Posts Tagged ‘G.K. Chesterton’
New issue of Gilbert Mag coming soon!
The March/April 2012 issue of Gilbert Magazine is at the printer and will soon be arriving in your mailboxes. And what an issue it is!
Happy Feast Day of St. George!
St George he was for England, And right gallantly set free The lady left for dragon’s meat And tied up to a tree…
The Unreasonable Virtues
Hence pagans had no idea of romance; for romance consists in thinking a thing more delightful because it is dangerous; it is a Christian idea.
Conscience: Friend or Foe?
Had Luther simply read G.K. Chesterton in his formative years, he would probably have spent less time sinking into anguish over the fate of the world.
Conference Logo T-Shirt Available Now
Gilbert Magazine’s awesome artist Ted Schluenderfritz has created a truly fun conference logo and you can buy it now and become a walking advertisement for the conference!
‘Manalive’ to premier at 2012 Conference
The 2012 Chesterton Conference will be the world premiere of the movie, Manalive, directed by Joey Odendahl and starring Mark Shea and Kevin O’Brien!
Frances Chesterton
Here is a photo of Frances, cropped from this larger photo of both Gilbert and Frances. I’m playing with Photoshop Elements 10 which I (Nancy) got for Christmas.
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.
Gilbert Magazine
The centerpiece of this special issue — literally — is G.K. Chesterton’s poem “The House of Christmas,” wonderfully illustrated by the late Beatrice Wilczynski.