The Guild Review

I have recently been reading through a delightful little volume titled Augustine Day by Day  (hence the recent post from his Confessions ). ...

A couple passages from Augustine's Confessions for your Monday: I asked the earth, and it answered, “I am not he”; and everything in t...

Earlier this year I discovered W. H. Auden's poem "September 1, 1939," thanks to an article in the Financial Times . The po...

Recently I have been reading Matthew's Gospel and I was really struck by the Beatitudes, both for their forcefulness and their role in f...

As you might have guessed, I am a bibliophile.  I collect not only physical books but also lists of them: favorite books of various genres, ...

Six years ago I wrote a post about St. Paul's admonition to the Ephesians to "hold faith as a shield, to quench all [the] flaming a...

The concept of a city built on a waterfall was first brought to my attention by James Gurney's Waterfall City (pictured above) in Din...