One Eternal Day

Re-posted Today, October 31st, is Reformation Day. Kevin DeYoung reminded us of some of the most important reasons we are Protestants: ...

Tomorrow, October 31 st , is Reformation Day and the day following is All Saints' Day. Reformation Day is the anniversary of the day Mar...

From a review of The Soul of Civility by Alexandra Hudson: .... Civility, she writes, is not a technique but a disposition, “a way of seei...

This weekend Halloween is being celebrated here. The celebration is a bit more subdued than it once was but still, the proprietor of the est...

Patrick Kurp just reached 71. Yesterday at his blog, Anecdotal Evidence, he  quoted Samuel Johnson on aging. From "a December 7, 1782 ...

Can the clock be turned back? Can social disintegration be reversed? When it seems that things are falling apart, that "the center cann...

Scrolling through the things related to C.S. Lewis that I have posted on this site, I came across this (shortened and slightly modified): Fr...

Halloween will be celebrated here this coming weekend and homes and lawns have long been decorated. It is a thoroughly secular holiday for m...

I've never been a parent but this book does seem to me to offer some good advice for parenting.  From a review of  A+ Parenting :  .... ...

John  Buchan on his thrillers : ...I had become a copious romancer. I suppose I was a natural story-teller, the kind of man who for the sake...

I'm finding John Buchan's memoir both interesting and relevant. Here he describes the attitudes of many after World War I . It seeme...

John Buchan , a Scot,  remembers his father : So among these chapters it may be permitted to allot one to the pictures which, as we grow old...

Russell Moore recently attended a gathering where a letter from C.S. Lewis to J.R.R. Tolkien was quoted. The Lewis quotation, then Moore : “...

John Buchan, then Governor-General of Canada, on American democracy : .... It has two main characteristics. The first is that the ordinary m...

E.D. Hirsch Jr. in Cultural Literacy argued that there are things that “every American needs to know." Biblical literacy ought to be a...

Why have the books John P. Marquand wrote as popular fiction survived while his more serious, lterary, works are now seldom read? Lawrence B...

From Kevin Williamson's newsletter today, on a favorite chapter: One of the few scenes in a book that will reliably make me tear up a l...

About Dorothy L. Sayers' detective mysteries featuring Lord Peter Wimsey. They are among my favorite mysteries: The youngest brother of ...

National Review was founded by William F. Buckley Jr. in 1955. In that first issue, Buckley wrote "It stands athwart history, yelling ...

“The Day of Judgement will not come about until Moslems fight the Jews, when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and tree...