It’s Pub Day!
Um, no, not that kind of pub, this kind:
Click on that image to order. Or, if you’re not yet convinced, here’s an excerpt at the Atlantic.
Please forgive the self-promotion — I promise we’ll be done with it next week, when we’ll return to normal programming — but today my new book is out!
A fabulous essay by my friend Richard Gibson on the potential and reality of Christian education: “The Cassiodorus Necessity.”
Speaking of friends! — If you haven’t bought and read Sara Hendren’s What Can a Body Do? I bet you’ll want to after reading Katy Waldman’s review in the New Yorker.
A few issues back I quoted a poem by the great Welsh poet R. S. Thomas, and here’s a fine overview of Thomas’s work and career by Jeffrey Bilbro.
Let’s tie things together — pubs, celebration, last week’s Scottish theme — with a rousing song from the Battlefield Band.