Faith, Fiction, Friends

Wendell Berry’s Affections   – Gary Houchens at The Imaginative Conservative.   Wendell Berry (1934-2026)  – Jeffrey Bilbro at Front Porch R...

Benjamin Franklin is rightly considered to be one of America’s founding fathers. But there was also his son, William, who had an entirely di...

The Joy of Baseball – Daniel Darling at One Little Word.  Know your rights as an author and don’t get scammed  – Nathan Bransford.   Submerg...

  Glen Hansard Made Music Feel Alive  – Spencer Klavan at The Free Press.   The Antiquarian Bookshops of Old London  – Spitalfields Life.   ...

  Make do  – poem by Sonja Benskin Mesher.   One Tool to Rule Them All  – Brad Littlejohn at Mere Orthodoxy.   Two Ways of Looking at a Spar...

  The Spider Taketh Hold with Her Hands, and is in Kings’ Palaces  – Kilby Austin at Rabbit Room Poetry.   “Idyll,” poem by Siegfried Sassoo...

It’s not exactly a confession, but I have the textbook I used for English in my senior year of high school,  England in Literature . It’s no...

DCI Harry Grimm, somewhat “exiled” from the police force in Bristol to one in Yorkshire. And Yorkshire, even the idea of eating cheese with ...

The summer is unusually and rather miserably hot for York in northern England. Detective Chief Inspector John Shadow of the York Police is a...

Revolting England  – Joseph Pearce at The Imaginative Conservative.   Not-so-bookish thoughts about book clubs  – Kelly Belmonte at Bandersn...

Joe the Hero  – Mark Oppenheimer at The Dispatch.  A Wonder Is What It Is  – Nick Offerman at WNYC reads ‘A Warning to My Readers’ by Wendel...

King Charles III  will not issue an Easter message  this year, according to Buckingham Palace. He did, however,  issue one for Ramadan . A s...

This past week marked the 250 th  anniversary of how the occupying British army suddenly evacuated Boston. On March 13, 1776, after having a...

The Nobody Inn and Radical and Dissenting Newington Green – A London Inheritance.  Warch Pakistan Closely: The Other Front in the Iran Crisi...