10 Christmas Stories Every Father Should Read to His Children
When St. Nick drives his miniature sleigh full of toys drawn by eight tiny reindeer to the snowy housetop, and drops…
Why The Worst Christmas Story is Worth Reading
There are few Christmas stories that begin with a scene so ragged and rich as a threadbare, moth-gnawed Santa Claus who,…
Christmas
One Christmas was so much like the other, in those years around the sea-town corner now, out of all sound…
Gravediggers, Goblins, and How Dickens Discovered Christmas
Christmas has become a humbug. Mr. Ebenezer Scrooge was a sour soothsayer for our times. By and large, Christmas is a humbug these…
Our culture is attempting suicide
by Phil Lawler
When I read the news headline it suddenly all seemed clear. The story reported that new positive Covid tests were…
What Are You Reading This Summer? Excellent Drivel
Reading in the dog days should never be dogged reading. Just as summer is for recreation, so also is it for…
These Parables: The Two Sons
As the atmosphere grew tense in Jerusalem, our Lord spoke the parable of the two sons (Matthew 21:28-32). When the…
Coincidentally: A Cavalcade of Georges
Few literary conventions are more useful than quotation of Aristotle when in a pinch. He gives a sheen to what…
