One Eternal Day

I started blogging here shortly after I retired from teaching in 2005, usually posting several times a week. Consequently, there is a lot of...

I spend a great deal of time online — too much time. But I do curate what I read. I'm pretty ruthless about blocking or not following Fa...

Tomorrow, January 27, is the "International Day in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust." It is important to remember. Reviewing...

I just subscribed to a promising new blog on Substack, The New Jerusalem , authored by father and son, Andrew and Spencer Klavan, "one...

There were Western intellectuals who believed Bolshevik Russia was the future "and it works ." Lenin, its founder, allegedly said ...

I grew up next to a college campus. The college had a serious music department and from an early age I was taken to both instrumental and vo...

I recently noticed on Facebook that the church in which I grew up is offering a Sabbath School class titled “Welcoming the LGBT+ Community i...

Come, Thou Fount of every blessing, tune my heart to sing Thy grace; Streams of mercy, never ceasing, call for songs of loudest pr...

If, as an adult, you haven't read C.S. Lewis, but might consider doing so, Thomas Howard in  Touchstone magazine (1999) had recommendat...

In preparing the previous post I did a search on my blog for "Peter" and came across this: Our desires may not conform to God'...

C.S. Lewis on Dorothy L. Sayers, mystery author: Prigs have put it about that Dorothy in later life was ashamed of her "tekkies" a...

In Challies' "I Feel At Home in Your Church" he argues that denominational diversity is a strength rather than an indictment ...

Mere Orthodoxy imagines a recent letter from Screwtape to Wormwood. Gets it right, too: My dear Wormwood, I’m pleased to hear that your pati...

Goodbye, Mr. Chips is a book I read long ago, long before I decided to be a teacher. I do enjoy the 1939 film with Robert Donat in the titl...

"Since the outbreak of the pandemic in 2020, 18 times more U.S. teenagers have died from deaths of despair than from COVID-19...."...

I think I first saw the Rathbone/Bruce Sherlock Holmes films on my great-aunt's TV on Saturday afternoons while I was still grade school...

"The star, which they saw in the east, went before them..." The term Epiphany is taken from the Greek word for “manifestation” a...

On January 1 in the United States copyright ran out on books, films, and a lot of music published in 1928. They are now, after 95 years, in ...

When Nikki Haley seemed not to know the cause of the American Civil War, that whole argument re-emerged. The answer to the question is simpl...

Thomas Howard: Any serious and thoughtful Christian is a dogmatist, not in the sense of being pig-headed or ostrichlike, but in the sense of...