Faith, Fiction, Friends

No, Taylor Swift is not Mary Shelley – Henry Oliver at The Common Reader.    Left in the Rain  – poem by Renee Emerson at Story Warren.   Re...

Words, words, words: On the Bard’s 400-hundred-year legacy – Amit Majmudar at  New Criterion .  Memory  – poem by G.K. Chesterton at The Ima...

Everything about  G.K. Chesterton  (1874-1936) seems to have been oversized. He was famous for his physical size. His literary insights...

I’ve been reading the Sidney Chambers mysteries by James Runcie, a series of books on an Anglican vicar near Cambridge in the 1950s and...

In   A Million Little Ways: Uncover the Art You Made to Live , author Emily Freeman quotes G.K. Chesterton on the difference between po...

I can pinpoint the year I first read Flannery O’Connor . It was 1976, I was 24 going on 25, and a new person had joined the Public Aff...

A favorite Christmas poem of mine is by a favorite writer of mine, Gilbert Keith (G.K.) Chesterton . Chesterton (1874-1936) was likely th...

I first encountered G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936) in the Father Brown mystery stories and The Man Who Was Thursday . There my acquaintance s...