. Chesterton's Orthodoxy . Tradition may be defined...

A pub in Oxford: I’ve just bought Tolkien’s pub in Oxford. Well, to be more precise, I and more than 300 fellow drinkers have bought the La...

I came across the illustration below on the right this morning and consequently went looking for posts here about the Trinity. From among th...

The quotation in the last post reminded me of Annie Dillard. I once owned and read Pilgrim at Tinker Creek . I looked online for quotations ...

Chesterton wrote that “If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.” I came across this on Twitter this morning: Annie Dillard on wor...