"Knowledge is good" About E.D. Hirsch's most recent book , How to Educate a Citizen: The Power of Shared Knowledge to Unify a Nation : .... Reading is n...

"Saying something true about human nature" P.D. James is one of my favorite novelists and her series of detective novels, most of them with Scotland Yard's Adam Dalgliesh, are all...

Living in the past Continuing to browse through The Quotable Chesterton (1986) I came across this from Avowals and Denials (1935): We talk of people living i...

"Shadows cast by eternal truth" From Touchstone: A Journal of Mere Christianity in a feature called "Commonplaces." This one is a quotation from Ronald Knox (w...

Fairness Re-posted "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut: THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren't only equ...

Tender mercies From Alan Jacobs' newsletter this morning, a "'Prayer for Persons Troubled in Mind or Conscience' from the 1662 Book of C...

Rediscovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood Women in pastoral ministry is one issue in my belief system that I struggle the hardest with. It was a complete shock to me moving from Cap...

Living in the bubble G.K. Chesterton explains how we "shut out the real world" by associating only with people like us: The man who lives in a smal...

Who are we? I have no strong opinion about the larger argument in this post — I didn't really read it attentively — but when I noticed this paragra...