Grantian Florilegium

The celebration of the New Year did not occur on the first day of January until after the introduction of the Gregorian calendar in 1582...

“The Modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad.  The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated from each ot...

Often called Childermas, this day on the Christian calendar has traditionally been celebrated as the Feast of the Holy Innocents.  It is ...

This day, In sadness borne, We must confess: The Spirit of the Age Has crushed The infant in the cradle. And yet: O glorious yet, One day,...

Christians have celebrated the incarnation and nativity of the Lord Jesus on December 25 since at least the early part of the third cent...

I love Advent.  I love Christmas.  I love Epiphany.  I love all the holiday holy days.  And I love everything that goes with them.  I lo...

Gilbert Keith Chesterton was surely among the brightest minds of the twentieth century—a prolific journalist, best-selling novelist, ins...

Though he was doubter at first, the Apostle Thomas (c. 10-60) came to believe that Christ was not only risen from the dead, but proclaim...

Comfort, comfort ye my people, speak ye peace, thus saith our God; comfort those who sit in darkness, mourning 'neath their sorrow...

On this day in 1979, Francis Schaeffer gave an historic speech which would form the basis of  his landmark book A Christian Manifesto . ...