One Eternal Day

In the third book of his science fiction trilogy, C.S, Lewis converted his thesis from The Abolition of Man into a novel: In 1945, C.S. Le...

The most recent Five Books interview is about the "best books" about the sinking of the  Titanic . One of the selections is A Nig...

Former Senator Ben Sasse is dying of cancer. Today at Mere Orthodox y, I found this quotation from an interview . Ben Sasse: ...[A] lot is b...

A blogger I once f ollowed thought this a good hymn for Ash Wednesday,  "Come, Ye Sinners, Poor and Needy" ( Joseph Hart , 1759):...

Robert Duvall has died.  He was a great actor and was in several of my favorite films. Some years ago, at the beginning of Lent, John Nolte ...

Ten years after his death, why Scalia's influence remains strong, and likely will continue: Scalia was not just a judge but a philosoph...

On the anniversary of his birth:   Lincoln, age 28, in 1844: from the Lyceum Address delivered in Springfield: .... If destruction be ou...

Though the fig tree should not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines, The produce of the olive fail and the fields yield no food, the flock be...

From Augustine, "Exposition on Psalm 148": The subject of our meditation in this present life should be the praises of God; for th...

I very much enjoyed "Divided by a Common Language," about the differences between American and British English. Bryan A. Garner c...

Again, from the current issue of National Review , Charles C.W. Cooke, an immigrant,  responds to Vivek Ramaswamy 's definition of what ...

National Review 's March edition recognizes the 250 th anniversary of America's Independence with some pretty good essays. From Mar...

I grew up attending worship in a sanctuary built during the Great Depression . It replaced a building that burned down one Sabbath morning i...

From Gordon S. Wood's "The Five Greatest Words in the Declaration" : In the Declaration of Independence , the 250 th annivers...

A passing reference in a blog I read almost every day sent me looking for "Psychobabble that shields the seriously selfish," a 1...

From a review of Storyteller: The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson : Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–94) belongs at the head of a select company...

I've been reading history for a very long time. I love this sort of thing. On an ancient Jewish historian and what he may have written a...

I can remember being so engrossed in a book that I was unaware of my surroundings or of the passage of time. A book can transport you somewh...

When my father died, I asked the pastor to use scriptures that remind us of the hope we have. They are scriptures used for the funeral of a ...

Re-posted. Modern Heresies is a book I found in the Milton College Library. I was an undergraduate, and my work-study job was shelving boo...