- Ben Myers recounts a tragedy
- Orion Edgar reviews Rowan Williams’s recent Gifford Lectures
- Speaking of RW, there’s his recent review of Michon Matthiesen’s acclaimed Sacrifice as Gift: Eucharist, Grace, and Contemplative Prayer in Maurice de la Taille
- Straight-talking Jeanette Winterson offers her take on why art still matters
- Matthew Milliner shares some course evaluations for Sermon on the Mount
- Mike Crowl posts some classic PT Forsyth
- Wesley Hill reflects on the problem of gay friendship
- A radio discussion about Satan in the C21st
- An excerpt from Alan Jacobs’s introduction to For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio by W. H. Auden
- Also, AJ’s response to Jackson’s ruin of The Desolation of Smaug
- Roland Boer posts some Mao on death
- Stephen Smith on Mandela
- John Scott offers a taxonomy of American whiskeys
- Ode to Joy [HT: Jim Gordon]:
Ben Myers story! Oh my!