Tuesday, October 31, 2006

"Lesser" Friend

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When I started this blog, I hoped to have posts about Belloc, Baring, Benson, Dawson, and other "friends." That doesn't happen...
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Monday, October 30, 2006

Like a Chestertonian Cowboy

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It begins with a boy who was never a man and ends with a man who was never a boy. Thus begins the absorbing English-language debut of Arg...
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What's been going on

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As some of you may know or remember, I am in the midst of my fourth year of an Honours English BA at the University of Western Ontario, and ...
Friday, October 27, 2006

"Try one of mine."

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R.E. Smith Jr. writes from a pro-capitalism and anti-socialism stance in today's The American Thinker , and he makes extensive use of G...
Thursday, October 26, 2006

Fill your soul - buy books!

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A room without books is like a body without a soul. - GKC I am vice president of the Friends of the Gates Public Library. Like Friends organ...
Wednesday, October 25, 2006

Russian Friend

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I'm tight for time this morning, so I just offer this interesting snippet: According to biographer Brian Boyd's recent biography, i...
Tuesday, October 24, 2006

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I am now 12 days away from opening night. Although some of my actors are still having a hard time with their lines, panic has not set in yet...

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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