One Eternal Day

Have we been missing out by ignoring commemoration of some of the most important events in gospel history? ...[F]or many of us who have gro...

I taught secondary social studies and history for thirty-five years. Consequently I became familiar with various dubious theories, for insta...

From the Book of Common Prayer (1662): A LMIGHTY and everlasting God, who hatest nothing that Thou hast made, and dost forgive the sins of...

My favorite morning choice to break fast is not American after all : Americans have laid claim to “English muffins”, and you’ll find countle...

Burke on the proper place of politics : During his first few years in England, Edmund Burke compiled essay sketches and fragments in a noteb...

And it continues: Agatha Christie novels have been rewritten for modern sensitivities, The Telegraph can reveal. .... The character of a...

At The Free Press , "From Slavery in North Korea to Jeff Bezos’s Gulfstream," an excerpt from While Time Remains: A North Korean ...

A tweet I saw today pointed out that C.S. Lewis's The Abolition of Man was published eighty years ago, in 1943. The book is very short—...

Chidiock Tichborne was hanged, drawn, and quartered in 1586. He had been implicated in a Catholic plot to kill Queen Elizabeth I. He was 22 ...

Charles C.W. Cooke, annoyed with some of his critics, explains the difference between his role as an advocate and his responsibility as a v...

George MacDonald Fraser's Flashman series is surely one of the most entertaining ways to learn 19 th century history. This essay explai...

On Michael Caine's 90 th birthday, John Nolte lists his own favorite Caine films . Below are some of Nolte's favorites that I have ...

As the final episode of Endeavor has come to British television (and here soon, I hope), a consideration of the popularity of the series : ...

From an appreciation on Twitter : The older I get, the better C.S. Lewis gets. His wisdom gets keener, and his insight clearer year by year....

When Ancestry.com surprised me with news that much of my ancestry was Scottish (not Welsh, as we had thought), English, Swedish, and Dane, m...

About Leonard Cohen’s most well-known song : .... “Hallelujah” may have the 12/8 timing and major chords that work so well for gospel music ...

Ever since the 17 th century members of my denomination have had to navigate issues engaged by this upcoming US Supreme Court case : Shoul...

Alan Jacobs today , having read reviews of a friend's biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer: ...[I]t’s clear that there is a strong network o...

I just ordered a Blu-ray if one of my favorite modern noirs: Twilight (no vampires). The lead actors were Newman, Sarandon, Hackman, and Ga...

Richard Brookhiser, on the passing of friends : When someone you have known for decades dies, so does that part of your own life. Gone are t...