One Eternal Day

Within "Who Decides What Year It Is Anyhow?" comes a clear explanation of a one-time important change in the calendar: Our curren...

I liked John McCormack's explanation of one of the reasons he enjoys working at The Dispatch : On a personal level, what I missed most ...

Reviewing a film I won't bother to see: .... The prospect of playing famous people who declaim at length about large ideas reliably att...

Good advice : If you are searching for a New Year’s resolution that will lead you to success in life, it’s not too late. In fact, not being ...

The carol mourns the death of the baby boys of Bethlehem when King Herod, having caught wind that one of them was destined to take over hi...

Paul Kingsnorth describes a journey: "After years of atheism, I went searching for the truth. I found Buddhism, then witchcraft, and ev...

More: What wondrous love is this, O my soul, O my soul! What wondrous love is this, O my soul! What wondrous love is this that caused...

Of the Father’s love begotten, ere the worlds began to be, He is Alpha and Omega, He the source, the ending He, Of the things that are...

Almighty God, give us grace, that we may cast away the works of darkness, and put upon us the armor of light, now in the time of this mortal...

John Buchan on Arthur Balfour (1848-1930), "the greatest public figure of that time": His character will be a puzzle to future h...

Reflecting on the traditional liturgy as Christmas approaches: “O Come, O Come, Emmanuel” derives from a far older cycle of Advent prayers ...

I've been enjoying these commentaries on the Hannay books by John Buchan — and especially having come to the one about Mr. Standfast , ...

From Dickens' Pickwick Papers . ...[N]umerous indeed are the hearts to which Christmas brings a brief season of happiness and enjoyment....

On the importance of knowing whose birth we will celebrate on Christmas (John 1:14): Who then was Jesus, really? You cannot even ask ...

Advent is a time about the "already but not yet": the time between the coming of Messiah and the time when He comes again. Three p...

From ""The Power of Wise Custom" by Thomas Howard: How should we worship? It would seem presumptuous in the extreme for any m...

Steven Pinker : 10/7 exposed the moral confusion—a charitable way of putting it—of the identitarian/critical-theory/social-justice/intersect...

I've posted about the Detection Club before . Yesterday I came across " Rules for Murder: The Detection Club and the Evolution of t...

Today was St. Nicholas Day. Kevin DeYoung on "Who Was St. Nicholas?" : The unsatisfying answer to the title of this post is that ...