The Guild Review

A couple weeks ago my wife and I visited my family in Arizona. Among other things, we went to mass with them on Sunday, the Feast of the De...

Guy Fawkes Day, also known as Bonfire Day, is a curious holiday.  It commemorates the failure on 5 November 1605 of the Gunpowder Plot, a sc...

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, ...