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August 2024

August 21, 2024

“Ready for Either”

Tracing the origin of the story from yesterday's post about the ox who is ready...

July 2024

July 31, 2024

Flame Ignites Word on Fire

The Catholic evangelistic site Word on Fire has posted an appreciation of the Lutheran rapper...

July 10, 2024

Solzhenitsyn’s Conversion

The Russian novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn's "The Gulag Archipelago" exposed the evils of Soviet Communism by...

June 2024

June 28, 2024

Agatha Christie and the Mystery of Mysteries

There is a connection between the great mystery writer Agatha Christie, controversies among Catholics about...

June 19, 2024

The Loss of Language, Culture, & Relationships

Language is what makes culture and all human relationships possible. We are seeing a broad...

May 2024

May 17, 2024

DISCUSSION: Muggeridge on Suffering

"Supposing you eliminated suffering, what a dreadful place the world would be! I would almost...

May 01, 2024

Tolkien on Vocation

J. R. R. Tolkien's short story "Leaf by Niggle" is a profound meditation on vocation....

April 2024

April 05, 2024

A Parable for Artificial Intelligence

To help us think through the implications of Artificial Intelligence, Trevor Sutton cites a parable--or...

April 02, 2024

Easter Leftovers

It is still Easter, and the season will last for 50 days. Here are some...

March 2024

March 26, 2024

New “Chronicles of Narnia” Movies in the Works

Netflix has started production on a new series of "Chronicles of Narnia" movies that will...

February 2024

February 09, 2024

Africa as the New Center of Christianity?

As secularism takes over Western Europe and as the United States is rapidly heading that...

January 2024

January 08, 2024

An Epiphany Miscellany, 2024

The epiphany of the star; the epiphany of the incarnation; a literary epiphany; and a...

December 2023

December 28, 2023

C. S. Lewis’s “Christmas Sermon for Pagans”

In a recently-discovered uncollected essay from 1946, C. S. Lewis explores the difference between pagans,...

December 15, 2023

Santa Claus and Grace

For both the journalist Kennedy Hall and author G. K. Chesterton, the figure of Santa...

November 2023

November 06, 2023

Monday Miscellany, 11/6/23

The Gaza War is spreading; the world is running out of (expensive) ammunition; Shakespeare's First...

October 2023

October 20, 2023

The Pro-Life George Orwell

Though the great literary critic of totalitarianism, George Orwell was a man of the left....

August 2023

August 22, 2023

The Beauty of God

Jonathan Edwards is best known for his hair-raising fire and brimstone sermon "Sinners in the...

August 17, 2023

The Vocations of Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy L. Sayers was a Christian apologist, a great translator and guide to Dante, and...

July 2023

July 25, 2023

Salvation from Being “Spiritual”

Today people claim to be "spiritual but not religious." Even many religious people seek to...

May 2023

May 26, 2023

Transgressive Art in the Vacuum of Western Culture

For some time, many artists and writers, having given up on the concept of "beauty"...

May 19, 2023

Luther’s Rabelaisian Humor

I came across several articles on Luther's humor--his wit, his satires, and even his scatology,...

May 17, 2023

The Evil That Considers Itself Good

This is the 50th anniversary of "The Gulag Archipelago," which documented Communist atrocities. Its author,...

May 02, 2023

How a Cat Glorifies God

Christopher Smart was an 18th century poet who was locked up in an insane asylum,...

March 2023

March 30, 2023

The Author’s Intention

Textual editors are scholars who restore literary works by recovering the author's intentions. That involves...

March 20, 2023

Monday Miscellany 3/20/23

Claiming that Shakespeare invented whiteness, the real Wakanda, the state's information war against its own...

March 13, 2023

Monday Miscellany 3/13/23

Forbidden words, the charge that the gospel promotes violence, the cultural conservatism of Native Americans,...

March 10, 2023

DISCUSSION: New Towers of Babel

Socialism, said Dostoevsky, is "one more tower of Babel built without God, not in order...

March 09, 2023

Artificial Intelligence, the Golem, & the Genie

The development of artificial intelligence is filling many people with alarm, raising a host of...

March 08, 2023

The Truth about Creativity

Creativity today is usually associated with "thinking outside the box," inventing new ideas by throwing...

March 03, 2023

DISCUSSION: Book Reviews

"Read any good books lately?" If so, briefly say what the book is about and...