Quotidian Grace

The prophet Jeremiah said that the Jews would spend 70 years in exile before the Lord would permit them to return to Jerusalem. Inquirin...

Our daughter is expecting a second child in February so there has been a lot of discussion around the family about names for the baby. Sin...

                                                                                 1 By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept whe...

This summer the pastors at our church are preaching a series on the Psalms. Each Sunday a church member has been asked to write and read an ...

  Although the title sounds polemical, Ross Douthat's book is actually a thorough, thoughtful and scholarly study of the ways in wh...

I'm in a nostalgic mood this morning thinking about Holy Week services of my past.  I grew up in a Presbyterian church in San Ant...

Yes, sharp-eyed Gentle Readers, the title of this book is Revelation s  not Revelation. In this short book, Princeton professor of relig...

Behind the Beautiful Forevers is the most disturbing book I have read in a long time. Although it reads like a well-written novel, ...

Judah P. Benjamin Some of you long-time Gentle Readers of QG will recall that in those rare times when El Jefe is not dazzling his clie...

This one's for all you Downtown Abbey fans out there! Below Stairs by Margaret Powell , originally published in 1968, is the cl...

I had the great privilege of attending the Fellowship of Presbyterians(FOP) meeting in Orlando last week along with several other members...

Just sayin'.......