Friday, May 24, 2024

Joseph Pearce's Poetry List

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  Joseph Pearce shows up in the strangest places. I used to teach at a classical education school. Although I'm now retired, I still get...
Saturday, May 18, 2024

The Books Have Arrived!

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Okay, as if it didn't already have too many books (Too many books? Is there such a thing?) two more waiting at my front door this mornin...

The latest Saint Austin Review: Chesterton!

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  The always delightful Saint Austen Review (StAR) has come out with an issue dedicated to G. K. Chesterton and Fulton Sheen: Defenders of ...
Tuesday, April 23, 2024

St. Robert Southwell Clerihew

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  Saint Robert Southwell sat musing for a spell, then softly said, "It does seem a shame, Americans don't properly pronounce my nam...
Saturday, April 20, 2024

H.G. Wells Clerihew

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We've been reading Heretics in our Chesterton group. I got inspired: H. G. Wells crafted some literary hells. When it comes to romance,...
Tuesday, April 09, 2024

Six Clerihews in Gilbert

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  Six of my clerihews are in the March/April 2024 issue of Gilbert : As an actor, Tom Baker was more of a character than a heart-breaker. Bu...
Monday, February 19, 2024

Ten Books with C. S. Lewis

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  Thomas Salerno has posted a reading list inspired by C. S. Lewis.  While scrolling through Twitter (I refuse to call it “X”) a few days a...
Saturday, January 06, 2024

Tolkien's Sanctifying Myth

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  Tolkien's Sanctifying Myth ,  by Bradley J. Birzer in  The Imaginative Conservative .  Myth, J.R.R. Tolkien thought, can convey the so...
Friday, December 15, 2023

A Christmas Carol

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G.K. Chesterton’s “A Christmas Carol” helps us see the world as a child does Anna O'Neil   A Christmas Carol The Christ-child lay on M...
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Wednesday, December 13, 2023

Smirky General?

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  Attorney General Letitia James is fond of playing games. Her latest is attending a trial and practicing her smirk instead of showing up at...

En-Raptured?

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  David Jeremiah eschews the prosperity path in preaching about the Messiah. Yet part of his path is seeing how much money he can capture by...

The American Solidarity Party: An Option for Chestertonians?

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  The November/December 2023 issue of Gilbert , the magazine of the Society of G. K. Chesterton,contains a review by Chuck Chalberg of The P...
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Tuesday, October 31, 2023

Two Clerihews (based on recent news)

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Matthew Perry,  boarded Charon’s ferry.  As Charon pushed off, Perry was heard to crack.  “That parachute really WAS a knapsack.” Taylor Swi...
Saturday, October 14, 2023

The American Solidarity Party and Distributism

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  The American Solidarity Party is a relatively new Christ Democratic party that espouses ideas very much in line with Christian and Catholi...
Monday, September 25, 2023

G.K. Chesterton on why today’s TV shows are so boring

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  From Aleteia - Fr. Michael Rennier   -   published on 09/24/23 As I kept losing interest in "prestige" TV shows, I began to ask ...
Friday, September 22, 2023

Tolkien the Catholic - National Catholic Register

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Something from Joseph Pearce! Tolkien the Catholic| National Catholic Register : COMMENTARY: Literary giant’s deep faith, often overshadowed...
Friday, September 01, 2023

Vivek Ramaswamy Clerihew

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Vivek Ramaswamy is fond of making origami. As was shown during the first debate, some of his views are similarly pretty but light-weight.
Monday, August 28, 2023

How About a Little Owen Barfield?

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  Owen Barfield (1898-1997) was one of the Inklings, and was one of the people who influenced C.S. Lewis. Indeed,  Lewis once described Barf...
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...