One Eternal Day

About a book I first read in the '60s: By reason of longevity alone, The Conservative Mind , as of 2023 a septuagenarian, is a classic....

Ayaan Hirsi Ali's account of her recent conversion to Christianity has been criticized by many non-believers but also by some Christian...

I've read several books by Thomas Howard, Chance or the Dance? , Splendor in the Ordinary , Christ the Tiger , and some of the essays co...

Based on several very favorable reviews I just ordered " Cat Power Sings Dylan: The 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert ." From a revie...

I have twelve films in my DVD collection directed by John Ford. Hitchcock is the only director with more. About  Ford at Wikipedia : He rec...

 

Bari Weiss, well before many of us, identified a pernicious ideology : What I saw was a worldview that replaced basic ideas of good and evil...

I'm looking forward to "Lawmen: Bass Reeves" (Paramount+). From The Wall Street Journal review : The real Bass Reeves (played...

Dick Francis was one of my favorite mystery/thriller writers. I read his books one after another in a summer in the late 70s, and then bough...

From a sermon preached on All Saints ' in 2019 by Ben Dueholm: People naturally get defensive and indignant when their heroes are shown ...

Russell Moore in "Springtime for Hitler"  reminds us of the 1930s and '40s perversion of the faith called "German Christi...

A hymn most appropriate for All Saints' Day sung to Ralph Vaughan Williams's SINE NOMINE  ("without name"): For al...

On Dorothy L. Sayers : .... Among Christians, she is best known as a colleague of C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien and others in the Inklings writ...

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...