Friday, June 30, 2006

Gord Wilson on the Chesterton Conference

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I received an email yesterday from Gord Wilson. We met at the Chesterton Conference in St. Paul, where we enjoyed a good conversation duri...
Thursday, June 29, 2006

C.S. Lewis, GKC, and fairy tales

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The fairy tale is a form of literature both Chesterton and C. S. Lewis enjoyed and wrote. Lewis’ fairy tale series – The Chronicles of Narni...
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He died a hero

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This is the sort of story that gets bandied about a lot in tall tales and urban legends, not to mention books and movies, and it is, as suc...
Wednesday, June 28, 2006

The New Gods concluded

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Rod Bennet offers up the fifth and final part of his look at the new mythology of man. The paganism of St. Justin’s day was soon supplanted...

Facts and Truth

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Dicit ei Pilatus quid est veritas (Jn 18:38) Alan's post of last Thursday, Still wearing my ID bracelet , sparked some good comments. ...
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Tuesday, June 27, 2006

The New Mythology

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Rod Bennett of Tremendous Trifles has been posting a series of essays about the "new mythology" of the modern world; Superman , S...

Summer reading

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Like so many people, I first encountered Chesterton through his Father Brown mysteries. Although I have gone on to read a number of other wo...
Monday, June 26, 2006

Maisie Ward on Gilbert and Woman

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Just as a brief follow-up to the last post before I leave for work, here's a noteworthy paragraph from Maisie Ward's Gilbert Keith C...

GKC: President of the Woman-Hater's Club?

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To hear modern thought say it, the answer would be a resounding "yes." After all, here are some of the things he steadfastly refus...
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More on the Young Chestertonian Front

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While reading coverage of the recent Chesterton Conference over at the blog of the American Chesterton Society , I noticed some references ...
Friday, June 23, 2006

The Detection Club

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Jane Dickinson reviews The Detection Collection , the latest anthology from Britain's Detection Club, in today's Rocky Mountain News...

A curious drinking song for your weekend

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Here's something light for a Friday. Those of you who have read Belloc's The Four Men should recognise it easily, and those of you...
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Still in the Clouds

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This is my first post back here since attending the conference last weekend. It was a great experience on so many levels. I finally met a nu...
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Thursday, June 22, 2006

Ignatius Friends

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The new Ignatius Press catalogue is out. Its new books section is packed with GKC and Friend stuff: The Autobiography of G.K. Chesterton , ...
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Chesterton and the young

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One of the things I like to do is to search at random online for mentions of G.K Chesterton. In a number of search engines like Google, Yaho...
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This post is brought to you by the word "bigot" ...

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Fr. Sean Major-Campbell from the Cayman Islands teaches vocabulary today (with a little help from GKC): The first word is 'bigot'. I...
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Wednesday, June 21, 2006

A Chesterton Experiment

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Before doing this exercise, please be sure to read Alan's article for the day, which appears just below this one on the screen. == Anyw...
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Tuesday, June 20, 2006

Conference Review

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Last Thursday morning my wife and I left Texas, leaving our children with grandpa and grandma, and headed for St Paul, MN, for our first Ame...
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The Book of Hope

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William Bennett quotes Chesterton in his most recent book America: The Last Best Hope : No small part of the denunciation of Columbus and hi...

GKC Maiden

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In 1985 the heavy-metal rock band Iron Maiden released an album with the cheerful title, Live after Death . One of the songs included therei...
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