Wednesday, July 26, 2023

Non-Entries for the Clerihew Contest

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  THE 42ND ANNUAL CHESTERTON CONFERENCE: Chesterton and Saint Francis gets underway tomorrow in Minneapolis.  I'm not attending.  It...
Tuesday, July 25, 2023

Joseph Pearce of Faith & Fantasy

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  J oseph Pearce continues to offer looks at Chesterton, Lewis, and others. In The Imaginative Conservative he published an article called...
Saturday, July 01, 2023

From OSV: The Long Journey of Lewis

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  Our Sunday Visitor has an article  by Russell Shaw about the conversion of C. S. Lewis,  "C.S. Lewis and his long journey toward Chr...
Thursday, June 15, 2023

Lewis Lectures - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis

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In subsequent lectures, the other books are explored. There are also lectures on other Lewis books. I have not viewed them all, so I post th...
Wednesday, June 07, 2023

Another C. S. Lewis Sighting

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  Amid all its pop culture pieces, Parade Magazine paid attention to C. S. Lewis! In the article "From Narnia to Wormwood to the Four...
Monday, May 29, 2023

Happy Birthday Gilbert!

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  Gilbert Keith Chesterton, born May 29, 1874. “The first fact about the celebration of birthdays is that it is a good way of affirming defi...
Saturday, May 13, 2023

C. S. Lewis Sighting

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  One of my favorite periodicals is the  St. Austin Review (StAR). . I just got the May/June 2023 issue, and it is dedicated to C. S. Lewis....
Saturday, April 29, 2023

About the Pearce List - Additions

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  In a previous post, I mentioned Joseph Pearce's Literature: What Every Catholic Should Know . Specifically, I noted what books by Ches...
Thursday, April 27, 2023

Father Brown Goal Met

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As a fan of mystery stories in general, one of my long-term reading goals was to read all of G. K. Chesterton's Father Brown mysteries. ...
Sunday, April 16, 2023

When reading Robert Frost (clerihew)

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  When reading Robert Frost I often find myself getting lost in thoughts of walls and trees and snow and roads, but never once of toads.
Monday, April 03, 2023

Inspector Javert Clerihew

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  Inspector Javert felt an insatiable desire for a chocolate eclair. But since the bakeries would not open until well after dawn he obsessed...
Saturday, April 01, 2023

They Made the List

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 Back in 2019, Joseph Pearce published Literature: What Every Catholic Should Know . He discusses a number of authors in the book, then, in ...
Friday, March 17, 2023

When did you ...

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A fellow over on Twitter posed a question: When did you realize C.S. Lewis and G.K. Chesterton were right about pretty much everything? I ha...
Thursday, March 16, 2023

Speaking of Clerihews

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  Over the years I've been fortunate to have a number of my clerihews published in Gilbert . The current tally is 50 individual poems. ...
Friday, February 10, 2023

St. Blaise

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  It's probably safe to assume Saint Blaise is enjoying Paradise these days. Martyrdom likely led him to eternal glory and not just some...
Thursday, February 02, 2023

Where's the Chesterton Biography Movie?

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In recent years we have been treated to biographical movies about J. R. R. Tolkien ( Tolkien ) and C. S. Lewis ( Shadowlands, The Most Reluc...
Saturday, January 28, 2023

Princess Diana

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  In response to some unkind comments about Princess Diana in the November/December Gilbert , I have only two things to say: 1. I was always...
Thursday, January 26, 2023

C. S. Lewis and Mere Christianity

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I bought my copy of Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis February 25, 1980. I know this because the receipt is still in the book. I bought it t...
Friday, December 30, 2022

Chesterton (and Friends) Reading in 2022

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Each year, I keep a tally of works read - books, plays, etc. And a number of those works this past year certainly fit under the heading of ...
Monday, December 26, 2022

Merry Christmas

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                 Jesus                came to save all,                the lowly and the great,                but chose to come as one of t...