One Eternal Day

Samuel Johnson on New Year's Eve, 1749/50: ALMIGHTY GOD , by whose will I was created, and by whose Providence I have been sustained, by...

I had always assumed we already had a national bird. Apparently, I was wrong: President Biden last week signed a unanimously approved bill t...

I retired from teaching before the cell phone took hold with high school students but I live among today's college students. On the elev...

I may wait until it is streaming, but I will see A Complete Unknown. From a Wall Street Journal review of the film: Among the many music...

For some reason, this came to mind today. Matthew Bracewell and his wife may have been Stonefort Seventh Day Baptist Church members. Pope Co...

In the bleak midwinter,      frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron,     water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, ...

Ralph Vaughan Williams, "Herefordshire Carol": This is the truth sent from above, The truth of God, the God of love; Th...

Lamenting the decline in reading for pleasure by the young, this Telegraph column explains why "Reading is vital for our children...

Christmastide at 600 College St. when I was young: candles in every street-facing window, a wreath on the front door and a festooned evergre...

C.S. Lewis on the Incarnation: …the Christian story is precisely the story of one grand miracle, the Christian assertion being that what is...

From Dickens' Pickwick Papers . ...[N]umerous indeed are the hearts to which Christmas brings a brief season of happiness and enjoyment....

Joni Eareckson Tada reflecting on the hymn "When We All Get to Heaven": .... Shining in brilliant beauty, with no more pain or sor...

First Things is a magazine that has always had Protestant, Catholic, Orthodox, and Jewish contributors. Carl Trueman, a Protestant, is one ...

The author of The Certainty Trap describes the problem : ...[T]he easiest way to recognize it is by how we feel when we’re in it. We know w...

Advent began this past weekend. Walter Russell Mead reflected on the meaning of Advent in "The Coming" : .... If there is no...

Jake Meador exited the church he grew up in at age seventeen, "angry and confused." Reading Sheldon Vanauken's A Severe Mercy ...

I put out my Christmas wreath this weekend. I've known Christians who choose not to celebrate Christmas. Kevin DeYoung explains why at l...

From "And They Began to Be Merry" by Kevin Williamson: Jesus’ first miracle isn’t about transmutation of beverages—it is about so...

An ancient heresy returns again in support of political bigotry. From The Free Press : .... Like a boil on the backside of the body politic,...

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