A Chestertonian Looks at the Recent Election

in the pages of Gilbert Magazine, and he is none other than our own combox regular, Sean P. Dailey. Me: I’m still bitter about Dale Ahlquist and Gilbert getting all the glory for single-handedly electing Obama by refusing to vote for Romney or Obama, when everybody knows it was really I, with awesome power of [...]

On This Feast of Holy Innocents

Lucy the Cuteness wishes you a Merry Fourth Day of Christmas! She also joins with Mr. Chesterton in laughing at King Herod:

Chesterton Knew How to Make Merry at Christmas

In the true Chestertonian Spirit, I offer the following holiday cheer:

Alleluia! Christ is Born!

The Christ-child lay on Mary’s lap, His hair was like a light. (O weary, weary were the world, But here is all aright.) The Christ-child lay on Mary’s breast, His hair was like a star. (O stern and cunning are the kings, But here the true hearts are.) The Christ-child lay on Mary’s heart, His [...]

First Things Indulges in a Little Gratuitous Chesterton Bashing

…in a piece that takes various Chesterton quotations that generally preserve quite a lot of common sense and then subjects them to flat-footed heckling for no particular reason other than being contrarian and jerkish. Much of the heckling works if you are into that sort of thing, sort of like a 13 year old’s heckling [...]

Hey Seattle!

Dear Friends of the Seattle G. K. Chesterton Society, We are happy to announce our second event of the season, this Thursday, November 29, at 7:30 PM at the UW Newman Center.  The G. K. Chesterton Society’s own Dr. Andrew Tadie from Seattle University will lead us in an evening of discussion concerning “Chesterton and H. [...]

The Chesterton Academy Students are Singing…

…for your support: To help them meet their extremely worthy goal, go here and be as generous as you can. The Chesterton Academy does great work. Plus, instructing the ignorant is a work of mercy. Looks great on the resume at the Sheep/Goat Exit Interview (Matthew 25).

What Gives Me Hope?

This Homecoming Queen and the school that roared with gladness at her coronation gives me hope: “There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.” – GK Chesterton The ideal American, held up for us all day long by [...]

Hey Seattle and Parts Surrounding!

The Seattle Chesterton Society is starting up another year this Thursday! Dear Friends of the Seattle G. K. Chesterton Society, We are happy to announce the start of the Chesterton Speaker Series’ new 2012-13 season! Our first event is rapidly approaching next Thursday, October 25, at 7:30 PM at the UW Newman Center. The G. [...]

Hey Bay Area!

The Bay Area Chesterton Society writes: We’ve chosen a new book to read for this year at our Bay Area Chesterton Society meetings. It’s called “Father Brown of the Church of Rome” from Ignatius Press and it’s available from both the American Chesterton Society and Amazon. Our first story will be The Chief Mourner of [...]

In Honor of Everybody’s Favorite Saint

One of many amazing passages from Chesterton’s beautiful St. Francis of Assisi: The phrase about his brotherhood with the sun and moon, and with the water and the fire, occurs of course in his famous poem called the Canticle of the Creatures or the Canticle of the Sun. He sang it wandering in the meadows [...]