One Eternal Day

I read the Nordhoff & Hall trilogy ( Mutiny on the Bounty, Men Against the Sea, and Pitcairn Island ) while in elementary school. Late...

Carl Greene is Executive Director of the Seventh Day Baptist General Conference . In the current Sabbath Recorder , he writes "Sabbath ...

Exploring again at Standard EBooks I've come across Earl Derr Biggars' The House Without a Key , described on the site: Published i...

Fawlty Towers is about to reappear, this time on stage. I bought the entire series on DVD some time ago. It's funny. John Cleese on humo...

Most historians agree that the reparations required of Germany after World War I had unfortunate consequences. Are those lessons relevant t...

I watched Civilization when it first aired on PBS. I watched it in B&W because I did not yet have a color TV. I was enthralled. I am ge...

Planning to grill this evening, so was happy to come across this in The Telegraph  this morning. It discusses seven myths about choosing a ...

Anthony Esolen's "Word of the Week" is "Friend": Cicero wrote a charming treatise on friendship , in which he says,...

The Word & Song substack remembers a song each week. Recently it was "I Saw the Light" by Hank Williams: .... The idea for ou...

Carl Trueman : I recently revisited a book that I had not read for many years: Robert P. Ericksen’s Theologians Under Hitler . It is a study...

A reference in today's Free Press newsletter led me to "Why Does Being Left-Wing Make You Unhappy?" Following the link will ...

Please don't tell anyone you are "tired of life." The progress in countries like Belgium and the Netherlands has been from ...

I posted about  Standard Ebooks  on Facebook recently. I am really enjoying the site. It describes itself this way: Standard Ebooks is a vol...

The time came, quite a few years ago, when the foreign language department in my high school decided to call themselves the "world...

One of the first books I can remember reading was Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island . From then until now I've been drawn to ...

A reimagining of Mark Twain's Huck Finn  that is likely worth a read : James is based on an ingenious premise: It retells the story of ...

The teaching of history in our schools and colleges isn't what it was, but these guys are all old enough to have learned stuff if they w...

On slavery , and the campaign against it: ...[T]he country that led the world in the rebellion against this barbarism – and played a bigger ...

Richard Dawkins is an evolutionary biologist, and a prominent one. But he is more widely known as one of the New Atheists . Consequently, a ...

I enjoyed reading Alan Jacobs'  "A Letter From Karl Barth." The letter was to Dorothy L. Sayers. On 7 September 1939, a week ...