Thursday, June 30, 2022

Amos

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  The prophet Amos became justly famous not for his cookie baking skill, but for proclaiming God's will.
Thursday, June 16, 2022

What's Wrong with the World

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  Chesterton Is Right About What’s Wrong With the World BOOK PICK: New edition of 1910 classic packs relevance today. ‘What’s Wrong With the...
Thursday, June 02, 2022

A Gilbert/Chesterton Clerhew Book?

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I got the online edition of the May/June issue of Gilbert - the print edition has het to arrive - and discovered one of my clerihews is in ...
Tuesday, May 31, 2022

Charles Williams in New Oxford Review

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In the most recent issue of New Oxford Review  (May 2022)there's a wonderful article about Charles Williams. Charles Williams in Letters...

Saint Matthias Clerihew

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The replacement Apostle Matthias was chosen by lot, not by bias. Alas, except for his selection. he's eluded all other historical detect...
Friday, May 13, 2022

Saint Austin Review and Chesterton

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  Anyone who frequents G.K. Chesterton event in the U.S. has encountered Joseph Pearce. He is frequently one of the featured speakers, and w...
Friday, April 29, 2022

Becoming Boethius: The Medieval Mind of C.S. Lewis

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Church Life Journal has a fascinating essay by Jason Baxter about C.S. Lewis as a medievalist. (And Chesterton gets mentioned!)  "Perh...
Monday, April 11, 2022

A Scottish Connection

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I n his autobiography, GKC explained that his mother came of “Scottish people, who were Keiths of  Aberdeen ” - hence his middle name. He no...
Friday, April 01, 2022

Be Alive As You Die

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“ A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it. ”      - G. K. Chesterton We’ve had a small late March sno...
Thursday, March 24, 2022

A Reflection on Andy Rooney and Chesterton

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  I’ve been reading a collection of short essays by the late Andy Rooney. Anyone familiar with his short commentaries for years on 60 Minute...
Tuesday, March 15, 2022

G.K. Chesterton Became Catholic 100 Years Ago, Drawn in by Jerusalem and Our Lady

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"On July 30, 1922, at the Railway Hotel, in Beaconsfield, England, G.K. Chesterton became a Catholic. In the absence of a local Catholi...
Monday, March 14, 2022

Tom Baker Clerihew

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As an actor, Tom Baker was more of a character than a heart-breaker. But I think his Doctor is worthy of a clerihew, even though at mention ...

Robert Burns Clerihew

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Robert Burns hid behind some ferns. He feared that he might be shot by the husband of an auld acquaintance he forgot.
Thursday, March 03, 2022

Judgment for Planned Parenthood

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  “God Himself will not help us ignore evil, but only to defy and to defeat it.”  I was recently watching Judgment at Nuremberg . If you hav...
Monday, February 28, 2022

Yikes

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On social media - a swamp I advise others to tread in cautiously - I've seen repeated debates over certain Catholic issues. Usually, the...
Friday, February 04, 2022

Patriotism and Sport (and the Olympics)

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  The Beijing Olympics have begun. I’m not a big fan of the Winter Olympics in general, but I have in the past tuned in for some events.   T...
Friday, January 28, 2022

Inklings and Dr. Who?

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Thursday, January 27, 2022

G.K. Chesterton and the Meaning of Education

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Joseph Pearce is on a roll.  G.K. Chesterton and the Meaning of Education| National Catholic Register : The tragedy of modern education is t...
Thursday, January 20, 2022

Tolkien, and Father Christmas

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  Since I have Tolkien on my mind (having seen the movie now), I stopped by the library and picked up a copy of  The Father Christmas Lette...
Wednesday, January 19, 2022

Tolkien (the movie)

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  I finally got to see the 2019 movie Tolkien .  At the time it came out it got mixed reviews, but some Catholic commentators noted that at ...