This week saw the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth, and lots of people were writing lots of things about her, one even observing (correctly, I think) that she’s become a brand. One I found particularly interesting was, oddly enough, at The Gospel Coalition: “How a Christian Worldview Animates Jane Austen’s Fiction” by Deanna Rogers.
One of the best-known, and best-loved, works by Dylan Thomas is A Child’s Christmas in Wales. Jeffrey Street ay the English Republic of Letters writes about how much of Christmas, as exemplified in the Dylan story, is about memory.
Charles Dickens, his career faltering, went out on a limb and spent money he didn’t really have to spend on a short novel in 1843. Jason Clark at This Is the Day explains how the work not only sold out in four days and revitalized Dickens’s career, but also transformed our understanding of Christmas.
Anthony Esolen at Word & Song has been explaining the origin and background of various Christmas hymns. This week, he looks at “It Came Upon a Midnight Clear” by Edmund Sears.
More Good Reads
America 250
The Pessimism of James Madison – Mark Malvasi at The Imaginative Conservative.
Robert Morris: Founding Father and Revolutionary Financier – Michael Aubrecht at Emerging Revolutionary War Era.
The Deadliest Seconds of the War – Dougles Dorney Jr. at the Journal of the American Revolution.
The Tea Rebellion: Boston’s Revolutionary Tax Revolt – Jason Clark at This Is the Day.
The History of America Can Be Told Through Christmas Trees – Meghan Bartels at Scientific American.
The Evolution of the American Declaration of Independence – Jane Sinden Spiegel at Journal of the American Revolution.
Poetry
“Noel,” poem by J.R.R. Tolkien – D.S. Martin at Kingdom Poets.
Once Round the Moon – poem by David Whyte.
Smelling Salts – poem by Jerry Barrett at Gerald the Writer.
British Stuff
On ‘location’ – Annie Whitehead at Casting Light upon the Shadow.
Writing and Literature
Should Everyone Write? – Peter Biles at Mere Orthodoxy.
The Comfortless Suffering of King Lear – Luke Fong at Front Porch Republic.
Why History Matters – Elizabeth Stice at Mere Orthodoxy reviews History Matters by David McCullough.
Faith
The Scopes Trial at 100: Fact, Fiction, and the Christian Historian – Nathan Finn at The Gospel Coalition.
Marketing as Stewardship – Nick Aumiller at Mere Orthodoxy.
The Rising Tide of Islam – Alan Schlemon at Stand to Reason.
You Are in the Circumstances in Which You Can Best Serve—Tim Challies.
The Ghost of Christmas Never – Samuel D. James at Digital Liturgies.
Life and Culture
Our terror model is obsolete – Emma Schubart at The Critic Magazine.
News Media
How the Media Shape Our Thinking – Christopher Rufo.
Holy Forever (Christmas Version) – Jessie Harris and Gateway Worship
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