Your choice of the thesis statement for your essay on the good life from the famous answer in the Westminster Shorter Catechism, “the chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy him forever,” … Enjoying God: Sharing with a StudentRead more
Author: Bill Isley
Memorial Day: Remembering Our Fallen
Recently, some students signed a fake petition to no longer recognize Memorial Day because it glorified “American imperialism.” One student said, “I’m not celebrating. I do not think Memorial Day should be a thing that … Memorial Day: Remembering Our FallenRead more
“Death Knell: A Review of Dorothy Sayers’ The Nine Tailors”
A badly mutilated body buried in another person’s grave, the theft of an emerald necklace, a cipher, French underclothing, multiple murders and deaths, bigamy, a massive flood, and the mysterious role of Tailor Paul, a … “Death Knell: A Review of Dorothy Sayers’ The Nine Tailors”Read more
Sin, Guilt, Confession, and Redemption: Rereading Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter
I messed up. A few years back, I read all the novels and short stories in the Modern Library edition of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s writings, except the Scarlet Letter. I had read it as a young … Sin, Guilt, Confession, and Redemption: Rereading Hawthorne’s Scarlet LetterRead more
Beauty and Christian Theology
The famed Swiss theologian Karl Barth once spoke of theology as “the most beautiful of all the sciences”[1] because God, its subject, is beautiful. Theological aesthetics, by which is meant reflection on the nature and … Beauty and Christian TheologyRead more
