A Tale of Two Cities: Read It Again for the First Time
It is the best of tales, it is the worst of tales, it is for the age of foolishness, it is…
These Parables: The Mustard Seed
By a delicate symmetry, the parable of the mustard seed takes up just two verses of the Scriptures (Matthew 13:…
These Parables: Tares in the Field of the Lord
I remember with special affection a certain professor of mine who once said to a prolific rival: “I see you’ve…
The Affair Must Go On
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a…
10 Books That Every Boy Should Hazard
Thanks to the adulterators of children’s literature, the natural anticipations when approaching forgotten classics have been skewed. Everyone expects that everything…
These Parables: Seeing, But Not Seeing
“The Kingdom of Heaven is like a treasure hidden in a field…There was a landowner who planted a vineyard…The ground…
Coincidentally: Crumbs of Synchrony
This is my last “Coincidentally” Column. And so, as at the end of a dinner party, I am gathering up…
Murder on the Orient Express and the Theology of Murder
Et voilà. The cold corpse lay in Compartment #2 of the Orient Express, stabbed twelve times, no murder weapon, no obvious…
He Is Risen! Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of Easter
Eastertide, 1894 marked the resurrection of a famous figure besides Jesus Christ. Sherlock Holmes, supposed dead for three years following his…
Coincidentally: Behold Your Mother
Among the things hidden from the learned and the clever are the glories of heaven. There are glories of human intelligence and…
