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“A Christmas Carol”

By G.K. Chesterton|2022-12-05T20:00:54-06:00December 25th, 2012|Categories: Christianity, Christmas, G.K. Chesterton, Mother of God, Poetry|

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 [...]

We Were All Wrong All Along: G.K. Chesterton

By Darrin Moore|2016-02-12T15:28:35-06:00November 27th, 2012|Categories: Christianity, Economics, G.K. Chesterton, Political Economy, Politics|Tags: Darrin Moore|

It has now been several weeks since we imaginative conservatives woke up to the nightmare that President Obama had been reelected. It is time we wake from our delusional daydream for a future conservative order. It’s time we realize it’s morning in America again and that we have been blind to the glaring truth that [...]

Big Big Train: England is Now

By Bradley J. Birzer|2016-02-12T15:28:37-06:00August 30th, 2012|Categories: Christianity, G.K. Chesterton, Music, Progressive Rock, T.S. Eliot, Western Civilization|Tags: Andy Poole, David Longdon, Greg Spawton, Nick D'Virgilio|

In the last of his Four Quartets, “Little Gidding”—arguably the finest work of art to emerge in the twentieth century—the Anglo-American poet, T.S. Eliot, offered the following: A people without history Is not redeemed from time, for history is a pattern Of timeless moments. So, while the light fails On a winter’s afternoon, in a [...]

Weaponization of Politics and the new Dark Age

By Bradley J. Birzer|2016-02-12T15:28:38-06:00June 15th, 2012|Categories: Bradley J. Birzer, Christianity, G.K. Chesterton, Politics|

At the beginning of his epic poem, “The Ballad of the White Horse,” one of the two greatest Christian apologists of the previous century speculatively proclaimed: For the end of the world was long ago And all we dwell today As children of some second birth Like a strange people left on earth After a [...]

Conservative?

By Stratford Caldecott|2016-07-17T10:01:43-05:00May 8th, 2012|Categories: Christianity, Communio, Conservatism, Featured, G.K. Chesterton, Stratford Caldecott|

G.K. Chesterton was once described as a “Conservative” thinker. He responded as follows: Because I want almost anything that doesn’t yet exist; because I want to turn a silent people into a singing people; because I would rejoice if a wineless country could be a wine-growing country; because I would change a world of wage-slaves [...]

The Romance of Conservatism

By Ted McAllister|2019-10-16T12:06:04-05:00October 31st, 2011|Categories: Christianity, Conservatism, G.K. Chesterton, Russell Kirk, Ted McAllister|Tags: Conservative, faith, Imagination, romantic conservative, Russell Kirk, Ted McAllister, The Imaginative Conervative|

In one of the great works of imagination, Orthodoxy, G. K. Chesterton declared that faith is romantic, that materialism is not only dull but produces a boredom that leads to madness. Humans are born romantics and they can never fulfill their better natures without cultivating an imagination that accepts and embraces mystery. The romantic lives in [...]

On the Vow of Marriage

By G.K. Chesterton|2016-11-26T09:52:24-06:00August 3rd, 2011|Categories: Christianity, G.K. Chesterton, Marriage, Quotation|

The revolt against vows has been carried in our day even to the extent of a revolt against the typical vow of marriage. It is most amusing to listen to the opponents of marriage on this subject. They appear to imagine that the ideal of constancy was a yoke mysteriously imposed on mankind by the devil, [...]

G.K. Chesterton: A Tired Democracy

By G.K. Chesterton|2017-06-28T16:07:30-05:00April 5th, 2011|Categories: G.K. Chesterton, Quotation|

If there is one fact we really can prove, from the history that we really do know, it is that despotism can be a development, often a late development and very often indeed the end of societies that have been highly democratic. A despotism may almost be defined as a tired democracy. As fatigue falls [...]

Death, Love, Mystery, and Myth: Little Words and Mighty Swords

By Bradley J. Birzer|2019-09-17T14:09:59-05:00September 1st, 2010|Categories: Books, Bradley J. Birzer, Featured, G.K. Chesterton, Literature|

My talk today is about death, love, mystery, and myth. G.K. Chesterton wrote some of most stirring words of the past century in his “Ballad of the White Horse.” The Men of the East may search the scrolls, For sure fates and fame, But the men that drink the blood of God Go Singing to [...]