One Eternal Day

For food that stays our hunger, For rest that brings us ease, For homes where memories linger, We give our thanks for these.

In the British Parliament: MPs are due to vote next week on a private member’s bill to legalise assisted dying in England and Wales. MPs hav...

Philip Jenkins , always worth reading, on "The Nicene Myth," in which he argues that the Council of Nicaea wasn't the inflect...

Norman Rockwell 1920

I didn't vote for President this year but am interested in why things turned out the way they did. More 2024 election data from a graph ...

I taught high school political science electives for over three decades. That didn't make me a political scientist. I am actually skepti...

On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918 an armistice, ending combat between the armed forces of the Allied Powers and Imp...

When I studied American history in high school and college Woodrow Wilson was taught as one of the great Progressive Presidents. Opinions ha...

Five Books recommends reading Tolkien because the books are a different experience than the films: These are stories of adventure that have...

From a few years ago, a few thoughts about the significance of All Saints' Day: For over a thousand years, many Christians have celebrat...

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...