Chasing Hats

Dorothy Sayers

by Julia Whitfield

It’s impossible to do justice to Dorothy Sayers … she wrote some of the best mystery novels in the English language, most of which featured Lord Peter Wimsey. She wrote plays, essays, advertising copy, and poetry. She translated Dante’s Divine Comedy in the 1950’s; the translation is still in print.

With Apologies to Wodehouse

by Julia Whitfield

Becca Worley sighed heaily. “Josephine, I’m in a pickle.”

Menno Simons

by Julia Whitfield

In a quiet corner of Holland, a Catholic priest underwent a crisis of faith and conscience, which would lead him on a reformer’s path and give his name to an entire movement.

Martin Bucer: The Reformation’s Own Chesterton

by Joshua Clark

“When Bucer was thundering loudest against the papacy, when anathemas were on his tongue, you could always detect a twinkle in his eye and a smile at the corner of his lips.”

Katherine Von Bora

by Julia Whitfield

She was well known - perhaps even notorious in her own time. Ask most people today about Katherine Von Bora, however, and you are likely to hear “Katherine Von who?”

Composer’s Profile: Franz Josef Haydn

by Rachel Eyre

Franz Josef Haydn is revered as one of the most remarkable music geniuses of his time, but it is not merely his compositions we ought to admire; it is, indeed, the composer himself.

M. Night Shyamalan

by Tim Eaton

Every once in a while, Hollywood surprises you and brings forth a gem from its hidden depths. And when a director starts hammering out these gems one after another, you sit up and take notice.

Manalive

by David Henreckson

“Once upon a time there lived a man who was alive.” New Christendom Journal’s David Henreckson shows us the poetic worldview of G.K. Chesterton.