One Eternal Day

About John Buchan's first thriller and its subsequent influences: A century after publication, John Buchan’s The Thirty-Nine Steps rem...

From a good essay about "Preventing a Failing Faith" : ...[D]on’t confuse giftedness with godliness. We live in a culture that pri...

Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667) in The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living : If your case be brought to the last extremity, at the pit's brink,...

I normally drink several cups of coffee every morning. That may be one of my healthier habits. From The Telegraph today: For most of us, dri...

Some films make me laugh even after many previous viewings. This is about one of them (and it references another): ... A Fish Called Wanda ...

I've been going through scrapbooks inherited from my folks. This was my parents' wedding party on April 6, 1942: Left to right: Ch...

A recent exchange about nostalgia reminded me of this: Home no more home to me, whither must I wander? by Robert Louis Stevenson ...

What I know about Nietzsche is entirely second-hand. I have never read him. I have read much about him by scholars, historians, political th...

1 Father, hear the prayer we offer:     not for ease that prayer shall be, but for strength that we may ever live our lives cou...

"Confessions of a Music User" was linked today at a blog I visit often. I use music as background much less than I once did. From...

On this Labor Day I once again quote from a 1942 address by Dorothy L. Sayers, "Why Work?" ( pdf ): I HAVE already, on a previous ...

From a fine essay by Yuval Levin, "Taking the Long Way," about what contemporary conservatives and liberals forget about the nece...

At CrimeReads Martin Edwards writes an appreciation of the one Dorothy L. Sayers novel  that, although a Lord Wimsey tale is—uncharacteristi...

Alan Jacobs discovered The Wind in the Willows as an adult. Me, too. Today, on his blog, he republishes an essay that originally appeared ...

I've posted about the Shroud of Turin on this blog several times. In 2009 I wrote : The Shroud of Turin is the one religious relic that...

Foundations of Faith  begins with a quotation often attributed to St Augustine: “In the essentials, unity, in the non-essentials liberty, an...

Re-posted, updated, from a very early post here : Know that the L ORD is God indeed; Without our aid He did us make; We are His flock, He ...

Re-posted. Many books have contributed to my understanding of Scripture and clarified what it means to be a believer — and especially, perh...

The Wall Street Journal celebrates "Alfred Hitchcock at 125: Still a Cinematic Titan" by posting links to reviews about some of ...