Posts Tagged ‘Christmas’
For Your Children’s Edification
Here is a combination coloring book, book of light verse, and satirical commentary, and (in all seriousness) not meant to be taken seriously.
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas to all, God bless us, everyone. Thanks for a great year of Chesterton.
The God in the Cave
There is something defiant in Christmas also; something that makes the abrupt bells at midnight sound like the great guns of a battle that has just been won.
The God in the Cave
Where is the Holy child amid the Stoics and the ancestor-worshippers? Where is Our Lady of the Moslems, a woman made for no man and set above all angels? Where is St. Michael of the monks of Buddha, rider and master of the trumpets, guarding for every soldier the honour of the sword?
The God in the Cave
The place that the shepherds found was not an academy or an abstract republic, it was not a place of myths allegorised or dissected or explained or explained away. It was a place of dreams come true.
The God in the Cave
And though no man heard it, there was one far-off cry in an unknown tongue upon the heaving wilderness of the mountains. The shepherds had found their Shepherd.
The God in the Cave
God also was a Cave-Man, and had also traced strange shapes of creatures, curiously coloured, upon the wall of the world; but the pictures that he made had come to life.
FREE Christmas Audio Download
Merry Christmas from The American Chesterton Society. Click for your free audio download of Denny Hartford’s talk from the 2004 Annual Conference of the American Chesterton Society entitled: Chesterton and Christmas.
10th Day of Chesterton: Thursday Bundle
This bundle includes an annotated version of The Man Who Was Thursday and an audio recording of Orson Welles’ incredible performance of the book, with Welles himself playing the role of Gabriel Syme
1st Day of Chesterton: Beginner’s Bundle
The Beginners Bundle! Christmas bundle – free gift with purchase! Introduce a friend to Chesterton with Dale Ahlquist’s two gateway books on G.K. Chesterton and an annual membership which includes a subscription to Gilbert Magazine.
Dale Ahlquist blogging at LifeSiteNews
The Nativity could not be a more contrary celebration in a society that has such a bizarre attitude toward birth, broadly unwelcoming, but often narrowly and violently hateful.