Tuesday, October 24, 2006

the 'My President is Dale Ahlquist' bumper sticker

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The independent fundraising effort for the American Chesterton Society is moving right along, and it has brought in, well, four dollars. Ah...

How To Infiltrate Terrorist Groups

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G.K. Chesterton wrote the Super Secret "How To Infiltrate Terrorist Groups" Manual for Dummies (but don't tell al-Qaeda): [G...
Monday, October 23, 2006

"a book to light fires in my mind"

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[T]here are 71 essays to savor in "The Book That Changed My Life," a compilation edited by Roxanne J. Coady... Coady says she part...

Busy, as usual

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Owing to the utter business of the season, I will be forced once again to postpone my content until tomorrow or Wednesday, unfortunately. W...
Sunday, October 22, 2006

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Why yes I have been gone awhile. It’s not that I don’t love you it’s just that a wheel barrel of troubles got dumped on my door step recentl...
Friday, October 20, 2006

Payday

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Friday is Payday for many people, and has me thinking about the writings of Leo XIII, Fr. McNabb, Chesterton, and Belloc in the area of fina...
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Thursday, October 19, 2006

Christmas in October

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"There is no more dangerous or disgusting habit than that of celebrating Christmas before it comes …" "Christmas" All Th...
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Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Wednesday Blues

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My apologies for the lack of posts today. I'm trying to get things smoothed out, so we have at least one post a day, but we still seem t...
Tuesday, October 17, 2006

My President...

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Well, you have probably recently heard (whether by email from Dale Ahlquist, by phone call from Peter, on Denny's The Book Den blog, or...
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"he does the stories and I do his letters"

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Do you have her autograph? "THE USES OF DIVERSITY" by G.K. Chesterton (1920) This book includes a loosely inserted signed autograp...

GKC on Hymns . . . Kind of

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Dr. Blosser invokes Chesterton to take a perfect shot at horrible Catholic hymns: "Chesterton says 'The Catholic Church i...
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Monday, October 16, 2006

Gilbert comments on "church shopping"

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Timely and all. "As usual, G.K.Chesterton summed it up. He said he knew the Catholic Church was for him because when he left his umbrel...

A Sort-of Chestertonian Crosses the Bosphorus

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Many of you may have already seen coverage of this, but if not, here you go. Beliefnet's Rod Dreher, best known as a chief proponent of ...
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Sunday, October 15, 2006

Martin Gardner

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Martin Gardner practically invented the concept of the annotated classic in 1960, with his first Carrollian labor of love, "The Annotat...
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Thursday, October 12, 2006

Chesterbelloc

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I’m sure many of the regular readers are familiar with this piece, but I just stumbled across it and enjoyed it: ChesterBelloc By Ralph McIn...

A GKC word search

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A bit of GKC fun H C F E L C O L L E B D T K O L V O I K S D U I T A L B M R S W C L Q E Q R H Z O E S E T C E K H L O I U P X A I B R H C H...
Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Lukewarm Soul

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Ken Trainor writes of his lukewarm soul in the Wednesday Journal (Oak Park, IL): Why I do, and don't, go to church .  Joseph Wemhoff r...
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New GKC Book

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Looks pretty good. G. K. Chesterton: Thinking Backward, Looking Forward: "Stephen R. L. Clark, a philosopher with a lifelong 'addic...
Tuesday, October 10, 2006

GKC and Wine

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My blogging column in the current issue of the National Catholic Register is about wine. Readers of this blog might enjoy it. Excerpt: Cath...
Monday, October 09, 2006

Thomas Bertram Costain

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I want to talk, briefly, about Thomas B. Costain. Born in Brantford, Ontario in 1885, Costain would eventually become one of Canada's mo...
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