One Eternal Day

The newest issue of CSL: The Bulletin of the New York C.S. Lewis Society arrived today. The lead essay introduces Subversive: Christ, Cultu...

Spurgeon died on January 31 1892, aged only 57, after a long illness. From his final sermon the previous summer: .... Those who have no mast...

I do enjoy Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings films (not so much his Hobbit trilogy). But there were several things Jackson got wrong. ...

Jonathan Aigner, at his blog Ponder Anew, has been posting a "Hymn of the Day" series. Today the s election is "I Heard the V...

Casablanca is eighty years old. Why do I re-watch it? Because it's true ? The greatest works of art, the ones that transcend generation...

Mike Cosper reviews Celebrities for Jesus: How Personas, Platforms, and Profits Are Hurting the Church . Cosper did The Rise and Fall of Mar...

Tomorrow, January 25 th , is the anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns and is celebrated by many Scots in the evening as Burns Night. I r...

From The Napoleon of Notting Hill : .... Tolstoy and the Humanitarians said that the world was growing more merciful, and therefore no one w...

Prufrock quotes passages from a review of Before Austen Comes Aesop: The Children’s Great Books and How to Experience Them : .... Childre...

I've read one biography of Sidney Reilly and probably won't also read this one , but a review of that book reminds me how very much...

In "Whatever Happened to Light Verse?" I enjoyed Phyllis McGinley's "Lament for a Wavering Viewpoint": I...

Chris Stirewalt : “I’m leaving, because with such a privileged role comes responsibility,” [New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda] Ardern said ...

From Paul Gutacker, "Tradition, the Bible, and America’s Debate over Slavery" : ...[S]cripture was at the center of the theologica...

From Jonathan Edwards, "Nothing Upon Earth Can Represent the Glories of Heaven (1724) ": Although all things upon earth are insuff...

Although important to my daily existence, coffee is probably not so in the great scheme of things. At National Review a consideration of ...

Last night I once again watched the Granada/Masterpiece Theater version of The Hound of the Baskervilles starring Jeremy Brett. It is the m...

Paul Johnson, author of Modern Times: From the Twenties to the Nineties , and some forty other books, has died at the age of 94. Steven Hayw...

Joseph Ratzinger, teacher, understood a truth about a good lecture (or sermon, for that matter): Before he was a pope, before he was a pref...

A tweet by someone about to begin a class called "C.S. Lewis and the Dark Enchantment of Modernity" reminded me of this : The Sil...

"The star, which they saw in the east, went before them..." The term Epiphany is taken from the Greek word for “manifestation” a...