Welcome to Vespers, where we take up the last hour of your day.
A late-night webcast for the great ideas — the last hour of your day, spent thinking. Mostly talk, with a little jazz to breathe between the movements.
Pour something warm, turn the lights low, and stay a while.
The Scriptures
Slow, unhurried studies through the books and themes of the Bible.
Book by bookGreat Ideas
Mortimer Adler's index to the great ideas of the West, taken in alphabetical order.
A→ZFiction's Most Famous Passages
The great passages of the great novels, read whole and weighed against Scripture.
Public domainPastor Politics
The pastor and the public square — the mandate to speak, its manner, its cost, and its mission.
The two citiesThe Surprise
Sermon scraps and other things of interest to the Architect of Vespers.
WhereverYou Can't Pray a Lie
The greatest scene of moral crisis in American fiction — Huck Finn alone in the wigwam, deciding whether to turn in Jim: the two attempts to pray, the letter to Miss Watson, the river memories, and “All right, then, I'll go to hell.” A boy's conscience working perfectly, aimed at exactly the wrong target — and what Scripture says about a witness that can be taught to lie.
- A Wise and Eloquent Piety
- Create in Me a Clean Heart
- I Ought to Be Thy Adam
- The Severed Head
- The Emperor at the Door
- Being
- To Obey Is Better Than Sacrifice
- Father Mapple's Sermon
- The Compass and the Cross
- The Thief and the Citizen
- Beauty
- He Gave Them Their Request
- The Transformation
- Give What Thou Commandest
- Words Without Knowledge
- Astronomy
- The Portion Nearest You
- The Earthy Piety of Providence
- When God Gives Us What We Demand
- Four Hundred to One
- Art
- Remember Now Thy Creator
- The Bishop and the Candlesticks
- No More a Servant
- The Manner of the Dispute
- Aristocracy
- The Sowing Chapter
- The Ravens and the Lilies
- The Threefold Cord
- The Long Road Home
- Animal
- One Sinner & a Dead Fly
- Angel
- A Tale of Two Cities