Waking Up
Why is waking up so hard to do,When the day is work and not play,And the bed is warm andThe room is cold?Why is the alarm hard to hearAnd the sleep so deep?But on...
Harry Potter and Magic—The Best I Have Read on This
By Alan Jacobs, of course, from the January, 2000, First Things. His last two paragraphs follow, but you really ought to read the whole thing.In this sense t...
Trying to decide if I should read Cormac McCarthy
Two completely unrelated quotes:“This gives his novels a relentlessness, barreling the reader through his gloomy worlds. If one theme is consistent to McCarthy’s ...
A Kernel of Truth at the Heart of a Story
“My job as a writer is to whittle my story down to the bare truth at its heart and then build around it the best illusions I can muster, illusions that support an...
Taking Things into My Own Hands
Grilling has been a significant delight now for several years. As my skills have increased (marginally, I know), I have desired to grill a wider variety of foods;...
Then We Prayed
I have written this before, and will probably write it again: Andrew Peterson is one of my favorite musicians and authors. We have most of his albums and all his ...
An Aid to Reflection
“Fiction is, among other things, an aid to reflection: a means by which we can more vividly and rigorously encounter the world and try to make sense of it, to con...
I Always Preferred Studying Alone
“At every institution studied, from research universities to small colleges, some students performed at high levels, and some programs fostered more learning than...
Trueman on Public Prayer
As are most things I read from Carl Trueman, this is worth your time to read the whole thing. Here is an excerpt.To listen to a lot of public prayer in churches i...