Thursday, December 26, 2024

The Chestertons and Christmas

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  Why was Christmas special to G.K. and Frances Chesterton? Maria Wiering/OSV News | 12.26.2024Section: Features ST. PAUL, Minn. (OSV News) ...
Thursday, December 19, 2024

For This Year's Christmas Card: Clerihews

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  Every year, I try to include some creative element with my Christmas cards. It varies: Sometimes a story, sometimes a poem, sometimes a co...
Thursday, December 12, 2024

Chesterton and Mary

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  For this Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, a passage from The Well and the Shallows :  M)en need an image, single, coloured and clear in out...
Thursday, December 05, 2024

Appreciation

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   “The aim of life is appreciation; There is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have ...
Thursday, November 28, 2024

Happy Thanksgiving!

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  “I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder” - G.K. Chesterton
Thursday, November 21, 2024

That Rediscovered Chesterton Essay

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  I recently heard about an newly rediscovered Chesterton essay, "The Historical Detective Story." Apparently he had written it fo...

Chesterton Station

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  Somehow I missed it, but I just recently discovered Chesterton Station starring the new official G. K. Chesterton, John Walker.  The prog...
Friday, November 08, 2024

The Post-Election Post (With Some Clerihews)

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  For good or evil, a line has been passed in our political history; and something that we have known all our lives is dead. I will take onl...
Friday, November 01, 2024

Skepticism and Spiritualism

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  For these days when we remember the departed, a Chesterton essay from  Illustrated London News , April 14, 1906   Skepticism and Spiritual...
Sunday, October 27, 2024

Helen Steiner Rice and the Heavens

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  “The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head th...
Monday, October 21, 2024

Southwell Again

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The latest issue of Gilbert includes a report on the Chesterton Conference this summer, including the winning entries in the Clerihew Conte...
Thursday, October 10, 2024

Chesterton's Detectives

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  Even casual Chestertonians are familiar with Father Brown. Chesterton wrote multiple stories about his clerical sleuth. There have been mo...
Tuesday, October 08, 2024

St. Francis of Assisi

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“Now for St. Francis nothing was ever in the background. We might say that his mind had no background, except perhaps that divine darkness o...

Lepanto

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                               Lepanto                  BY G. K. CHESTERTON White founts falling in the courts of the sun, And the Soldan of...