Thursday, April 24, 2025

Come Rack! Come Rope!

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Our local Chesterton Academy did a production of  Come Rack! Come Rope! The play is an adaptation by Dale Ahlquist and Adrian Ahlquist of t...
Thursday, April 17, 2025

Gethsemane (C. S. Lewis)

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All may yet be well. This is true. Meanwhile you have the waiting—waiting till the X-rays are developed and till the specialist has complete...

Good Friday

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From The Everlasting Man All the great groups that stood about the Cross represent in one way or another the great historical truth of the t...
Thursday, April 10, 2025

Substack

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  Several of my friends were on the Substack, and suggested I consider posting on it. The platform is more for writers, and not for the kind...
Thursday, March 27, 2025

A Bookshop Honoring C. S. Lewis?

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Over on substack there is a woman who is chronicling her efforts to open a bookstore honoring to C. S. Lewis. Sarah Bringhurst Familia discu...
Thursday, March 20, 2025

The Poet and the Lunatics

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  Every year I make a list of books/works I will try to read that year. The Poet and the Lunatics was one of those books, and I just finishe...
Thursday, March 13, 2025

The Norwegian Chesterton!

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Last week, having just finished Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset, I wrote a post about hearing Undset being called the Norwegian Chest...
Thursday, March 06, 2025

The Norwegian Chesterton?

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  I've seen multiple people refer to Sigrid Undset as the "Norwegian Chesterton." I am not qualified to make such a claim. I h...
Thursday, February 27, 2025

Pearce looking Fierce Clerihew

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The look on the face of Joseph Pearce  was positively fierce.  As he was about to send his latest out the door  he suddenly realized he'...
Monday, February 24, 2025

Spiritual Electric Shock Therapy — Dappled Things

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Spiritual Electric Shock Therapy — Dappled Things : Why today’s writers need G. K. Chesterton
Thursday, February 20, 2025

Narnia Is for More Than Kids

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  I came across this meme on Facebook. It reminded me of not only Lewis, but, or course, Chesterton, who was a stanch supporter of good chil...
Thursday, February 13, 2025

A Political Clerihew - Letitia James

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  NY AG Letitia James was fond of targeting political foes with legal games. In a twist, this time she's the target, and there is an act...
Saturday, February 08, 2025

Jules Verne

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  Today, February 8, is the 196th birthday of Jules Verne. Happy birthday.  Verne, of course, gave us such works of fantasy and science fict...
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Thursday, January 30, 2025

St. Thomas Aquinas

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  Over on X - Twitter - there is a feature called "Grok." If you ask Grok a question about yourself it scans your recent tweets an...
Saturday, January 25, 2025

C. S. Lewis on Porn

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  In the most recent issue of Touchstone there is a troubling but thought-provoking article about pornography infecting our culture and tar...
Friday, January 17, 2025

Jack and Me!

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  On X (Twitter) there is a thing called "Grok" that will answer questions about you if you have an account and post. I asked: Whi...
Thursday, January 16, 2025

The Ball and the Cross

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  There are a number of Chesterton groups around the world. They engage in various activities. Here in Rochester, N.Y., the local Chesterton...
Thursday, January 09, 2025

The Golden Key - Chesterton Station

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  In a previous post I mentioned Chesterton Station . The show features John Walker as Chesterton, who is at a railway station where he enco...
Wednesday, January 01, 2025

Chesterton and Resolutions

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  From Aleteia -  Why G.K. Chesterton approved of New Year’s resolutions By  John Touhey   -   published on 12/31/24 The date that marks the...
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) ...