"Everyone should eat and drink, and find enjoyment in all his toil, for these things are a gift from God." — Solomon, the wisest man ever "There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person." — G. K. Chesteron "Christianity, if f… Read more…

I started rereading The Everlasting Man today, and I ran across this passage in the introduction. It's about what was wrong with the Church's critics in Chesterton's culture, and a lot of it is just as applicable to two kinds of Christian critics today, the ex-vangelical especially but also the post-Christians of the W… Read more…

When I finally read all the way through Mere Christianity for the first time last year, I recall being particularly struck by C. S. Lewis' brief description of what he imagines a properly Christian society would look like. It doesn't match the categories used commonly in contemporary American socio-political discourse,… Read more…

Prayer is hard. We don't the half of us pray half as well as we should like, and we like less than half our praying half as well as God deserves. Different people, however, struggle with prayer in different ways. To some, it's the sheer discipline that's so hard: when in my life can or will I sit down and devote some t… Read more…

Some day I will finish Ursinus' Commentary on the Heidelberg Catechism, which, at present, I usually read to fill in the gaps between books. I recently made it to his exposition of the Ten Commandments, for which I have been waiting for a very long time. It is as good as I expected, including important distinctions and… Read more…

I have long been skeptical of the category of "essential doctrine" used for determining precisely what a person must believe in order to be saved. The sheer variety of possible errors, their many possible degrees, and their countless conceivable motivations and sources make it almost impossible, in my opinion… Read more…

In a letter to a girl named Sarah, C. S. Lewis wrote the following about how to spend your time: Remember that there are only three kinds of things anyone need ever do. (1) Things we ought to do (2) Things we’ve got to do (3) Things we like doing. I say this because some people seem to spend so much of their time doin… Read more…