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Christianity’s Home in Homelessness

By Casey Spinks|2019-10-03T11:26:07-05:00January 13th, 2018|Categories: Christianity, Conservatism, Culture, Faith, Featured, G.K. Chesterton|

Christians are called to live as pilgrims, understanding that home in this world lies in homelessness, albeit a special, holy homelessness… The history of Western philosophy may be but a footnote on Plato, but the history of the whole of Western philosophy, theology, politics, science, art, and the all the relationships among them—is more likely [...]

Pray, Don’t Worry, Be Happy

By Thaddeus Kozinski|2018-01-05T13:58:48-06:00December 29th, 2017|Categories: Catholicism, Christianity, Faith, G.K. Chesterton, Happiness, Liberal Arts, Liberal Learning, Virtue, Wyoming Catholic College|

A Catholic, liberal-arts college’s course of study, being an integrated one ordered to and by natural and supernatural wisdom, is an excellent apprenticeship into the contemplative life, which does not replace the active life, but only crowns it and makes it worthwhile… Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for [...]

G. K. Chesterton and the Death of Christmas

By Joseph Pearce|2019-12-17T10:19:13-06:00December 8th, 2017|Categories: Books, Christmas, G.K. Chesterton|

Each generation believes that Father Christmas is dying, but he never dies. It is each generation that dies while Father Christmas lives on. Father Christmas will never die because Christ has risen from the dead... “There is no more dangerous or disgusting habit than that of celebrating Christmas before it comes, as I am doing in [...]

The Obvious Secret of Education

By Sean Fitzpatrick|2021-12-17T14:31:52-06:00November 7th, 2017|Categories: Education, G.K. Chesterton, John Senior, St. John Henry Newman|

There is a secret to the art of education, but it is an obvious secret. Despite the whirlings of the world, education is straightforward: It engages the good, the true, and the beautiful in the context of basic and natural human interactions and for the sake of human happiness. As an action exercised by one [...]

“Gold Leaves”

By G.K. Chesterton|2016-12-03T22:13:25-06:00November 4th, 2017|Categories: G.K. Chesterton, Poetry|

Lo! I am come to autumn, When all the leaves are gold; Grey hairs and golden leaves cry out The year and I are old. […]

Heaven Is a Playground

By G.K. Chesterton|2026-02-20T14:58:47-06:00September 20th, 2017|Categories: Civil Society, G.K. Chesterton, Quotation|

"It is not only possible to say a great deal in praise of play; it is really possible to say the highest things in praise of it. It might reasonably be maintained that the true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground. To be at last [...]

The Shakespeare Scholar Who Crossed Swords with C.S. Lewis

By Joseph Pearce|2021-05-03T15:44:39-05:00August 30th, 2017|Categories: C.S. Lewis, G.K. Chesterton, Hilaire Belloc, Joseph Pearce, Literature, StAR|

The Shakespeare scholar who crossed swords with C.S. Lewis describes Lewis in the early 1950s, at the height of his fame, as “a red-faced, egg-headed, portly, jolly, middle-aged man, who was (like Old King Cole) fond of his pipe and his glass of beer.” Father Peter Milward Father Peter Milward SJ, who died [...]

Beyond Machismo to Manhood: The Challenge of Real Masculinity

By Joseph Pearce|2019-09-03T14:28:09-05:00August 20th, 2017|Categories: Culture, Family, G.K. Chesterton, Joseph Pearce, Marriage, William Shakespeare|

Machismo is the failure to grow into the fullness of what it means to be a man. The mark of machismo is the boast and braggadocio of the braggart. It is the mask of pride, worn by those who lack humility… Once upon a time, when I was a boy, I recall watching a Western [...]

What Is Capitalism and Where Did It Start?

By Joseph Pearce|2019-10-30T10:47:01-05:00August 5th, 2017|Categories: Capitalism, Economic History, Economics, England, G.K. Chesterton, Joseph Pearce|

Trade has always existed, and rich merchants have always been a part of the economic and political picture, but merchants have not always been the rulers, as they are today… In a recent essay for The Imaginative Conservative, I claimed that capitalism had its origins in England. I had expected such a sweeping statement to raise [...]

The Return of Christian Humanism

By David G. Bonagura Jr.|2022-03-17T17:39:50-05:00August 3rd, 2017|Categories: Books, Christianity, Communio, G.K. Chesterton, J.R.R. Tolkien, Literature, Pope Benedict XVI, T.S. Eliot|Tags: 1MA, David G. Bonagura Jr.|

Even when addressing non-Christians, Christian humanism’s willing receptiveness of the supernatural opens itself to the truths of revelation and of the human religious experience, allowing it to speak intimately and truthfully to the whole person… The Return of Christian Humanism: Chesterton, Eliot, Tolkien, and the Romance of History by Lee Oser (University of Missouri Press, [...]

Beauty and the Imagination

By Aaron Ames|2022-11-21T15:41:36-06:00July 16th, 2017|Categories: Beauty, Christian Humanism, Featured, G.K. Chesterton, Imagination, Nature, Order, Theology|

The imagination is a gift from God, given in His own image, to conceive of a Glorious Reality that does exist, that we cannot yet fully see. Why is a sentence from C.S. Lewis delightful while an equally true statement by another, ordinary writer, is not? “I believe in Christianity as I believe the sun [...]

Turning Employees into Business Owners

By Joseph Pearce|2019-02-05T16:29:17-06:00June 28th, 2017|Categories: Catholicism, Christian Humanism, Christianity, Distributism, G.K. Chesterton, Hilaire Belloc, Joseph Pearce, Senior Contributors|

How do employee-owned companies fare in the wider economy? How do they compete in the dog-eat-dog world of business?… Many years ago, back in England and long before my conversion, I stumbled upon a book called The Man Who Gave His Company Away. It was a biography of Ernest Bader, a very successful entrepreneur in [...]

Rooted Clarity & Childlike Wisdom

By Joseph Pearce|2021-04-07T16:44:02-05:00June 23rd, 2017|Categories: C.S. Lewis, Christian Humanism, G.K. Chesterton, J.R.R. Tolkien, Joseph Pearce, Wisdom|

Taken together, C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and G.K. Chesterton might not be a holy trinity but they are certainly a holy triumvirate enabling us to see the world with rooted clarity and childlike wisdom. One of the most interesting and spontaneously thought-provoking questions that I’ve ever been asked in an interview was asked by an [...]

The Importance of Chesterton, Tolkien, & Lewis

By Joseph Pearce|2017-05-31T22:26:21-05:00May 31st, 2017|Categories: C.S. Lewis, Catholicism, Christianity, G.K. Chesterton, J.R.R. Tolkien, Joseph Pearce, Senior Contributors|

G.K. Chesterton had a profound impact on the visions of both J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, so much so that he could be said to have baptized their imaginations… Editor’s Note: Joseph Pearce recently granted the following interview to The Whetstone, a student newspaper of Montreal College, North Carolina. What do you see as your role, your calling, and [...]