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Snapshots from a Religious & Literary Pilgrimage
April 2019We travel under the pretense of being receptive, really looking for what we think we already know. Yet we are occasionally genuinely surprised.
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What Is & What Ought to Be
November 2018Man does not make himself. Rather, as Aristotle remarked, he is already man when he begins to wonder what he is and why he is as he is.
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The Optimistic Pessimism of G.K. Chesterton
September 2012A review of The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton, Volume 36: The Illustrated London News, 1932-1934
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Chesterton's Journey to Orthodoxy
November 2010Review of Chesterton and the Romance of Orthodoxy: The Making of GKC 1874-1908 by William Oddie
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What Is a Patriot to Do?
March 2004Review of The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton: Volume XX
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Adventure Stories
February 2001A history of British “literary converts” is a story of spiritual inspiration over the course of the “age of unbelief” that constitutes the full run of the 20th century.
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Distributism's Significance for Our Present Social Predicaments
May 1989Although Chesterton cultivated a streak of romanticism and delighted in excursions into fantasyland, the source and inspiration for distributism lay elsewhere.
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The Chester-Mugg Tradition
January-February 1988Review of The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton; Vol. I and Vintage Muggeridge edited by Geoffrey Barlow
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Chesterton: A Literary Babe Ruth
July August 1986GKC won not only a popular following but also the respect and admiration — if not always the agreement — of serious intellectual and literary figures of his time.
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A Chestertonian Adrift in an Ideological World
November 1985If you favor the cause of orthodoxy or tradition in Catholic faith and morals, you should break the close link that exists between that cause and the cause of the political Right.
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G.K. Chesterton’s St. Francis of Assisi
October 1984St. Francis was that rarest of revolutionaries: one impelled by love rather than by hatred veneered with the catchwords of brotherhood.
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Re-evaluating Chesterton
January-February 1984Alzina Stone Dale wrote the first of many books re-evaluating G.K.C. and elevating him to his deserved place in English letters.
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