He liked us, he really liked us!

"Unlike most eminent English literary travelers in America, whatever their political or ideological views, Chesterton actually liked the U.S.A., both theoretically and emotionally, and his grounds for doing so are worth knowing about."

Read the rest at National Review - Why G. K. Chesterton Liked America

On the Road with C.S. Lewis

 “One road leads home and a thousand roads lead into the wilderness.”- C.S. Lewis

Chesterton and the "superstition" of science

 

Unfortunately science is only splendid when it is science. When science becomes religion it becomes superstition. - G. K. Chesterton

This Blog Still Exists!

 

I just took a survey sent out by The Society of Gilbert Keith Chesterton. One of the questions listed online resources - and blogs were not mentioned.

Now I know blogs are often viewed as outdated. But they still exist - as does this blog. But when I decided to look at this one after completing the survey, I discovered no one had posted in almost a year - and I was the last to do so. Indeed, I had made most of the most recent posts.

When this blog began, there were a number of contributors. Each of them took a day on which he would try to post. I was invited to join, and I became Thursday. I liked that.

But I was not as consistent as I should have been, and in the last few years only popping in a couple of times a year. And the other members of the team basically stopped.

I will try to keep this blog on life support. 

The Problem With Prophets - Crisis Magazine

The Problem With Prophets - Crisis Magazine



Dale speaks!



 Pax et bonum

A Salute to Dale

Dale Ahlquist
peers into the fog and mist.
He is certain that somewhere out there
is an undiscovered Chesterton text awaiting his care.

A few clerihews

A batch of clerihews from early last year -

Genial Elwood P. Dowd
could easily mix with any crowd,
but those crowds would always tend
to quickly disperse when he introduced his "friend."

 

Alexa
seems to have a hidden agenda:
she'll respond to requests from you,
but sometimes also record what you say and do.

 

Ayn Rand
wanted to be a singer with the band.
Alas, her audition went badly,
because all she could sing was "Mi, Mi, Mi."

 

Geoffrey Chaucer
never drank tea from a saucer.
But this wasn't due to courtly manners, you see,
it was just that in his day England didn't have saucers - or tea.

 

Virginia Governor Ralph Northam
has reason to feel pretty glum.
How do you deny something that's come to light
when it's there for all to see in black and white?

 

Chris Cuomo
tweeted Mika from "Morning Joe,"
"Isn't it great we still get our pay
no matter what we say?"

Round up the usual suspects

For the 2019 Rochester Chesterton Conference - "whodunit?" - which focused on Chesterton and the detective story, they did indeed round up the usual suspects.

 

Be there next year!

 

Slugs might have an afinity for cheese

On the Road to Sainthood?

A good read - http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/st.-gilbert-in-coming-weeks-the-fate-of-g.k.-chesterton-will-be-known

Aquinas Clerihew

 

 

St. Thomas Aquinas
was noted for his reticence and shyness.
But crack open a bottle
and he’d expound at length on Aristotle.

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Touched By G.K. Chesterton? Here's How You Can Help His Canonization! | ChurchPOP: There's still time to help!





Pax et bonum

Bishop Barron on Great Spiritual Classics (including Orthodoxy)

Chesterton made the list!









Pax et bonum

Just wondering ...

Given the climate
would Chesterton have declared,
"White Chalk Matters"?

Ajax clerihew

Ajax
was a stalwart warrior during attacks,
but when it came to Achilles' armor he was completely undone
when Odysseus won.

A Bishop Explains Why You Should Read C.S. Lewis' Masterpiece "The Great Divorce" | ChurchPOP

Advice from Bishop Barron -



A Bishop Explains Why You Should Read C.S. Lewis' Masterpiece "The Great Divorce" | ChurchPOP

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Moses Toeses Clerihew

If Moses
really supposes his toeses are roses,
then I'd be inclined to think
he's had too much to drink!

(With a nod to Singing in the Rain.)

Happy Birthday E. C. Bentley

Edmund Clerihew Bentley was born July 10, 1875. A schoolmate of Chesterton, he created while still in school the humorous verse form that bears his name, the clerihew. Chesterton wrote some clerihews, too, but his main connection with clerihews consists of his illustrations for some of Bentley's.

 

In honor of Bentley, a clerihew:

E. C. Bentley
evidently
knew just what to do
with a clerihew.

Chesterton sighting!

In a recent opinion piece about sex, The War on Chastity, Russell Shaw cites G. K. Chesterton:

G.K. Chesterton got a lot of things right. Here's one: "The moment sex ceases to be a servant it becomes a tyrant." Evidence for the destructive consequences of tyrannical sex abounds in wrecked relationships, wrecked families, and wrecked lives.

Good piece, well worth reading.

Pax et bonum

Chesterton before God ( a cinquain)

 

G. K.
Chesterton stood
before the throne of God
telling a rollicking tale, and
God laughed.