15 Feb On discipline
“Brilliant! … And completely wrong!” It is for this line that I am, apparently, remembered by a seminary class I taught two years ago. I encouraged my impressive young charges to...
13 Feb More on beetles
My title this morning is another typical Warren conceit. Really this squib is not about beetles; really it is about something else. But this headnote is entirely between us, gentle...
10 Feb Reflections on Light and Darkness
The feast of the Presentation of the Lord recalls and retrieves the dawning of a light: a light that enlightens and glorifies. The light is Christ, the same light of...
08 Feb The Right Tool
Much as other porcupines, an Italian porcupine will be generous with his quills; one has only to come near and he will discharge several. Those who deal in book-binding, in...
06 Feb Here is a title
A controversy smoulders in the life of letters, of which gentle reader may be unaware. It may be detected from distant little whisps of smoke; occasionally it blazes, but far,...