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The Weight of Glory
The Weight of Glory is a collection of speeches C.S. Lewis gave on different topics, for different occasions. It was my first experience of reading Lewis this way, rather than in a sustained…
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Obituary for a Stranger
I wrote this poem about a year ago, just before Thanksgiving. It was inspired by the news that a pilot of a small multi-engine aircraft had taken off from the airport where my…
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The Way of Ignorance
In order to arrive at what you do not know You must go by a way which is the way of ignorance. (T.S. Eliot, “East Coker”) So reads the passage from which Wendell…
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Tyrannical Consistency
“Its not just absolute power that the founders sought to guard against,” Mr. Obama writes. “Implicit in its structure, in the very idea of ordered liberty, was a rejection of absolute truth — the…
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The Memory of Old Jack
Andy is aware as always that he approaches a past much older than his own, that he cannot remember. But it is a past that, listening to Old Jack’s and his grandparents’ talk,…
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That Hideous Strength
The Hideous Strength holds all this Earth in its fist to squeeze as it wishes. But for their one mistake, there would be no hope left. If of their own evil will they…
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America at War
I discovered this book on the new books shelf in the children’s department at our local library. It’s a collection of poems compiled by Lee Bennett Hopkins and illustrated by Stephen Alcorn. To…
