Saturday, April 26, 2025

Saturday Good Reads - April 26, 2025


Something strange is afoot –
 Gen Z is flocking to church. It’ not only happening in the United States (where the return appears to be led by young men) but also in Britain, where it’s being called “a very British revival.” 

The outcome of the American Revolution was a very near thing, and there were many times when all looked lost and the British would regain control. But things happened; in some cases, they were very small things. Sam Negus at Law & Liberty looks at the “Contingency in the American Revolution.”

 

For centuries, scholars have believed that William Shakespeare abandoned his family in Stratford while he went to seek fame and fortune in London. New evidence suggests that this isn’t really what happened, and that Shakespeare and his wife Anne Hathaway had a much stronger and better marriage that previously believed. 

 

Faith

 

Bid Adieu. Machen was right – Nathan Eshelman at Gentle Reformation.

 

Amid the chaos and the night of man: From The Hundredfold: Songs for the Lord – Anthony Esolen at Word & Song.

 

What We Miss When We Skip the Prophets – Ryan Higginbottom at Knowable Word.


News Media

 

A new media order is emerging: Journalism isn’t dead. It’s on Substack – Hamish McKenzie at The Substack Pot.

 

Poetry

 

“The Listeners,” poem by Walter de la Mare – Sally Thomas at Poems Ancient and Modern.

 

John Neihardt’s Epic ‘Cycle of the West’: Uncovering America’s Forgotten Poet, Part 1Part 2, and Part 3 – Andrew Benson Brown at Classical Poets Live.

 

A Widower – Amit Majmudar at Literary Matters.

 

Veils – Tyler Rogness at Rabbit Room Poetry.

 

“Channel Firing,” poem by Thomas Hardy – Joseph Bottum at Poems Ancient and Modern.


“Re-reading Katherine Mansfield’s Bliss and Other Stories,” poem by Douglas Dunn – Andrew Roycroft at New Grub Street.

 

American Stuff

 

Don Sickles Returns to Gettysburg for the Last Time – John L. Hopkins at Emerging Civil War.

 

Writing and Literature

 

The Art of Adventure Covers – Frank Theodat at Pulp, Pipe, & Poetry.

 

America 250

 

Stolen or Gone Missing? – Journal of the American Revolution.

 

Paul Revere Wasn’t the Only Midnight Rider Who Dashed in the Darkness to Warn the Patriots That the British Were Coming – Ellen Wexler at Smithsonian Magazine.

 

Community Life

 

Garden with Children – Reid Makowsky at Front Porch Republic.

 

Culture

 

Princeton’s War on Civil Rights – Christopher Rufo.

 

Desert Road – Casting Crowns



Painting: Man with Moustache Reading, oil on canvas (1930s) by Louise Alix (1888-1980)

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