Grantian Florilegium

While I am in England, I will take a brief hiatus from blogging--until June 1 or 2 (depending on the jet lag and the piles of correspondence...

Though London was for more than a century the most populous city on earth, it was also always a collection of villages. Each village used to...

My good friend, Ben House, stirred up by thoughts of English books and the land that has spawned them in great and glorious profusion, sent ...

Whenever I visit England, I will inevitably call to mind this very nearly transcendent prose-poem of William Shakespeare: This royal throne ...

In less than a week, I will be taking the Franklin Classical School seniors to England. A good bit of the time while we are there will be s...

We are enamoured of progress. We live at a time when things shiny and new are prized far above things old and time-worn. For most of us, t...

Horatius Bonar (1808-1889) was among the disciples of Thomas Chalmers that laid foundations of reformation and restoration in the nineteenth...

A single unattributed stanza of a hymn quoted in Spurgeon's Morning and Evening sent several members of our church staff on a determine...

"'Dear Pig, are you willing to sell for one shilling Your ring?' Said the Piggy, 'I will.' So they took it away, and w...

Author, commentator, historian, and teacher, Otto Scott quietly went home to be with the Lord on May 5, 2006 in Issaquah, WA. Otto was prec...