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Orthodoxy
Finding Truth, Again
Published December, 1908
•
Featured November 8, 2022
G.K. Chesterton’s introduction to
Orthodoxy
includes this humorous and self-deprecating description of finding truth in a roundabout way.
Book Excerpt
The Marvelousness of All Things
Featured January 1, 2018
In the very newness of a very new year — or any time, really — we think it is only fitting and proper that we share some of G.K. Chesterton’s musings on the wonder and wonderfulness of very new people. In every
“
bulbous head three times too big for the body,” he reminds us,
“
there is a new universe.”
Article
The Advantages of Having One Leg
Featured November 12, 2017
Thanksgiving time or any time is a good time for our good friend, G.K. Chesterton, who brings his inimitable style
&
unquenchable exuberance to the topic of living with a sprained foot. Chesterton rejoices in his one-leggedness and muses how
“
the way to love anything is to realize it might be lost.”
Book Foreword
The Outraged and Insulted Optimist
Featured September 26, 2017
As we look at Wisdom literature in the Bible this week, one book comes particularly to mind: The Book of Job. G.K. Chesterton joins us to share his inimitable take on the perplexed and exasperated
optimism
of Job — who even in his confusion and pain never fully turns from God.
GKC
explains.
Book Excerpt
from
The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton, Vol. 2
Gentle Jesus ... Meek and Mild?
Featured August 2, 2017
As we continue to grapple with the ever-unfolding mystery of Jesus, G.K. Chesterton joins us to lend his own inimitable voice to the challenge. He contends that our common perception of
“
Gentle Jesus, meek and mild” is true, but incomplete, and encourages us to look into the Gospels with new eyes.
Book Excerpt
What I Found in My Pocket
Featured June 7, 2017
If you’ve ever been trapped without a book on a long journey, here’s a post is for you. Come spend some time with G.K. Chesterton while he rifles through his pockets to discover the treasures therein. In his inimitable way, he gives each retrieval from the pockety deep a link to the greater cosmos.
Article
The Little Birds Who Won't Sing
Featured October 4, 2016
In this a piece by G.K. Chesterton he ponders why medieval trades often engaged in rousing choruses that brought community and uplift to their labor while modern professionals rarely bust forth in song. His conclusions are, of course, Chestertonian.
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Spiritual Classics
Inconvenience Rightly Considered
Featured May 24, 2016
G.K. Chesterton invites us all to take a child’s-eye view of the world in all its mystery and adventure — even though that may mean transcending our annoyance at an inconvenience (or two) that is met along the way.
Book Excerpt
A Magical Universe
Published January, 1908
•
Featured March 1, 2016
In this
“
profoundly incarnational selection,” G. K. Chesterton suggests that it is a fallacy of materialism to see nature’s repetition as impersonal or
“
clockwork.” Instead, he muses, perhaps God, in his inexhaustible creativity,
“
makes each daisy separately, but has never got tired of making them.”
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