Some Monday Readings

A Splendid Poem: Richard Garland’s Epic Flight – James Marten at Emerging Civil War. 

Mythologizing the Mythmakers: Tolkien’s “The Notion Club Papers” – Bradley Birzer at The Imaginative Conservative.

 

Burnham and Grant: American Jeremiahs – Geoff Russ at Modern Age Journal.

 

The Killer and the Harlot: Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment – Joel Miller at Miller’s Book Review.

 

It’s Never Too Much. It’s Only Not Enough – Greg Sullivan at Sippican Cottage on a childhood friend.

 

The idea of a college – David Butterfield at New Criterion.

 

Reform can’t make Britain Christian again – Jimmy Nicholls at The Critic Magazine.

David looks back

After 2 Samuel 23:1-7 

He looks back and sees

the sheep on the hillside,

the prophet with his oil,

the giant taunting the army,

the five stones in his hand,

the days of serving the king

who hated him, the king’s son

who loved him, the hiding

in the wilderness, the death

of the king, his own crowning,

the battles continuing,

the woman on the rooftop

whose husband he had killed,

the growing of the kingdom,

the son who rebelled,

the victories, the defeats,

the songs he wrote,

the prayers he prayed,

the God he served.

It always comes back

to the God he served.

 

Photograph by Liliia via Unsplash. Used with permission.

Some Sunday Readings

 

Be an Iceberg Christian – David Mathis at Desiring God.

 

Anne Bradstreet: Stirring Poems of a Puritan Wife – Tiffany Brannan at The Epoch Times.

 

What is the Biblical Way of Progress? – Glen Scrivener at The Gospel Coalition.

 

Should Christians Feel Guilty for Being Patriotic? – Sean DeMar at 9Marks.

 

Laugh It Off: Bearing ridicule well points to the wisdom of the cross – Elizabeth Stice at Comment.