One Eternal Day

October 31st is Reformation Day and the day following is All Saints' Day:  Reformation Day is the anniversary of Martin Luther's cha...

I would describe myself as a philosophical pessimist, but a temperamental optimist. As the election approaches an argument against despair :...

In a recent Facebook comment I indicated that I was a conservative, and consequently most often voted for Republican candidates. I'm not...

Every Sunday at The Free Press Douglas Murray writes about "Things Worth Remembering." This Sunday his choice is from T.S. Eliot...

I seldom post about partisan politics here, but as the election approaches I've been thinking a lot about the Presidential contest. I ac...

Jake Meador, on Tolkien's view of moral responsibility . This was published in September and I missed it. .... There is a simplicity abo...

"Equality" is an essay by C.S. Lewis that appeared in The Spectator  on 27 August 1943: I am a democrat because I believe in the F...

From a C.S. Lewis sermon delivered Church of St Mary the Virgin, Oxford, on June 8, 1942: In speaking of this desire for our own far-off co...

Whittaker Chambers inoculated me against Ayn Rand . So, unlike many other male adolescents my age, I never bothered to read her big books. T...

I enjoyed this from  Patrick Kurp : I’m reminded of my age only when someone holds a door open for me ( That’s my job! ) or performs some ot...

An interesting essay about intellectual humility: Suppose you want to be a better person. (Lots of us do.) How might you go about it? You m...

Jake Meador writes "A Tale of Three Pastors" today and at one point quotes a line from C.S. Lewis's The Great Divorce . I las...

John Keegan was an English military historian. The book of his that I first read was The Face of Battle (1976) about the experience of com...

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 ...