The Nicene Creed is 1,700 years old this week. Dennis Sansom at Mere Orthodoxy explains how it came to be created, and why it’s still important.
A local note: St. Louis Patina is a site dedicated to preserving local architecture – and sometimes preserving the memory of it. This week, the posts included Grace Episcopal Church in our suburb of Kirkwood, which a few local wags refer to as “St. Roofus.” It’s a large A-frame structure, built in 1961 when the congregation moved a few blocks east. The original building sits directly across the street from the Kirkwood Farmers Market.
In 2017, we visited Two Temple Place in London, built in the late 19th century by William Waldorf Astor, an American who much preferred to live in London. It was open during September’s London Open House Festival, and it was an incredible place to visit. Recently, the Gentle Author at Spitalfields Life took a tour, and it’s decorated for Christmas. (If you visit London in September, you should take advantage of Open House, during which many of the city’s normally closed architectural treasures are open for tours.)
More Good Reads
America 250
The Continental Army’s Medical Crisis: Benjamin Rush’s Whistleblowing in 1778 – Haley Fuller at Military.com.
Facing Washington’s Crossing: The Hessians and the Battle of Trenton by Steven Bier – review by Sam Short at the Journal of the American Revolution.
The Battle of Great Bridge — Mark Maloy at Emerging Revolutionary War Era.
Lafayette and the Journey to Yorktown – Shaun Cero at Journal of the American Revolution.
Was the Battle of Point Pleasant the First Battle of the American Revolution? – Evan Portman at Emerging Revolutionary War Era.
The 50 Years That Made America – Max Edling at History Today.
Videau’s Bridge: An American Disaster After Yorktown – Joshua Wheeler at Journal of the American Revolution.
Faith
Learning by Experience – Seth Lewis.
My Top 10 Theology Stories of 2025 – Collin Hansen at The Gospel Coalition.
Loving Aging Parents Well – John Piper at Desiring God.
American Stuff
Freedom to be Bound: Religious Liberty from Moses to Madison – Ian Speir at Mere Orthodoxy.
British Stuff
Britain is facing a crisis of state legitimacy – Chris Bayliss at The Critic Magazine.
Writing and Literature
Miraculous Love: Gifts of the Magi” – Jason Clark at This Is the Day.
Herakles’ 6th Labor: Clear Away the Mind’s Chaos – James Sale at The Epoch Times.
Life and Culture
Revenge of the Climate Realists – Peter Savodnik at The Free Press.
Pro-Life Pregnancy Center Case: Even the ACLU Calls NJ Actions ‘Censorship by Intimidation’ – Lorie Johnson at Christian Broadcasting Network.
Russell Kirk’s Challenge to Liberalism, 1950-1960 – Bradley Birzer.
Maria Corina Machado: The Nobel Speech I Couldn’t Give in Person – via The Free Press.
Art
The New Faces of Anselm Kiefer’s Art – Melissa Venator at the St. Louis Art Museum.
Poetry
“In Drear-Nighted December,” poem by John Keats and “In Memoriam XXVIII,” poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson– Malcolm Guite.
Seamus Heaney: a jobber among shadows – Henry Oliver at The Common Reader.
“The Need of Being Versed in Country Things,” poem by Robert Frost – Joseph Bottum at Poems Ancient and Modern.
Ascensus Christi: A Piano Rhapsody – Paul Cardall
Painting: Self-Portrait, oil on canvas by Émile Friant (1863-1932).
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