One Eternal Day

I just got back from an excursion with my brother. We've been doing them for decades, usually for only three or four days, and usually o...

From "Christian Apologetics," delivered by C.S. Lewis “to an assembly of Anglican priests and youth leaders ... at Carmarthen [Wa...

Michael Dirda in "Classic mysteries are having a moment" suggests a reason: "Why? In part because wise readers, weary of con...

Alan Jacobs is reading Augustine's The City of God , blogging as he reads . He has reached the end of Book XVIII, from which: ...[W]e ha...

My denomination experienced the conflict between "modernism" and "fundamentalism" in the early 20 th century. My grand...

J. Gresham Machen ’s Christianity and Liberalism was published one-hundred years ago, in 1923. The "liberalism" referred to in th...

trust : Firm belief in the integrity, ability, or character of a person or thing; confidence or reliance. The American Heritage Dictionary ...

If you don't know her books and essays, you should. From "The Remarkable Dorothy L. Sayers" : .... Dorothy L. Sayers (1893–195...

Alan Jacobs responding to criticism by someone who thinks he doesn't know "what time it is": .... But I think I do know. It’s...

"Apologetics in an Age of Despair" begins with a reference to C.S. Lewis’s That Hideous Strength : ...[T]he character Mark descri...

Chad Bird tweeted : If I call God “God” I speak truthfully. If I call God “Lord” I speak submissively. If I call God “King” I speak servil...

Responding to critics who find conservatism futile, Alan Jacobs : .... And can we really “no longer conserve”? To conserve is surely to inh...

Dorothy L. Sayers: ...[T]he head and origin of all sin is the basic sin of Superbia or Pride. .... It is the sin of trying to be as God. ...

Timothy Carney : Humans are tribal creatures. We are made to belong to things — families, churches, communities, clubs, subcultures, teams, ...

Thomas Kidd has posted "Confessions of Faith and the Baptist Tradition" responding to Rick Warren, pastor of Saddleback Church, a...

A friend recently linked to a song about West Virginia (where I was born) that reminded me of a chorus sung at my mother's funeral by a ...

Carl Trueman uses the newest controversy about Monty Python's The Life of Bryan , to illustrate "Blasphemy Then and Now" : The...

John Wilson refers to two of my favorite films: One of the most memorable lines in Murder, My Sweet , the 1944 film based on Raymond Chandl...

I'm not a cynic about politics, but skepticism is always justified. Theodore Dalrymple is here commenting on British politics , but his ...

From "A Church Grows in Brooklyn" : .... In China, my father’s family was converted by Anglican missionaries from England, while m...