Friday, June 27, 2025

Did He, Or Didn't He?

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  A page on Facebook posted the following meme: Being a trusting sort, I reposted it. Yikes. I got jumped on by multiple people claiming he ...
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Thursday, June 19, 2025

Blogging Buddies Go Bye-Bye

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  Back when I started contributing to this blog there was a team that posted multiple times a week. There were also a number of other blogs ...
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Thursday, June 12, 2025

Three Clerihews

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Three of my clerihews made it in to the latest issue of Gilbert : T. S. Eliot was not appreciated by the proletariat. "Those new-fangle...
Thursday, June 05, 2025

Ballade to Our Lady of Czestochowa - and Tolkien

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A tidbit gleaned from Holly Ordway's  Tolkien's Faith: A Spiritual Biography.   In 1960, Tolkien was contacted about about writing o...
Thursday, May 29, 2025

Tolkien and Anti-Semitism

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  The sin of anti-Semitism has been in the news lately. It was also a prominent issue during the life of J.R. R. Tolkien as he watched with ...
Thursday, May 22, 2025

Shadowlands

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  Every month, our parish has a movie night. Our pastor, who is a film buff, shows a movie that has moral/religious themes. We view the movi...
Thursday, May 15, 2025

Saint Tolkien?

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  I know there has been discussion of the G. K. Chesterton's canonization - though that seems to have stalled for now. But now I'm s...
Thursday, May 08, 2025

The Surprise

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I just finished reading Chesterton's The Surprise .  It was his final play, written in 1932, but it was not published or performed durin...
Thursday, May 01, 2025

A C. S. Lewis Poem

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I have long been a fan of C. S. Lewis. I read his fiction, his fantasies, his essays, his theological works, his talks, and others his prose...
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...