I'm thrilled: God read my piece last week and sent me a personal reply. I'm copying-and-pasting his email below: ______________________ Hello, Talmage. It was wonderful to hear from you. As you can guess, I wish I heard from you more often. I'd like that. I daresay you'd come to like that, too. After all, the more you reach out to me, the more you'll learn to recognize my voice when I speak to you. I do have good advice for you. In any case, I'm taking the liberty of sending this to you by email to make sure you receive it. With respect to your essay: I admit, I chuckled a few times. It's the one thing people don't know about me—I do have a sense of humor. Like when I told Abraham and Sarah they were going to have a baby. That was a funny ...
In case you missed it, here's how the last seven days looked to Mark...
Rick McGinnis on a feel-good creature feature...
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Mark answers questions from Steyn Club members around the world...
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Programming note: Steyn's Serenade Radio Song of the Week airs at its usual time in the UK today - 5.30pm GMT - but an hour later in North America - 1.30pm Eastern - due to temporarily misaligned time zones. You can listen from anywhere on the planet right here. ~Happy Mothering Sunday to our various mums, mamas, maters and mothers in the British Isles, in Nigeria and in various other parts of the Commonwealth. We usually air this special a little later in the year, on the North American Mother's Day, but this year I thought we'd cut our Anglo-Celtic-Hausa-Yoruba mummies in on the deal. If you've been remiss in your attentions and left it too late for flowers or a box of Quality Street, there's always a Steyn Club gift membership, which ...
Mark in conversation with Artie Shaw and Julio Iglesias on a Cole Porter classic...
Question: What's the connection between the Muslim call to prayer and Fred Astaire..?
Today's entry to Mark's anthology of video poetry is a special birthday entry, in honor of SteynOnline turning twenty this coming week...
November 1922 continues with a new Caliph in Constantinople, an old Pharoah in Luxor, an absent Emperor in the bridal suite, and a lot of dead prime ministers in Greece...
Mark's contemporary inversion of Anthony Hope's classic The Prisoner of Zenda: The Prisoner of Windsor...
Steyn remembers Tim Ball, hounded into penury and death by the deadbeat Michael Mann...