Posts Tagged ‘First Things’
GKC’s Prophet Status Validated — again
Those words were first published in 1908, when the idea of animal rights and plant dignity and personalizing nature–all now in ascendency–would have been generally thought the product of delirium.
To Wonder at Not Wondering: A review of G.K. Chesterton’s Magic | First Things
What do you get when a self-assured doctor, an uneasy clergyman, a doddering duke, a progressive youth, a businesslike secretary, and an impressionable maiden are confronted with a conjurer in the parlor?
It’s a Dark Life
Never again will It’s a Wonderful Life be part of the national conscience as it was in my youth, and I predict that fewer and fewer people will gather ’round their TV sets to relive the movie’s unforgettable story of a man driven by a lifetime of broken dreams to attempt suicide on Christmas Eve, only to be saved by the intercession of his guardian angel.