Quote for the Week

You can do more than pray AFTER you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray UNTIL you have prayed. Prayer is striking the winning blow. Service is gathering up the results. – Dutch Sheets

On the Reading of Old Books

I think C.S. Lewis wrote an essay with that title once. So I decided to borrow it.
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I was thinking, the other day, about the Classics. You all make your children read them during the school year, and maybe even over the summer. And I bet you’ve all heard some complaint to the effect of, “Why [...]